Wow. It’s damn cold here this morning. We haven’t turned on the heat yet because I’m stubborn and don’t like to turn on the heat until I know for sure the highs will stay below 65, and right now we’re still getting 70+ degree days. Since it got close to freezing last night, it is damn cold in this house this morning. My fingers hurt, it’s so cold. SO COLD.
So, I am drinking copious amounts of coffee and forcing various animals in the house to sit on my lab to keep me warm. And I put NikkiZ’s pink fuzzy jacket on her for breakfast.
I hate being cold. I hate hate hate it. It much prefer the nasty, sticky, gross heat of the summer than the cold of the winter. As much as I would love to live somewhere that had at least a few snowfalls a year, I really probably couldn’t tolerate a winter any colder than here in north Alabama. Snow would be okay once in awhile, but the cold? I’d be in a permanent state of bitchiness and whining would become my standard tone of voice. I truly hate it.
At least here we get the periodic warm days throughout the summer. We all have stories of wearing shorts on Christmas, or on New Years. Or what about that one year when I wore that strapless dress for Valentine’s Day and it wasn’t even chilly enough for a sweater? It makes it tolerable to have those days sprinkled throughout the winter. At least a few days guaranteed where no one has to hear me moan, “I’m sooooo coooooold.”
What about you? Do you live someplace that really gets cold? Do you like it or would you trade it in for our nasty gross summers?
A friend of mine says the town where we live has “weather with utz.” Or, “oomph” or something, I think it means. We get 100+ days in the summer, and a couple of weeks usually stick around (20?) ish…I don’t know my lower Farenheit very well - about -20C, anyhow. So we have a little bit of everything - and I’m always glad for the next season when it comes.
I don’t have any carpet in my house, so it’s all about the slippers and thick fuzzy socks!
Of course, my feet won’t be warm again until May, but I just have to deal with that
It gets pretty cold in Philly, although we’re in a valley so that (usually) protects us from the nastiest of the winter weather. I’d much rather have to deal with cold winters than nasty-hot summers.
We have snow already. This morning it is 1 degree Celsius, but it’s actually warming a bit from what it’s been the past few days. I live in Alberta, Canada. I’m at the stage of life where I am ALWAYS hot and sweating. I’m Hot, it Just Comes in Flashes! You know nothing of boob sweat! heh
Back to topic, I really enjoy our change of seasons, because it’s really obvious, and a nice change. We get things gradually waking up and turning green in the spring, the snow melting, then we have a summer (our summers are very sketchy…. usually sunny, but can really vary in temps), fall is gorgeous out here, crops all golden, leaves changing colors, and then if we have a winter with lots of snow, that is also gorgeous! I don’t mind the cold, but I hate the worry about driving in the winter. That, and shovelling snow, which totally bites! I could NEVER stand your summers! The temps you are having right now, are what I’m most comfortable with. About 72 degrees Farenheit.
Here in Seattle, we’ve left the 70 degree highs way back in late September. I think the highest temp we’ve had since Oct 1 is about 65.
As a transplanted southerner, I’ve been wearing a jacket to work in the mornings since just after Labor Day.
I’ve lived in extremely cold places (North Dakota), and I’m not a fan of sustained minus 20 temps at all. However, even growing up there, I’ve never been a fan of the extreme heat & humidity that we had in North Alabama when I was growing up either. I had always wanted to live somewhere that it didn’t get too hot or too cold. After 40+ years, I’ve found the place.
This past summer it got up to 98 in Seattle one day, but the humidity was only 37%. It was still hot, but my fan was able to keep me comfortable.
I live in Nevada, Reno to be exact, it was 66 yesterday and is only going to get worse and start snowing. I HATE HATE HATE SNOW AND HATE HATE HATE COLD!! Why can’t I live in Arizona
I’m further South than you in Texas so we get a lot more hot than cold. Although it can get pretty cold here sometimes. We iced over for 3 days here last January. It completely shut the town down.
I live near Memphis and we have 2 seasons - summer & winter. I would take winter any day but I like summer too
I used to live in Minnesota, which was bliss. I LOVE the cold. The heat is what puts me in a murderous rage, so as you might guess, I hate southwest Louisiana. It’s interesting how in academia there’s a kind of geographical/geocultural determinism. Universities outside the south generally don’t want to hire southern people — or rather, they don’t if they have the option of hiring non-southern people. If some place offered me a job that was still kind of culturally southern, like Kentucky or Missouri, but farther north and colder, I would go in a second.
I had to run outside with no shoes on because the shoes I wanted to wear were in the car. Well, I didn’t have to do it, but I did and I don’t think my feet will ever warm back up. Were did fall go?
I’m with you. Can’t stand the cold. I’ll take my 110+ degree summers over below zero winters any day. That’s what air conditioning is for! I lived up in Flagstaff for a semester and it didn’t even snow and I thought I was going to die…lol! Too darn cold.
Kansas gets pretty darned cold, and really freakin’ hot, too. We always bitch about each, but I don’t think I’d trade one for the other. There’s nothing like an ice cold beer and dippin in the lake on a hot summer day or like sipping hot cocoa after making snowmen. I guess if I HAD to choose…I’d go for cold. ‘Cuz you can always put more clothes on, but (at least for me) it’s obscene to take too many off. : )-
I was born and raised in Northwest Ohio which is the weather armpit of America. It’s just on the edge of Tornado Ally, and we’re surrounded by the Great Lakes which produces copious amounts of lake effect snow. Now in Cincinnati, it just gets cold, not so much crazy weather. Regardless, I wouldn’t trade it for anything.
It gets pretty cold here but I like it. I find it much easier to get warm than to cool off.
I am from balmy SC, lived in CA for years and years. Then honey got “homesick” and moved us first to MAss, then to Cow Hampshire. Ugh. Winter = hate, and much whining ensues.
Uch, you have been to Atlanta, you know what it is like…
But unlike you I like the cold, but it leads to constant thermostat fights with the hubby…
I also live in Philadelphia, like Fraulein N. Our weather is so weird, we’ve had recent Christmases and New Yearseseses that were really warm, but we also get SO STINKIN’ COLD in the later winter. I much prefer being warm than being cold.
WISCOSNIN HERE!!!
22 degrees this morning so I wore a jacket. I HATE HATE HATE the cold-snow can be pretty but the cold STINKS. Last year we had a brown Christmas-which is the worst.
Driving makes things fun around here…ice is the worst!
I WISH I lived somewhere warmer.
I’m a MN girl. It’s funny because, like you, we are stubborn about turning on our heat (below 65 is still quite pleasant for us; below 40… well that’s another story). We made it to Nov. 1 this year when we decided to turn our heat on because we didn’t like coming out from under a blanket at any time of the day. I love MN and the change of seasons (but have been sad about the lack of snow for the past few seasons).
wow-took a look up and say that i even spelled wisconsin wrong…
my brain must be froze..
Last winter, I actually had to scrape ICE off my WINDSHIELD. Real ice!
Also, if I’d left about 20 minutes later, the sun would have melted it right off for me. Even on days with morning ice (ICE!), I’d be sweating wearing short sleeves by lunchtime.
I live about 15 minutes East of Los Angeles. The weather, in one word, is crazy.
See, I would get bitchy and whiny when it gets too hot. I’m exactly the opposite. And I grew up in California where it often doesn’t go below 50 in the winter. Reno is much more my speed in terms of winter and I could probably tolerate a little more snow and maybe colder climate. I can handle cold. I can put on more clothes, snuggle under a blanket, turn up the heat. But I’ve never lived anywhere with central air and when it’s hot, there just doesn’t seem to be anything you can do about it. I HATE being too hot.
Do I live somewhere cold? Northern Wisconsin gives a new meaning to the word ‘cold’…..anyone that reads my blog will tell you, at least once a week I have to bitch about the cold, crappy weather. But what do you expect when you allow yourself to fall in love with a Cheesehead, for God’ sake?? The first trip he brought me to Wisconsin to snowmobile, sounds like fun, huh? It was -50 degrees, that is 50 BELOW zero….that’s the kind of cold when you breathe in? your nose hairs stick together, freeze and close your nose!! Jesus, what was I thinking? Give me hot, humid, sweaty, sticky, smelly, whatever - just give me some heat - love it!
I live in Chicago. And it’s cold already. As much as I WILL it not to be.
I’ve lived in AZ (too hot) and San Francisco. SF was good because it doesn’t get too cold in the winter, but cool enough you can still wear sweaters.
My ideal place is San Diego…doesn’t get too hot, doesn’t get too cold. You just have to worry about those fires.
I have done the cold of Montana, the damp of Seattle, the dry of Cali and now…I am in heaven. NOLA gets cold, but not the freezing cold….I love it….and I love the heat as well!!
Western NY here, so we get BELTED with the lake effect snows! So far I haven’t had to pull out the winter coats — we’re wearing our fall coats. And yes. We have fall coats — a bit more substantial than a light jacket but not at all like our heavy duty winter coats.
I was about to say that so far this year we’ve only had rains but as I lookout my window THOSE ARE FLAKES! My first snow of the year! It won’t stick as the low is only 30 and the highs for the next two days are in the 40s but still — SNOW! Can’t wait to take my little man out to play!
I’m in Chicago. I get the worst of both I feel like. I get freezing cold winters and sweltering summers. Oh, and it seems there isn’t a break between the two. Freezing cold to heat. I never win.
I totally want to move to Florida or LA to shake these ridiculous winters!
I have been a midwestern girl all my life. Spent the first 18 years of my life on the edge of the snow belt (just south of Cleveland, OH). I then decided that living on the west side of the lake was a great idea…less snow, but not less cold (I’m in Chicago now). I love the weather right now. Sun is shining, but it’s about 35 degrees and high will be in the 40s. Don’t get me wrong…my ideal is about 70 with a low of about 40, but I like this shift in the weather for a little while. Now…let’s talk about summer! I HATE August…it’s hot, it’s humid, I’m miserable. I specifically don’t live in the south for that very reason. I don’t like being hot. I don’t glisten like a girl…I sweat like a guy! So, that’s my take. Like the Fall and Spring weather…hate Summer. I enjoy winter for awhile (especially because my birthday is in December), but it tends to stay really grey here in the Midwest and it gets a little depressing.
Mmmm I’m enjoying this cold snap. Such a relief from the 80s we’ve had thus far. FuzzyHead has been perplexed by the long pants and jacket though - she thinks her clothes are too big.
Like you, I also live in the south. I love cold weather. I wish it would snow! But, no. It rarely does. Sigh…
I detest the sticky,muggy,icky hotness that is a Georgia summer. Bah. I think it is sooo much easier to get warm than it is to stay cool.
i definitely live where it gets colder than that! it was 32 degrees driving to work this morning here in omaha! and i’d definitely rather live somewhere hot than cold, but alas, the boyfriend hates the hot weather. and i do love me some turtleneck sweaters so it all works out decently okay. i just wish our house weren’t so old every inch of it leaked, because that makes it really hard to get warm even inside!
and our heat’s been on for about three weeks now.
I would happily take two winters each year to avoid summer. I hate being hot. You can add more clothes in the winter, but at a certain point in the summer, you are naked and still hot.
I’m from Darwin which is disgustingly hot and humid most of the year. We get cyclones and thunderstorms. I love it.
I recently moved to Adelaide which does this thing where there’s four seasons, and it gets cold, by which I mean under 20C (70ish F). Not impressed with that. They do have nice hot summers and beaches where you won’t get eaten by crocodiles.
(Adelaide? Hot summer? Ya hearing me?)
In preparation for BlogHer08, can I just say I am not impressed with San Francisco’s definition of “summer.”
We’ve got similar temps here that you get there, and I HATE using the heat - I’ll only turn it on if it’s going to get down about freezing at night. We’ve figured out that it’s totally doable if you have a good electric blanket for sitting on the couch (bonus is that I’ll cuddle with Spence, I’m not normally a cuddler) and a timer connected with a space heater in the bathroom. I have the timer turn the heater on about an hour before we get up, it’ll be toasty warm in there when I’m up!!
St. Louis weather: don’t like it? Wait five minutes and it will change.
I hate winter. Ours are pretty mild, though last year we got blasted with the mother of all ice storms, knocking out power to half the city. We also had a major thunderstorm that July that knocked power out to the other half. I was part of that other half — for four days. Four days without power! It was also suck your breath away hot. We get the nasty gross summers, too.
I live in Minnesota. But I have also lived in central Texas. I will take the freezing cold winters over the sticky hot summers anytime. When it was over 100 degrees every day, I was miserable.
i used to live in south dakota and nebraska and didn’t mind the cold so much as long as there was pretty/fun snow. but cold and nothing? not worth it at all. i always opt for heat. on the flip side: at least when it is cold, you can put more layers on or turn on the heat, but when it is hot? you can only get down to naked and then you want to die. espcially when preggo!
I live in lower Michigan. During the winter its bitter cold and during the summer is humid, humid, humid. Thanks to all the GREAT Lakes around here.
I remember last year the schools shut down because it was so cold, they didn’t want the kids waiting outside for busses. 2 days in a row that happened. Then in the summer they encourage people to see air conditioners because the elderly, and children will not be able to handle the heat. 
But its kind of a standing joke here that if you don’t like the weather just wait a minute and irt will change. Last month, we had the air and the heat on in the same week…CRAZY!
I grew up in Baton Rouge (Geaux Tigers!) and I LOVE the hot weather, and especially love stepping off the plane and being able to DRINK THE AIR. I went to college in Connecticut and we called winter “The Dark Ages.” Hate cold, bah humbug. Snow is okay, once or twice a year, if you are inside under a blanket with a good book and hot chocolate, looking out a window with a pretty view, before the snow plows come and make everything gray and slushy. Then I spent a couple years in Hawaii and dang, I want to go back! I put on jeans and a sweatshirt (with flip flops) if it got below 65! Now I live in San Fransisco and the weather, shall we say, is not to my liking. It’s gray, and windy, and damp, and it never gets warm, and it’s always too stinking cold to go to the beach. So I compensate by going to concerts and plays and other indoor things. Bring on the heat!
Oh, and this is my feeling on Andi’s comment. Sure, when you’re cold you can put on layers. But when I’m hot, I don’t feel miserable and want to die. When I get cold, I feel like I will NEVER BE WARM AGAIN. It’s just miserable. Especially when my toes get cold. I love the 100+ blog goal, I come back here a zillion times a day to see if you’ve posted anything! Yay!
I love the chill of fall and I actually love winter. (I don’t love the way people drive in bad weather, but that’s true too for the summer when it rains hard and people plow by me going 80 mph.) I can’t stand to be overheated, so I’ll always take cold weather over humidity and heat. In fact, I’m one of those crazy people who wears flip flops into the winter months (like this morning) until my toes curl up in protest and threaten frostbite. Only then do I haul out socks and actual shoes. (Keep in mind I’m wearing the flip flops + my winter coat, which is the fashion statement of the century.) I just turned my heat on about two days ago and even though it doesn’t feel dramatically different in my apartment, it clearly is. Three days ago, I was sleeping with two comforters and a fleece blanket and I was still chilly, and last night I had only one comforter halfway covering me and I was fine. I like winter (snow! Christmas! family! presents!) but I just don’t like the heating bills that go with it.
I hate the cold. HATE IT. And right now it is 64 degrees in my house WITH the heat on.
I am right in the middle of the country in good ole Nebraska. Born and raised. And I have to say, I heart the winter. I love getting bundled up and playing outside with the little one, sipping hot chocolate…the only thing I hate, hate, hate–getting up in the morning and hitting that first blast of cold air. That stinks. Otherwise, don’t know what I would do without my winters.
I feel you sister. I HATE the cold, but I live in Ohio - where I can’t escape it. I would so much prefer gross summer all year long. I live for the sun and so now, it is cold AND dark here. I wish I could just go into my room and sleep until the sun comes back.
We moved to Nashville this summer. I suffered through several weeks of 100+ degrees hoping for a pay off later in the year. Today? I finally had to break down and turn on the heat. It is freaking cold here today and it is making me cranky.
Give me the heat and humidity any day…I live in Northeast PA and its so cold here already I can’t stand it. I hate winter, hate the cold, despise snow and can’t wait until we can retire to a warmer climate!
I tried living in a warmer state for a year and a half…thought I’d love it, but no. I’m too much of a New England person to enjoy a meltingly hot summer!
Here just outside of Chicago, we get the worst of both worlds. Extremely hot summers and extremely cold winters. Every year at about this time, I wonder why I haven’t moved somewhere more temperate.
Well, I live in Alaska. Does that count? Yes, it gets chilly up here. But, after the first year, your body adjusts and anything over 50 degrees feels really hot. I went to Pheonix last month and I was sick when I got off the plane. I can’t handle the heat. My hubby gets heat rashes at 70 degrees. And, true Alaskans break out their shorts as soon as the temp hits 40.
I live in Finland. Nuff said!
It’s a love/hate thing…
I live in the DC burbs - freakin’ hot summers, cold winters, snow, 90% humidity - we get it all. I don’t like the extreme cold, or the ice storms we get (ice skating in the car isn’t fun, neither is the abrupt stop at the end), but that said, I can always add more layers or turn up the heat - I can’t take more off when my brain is baking and I can’t think. I LOVE the fall, so I’m climatologically (is that a word?) quite happy at the moment.
I live in the central mountains of New Mexico about 20 miles from a ski resort. We get winter but not crazy like up North. I don’t mind the snow that much as long as I can drive on the roads and it’s not to icy. I grew up in West Texas where 120 in the summer is normal so it was a big adjustment but now I rarely wear long sleeves or a jacket. Your body adjusts to it after a year or so. I’m loving Fall right now because we are still having beautiful weather. A lot of years we’ve had snow by now. I’m wondering what your low was this morning? Ours was 23 when I got up at 7am.
I do love the cold, but I need to be able to be kept warm.. There’s nothing like a snowy day where you come in and snuggle up on the couch with a blanket and some hot chocolate. Here in NY we do get cold in the winters, but when they had my baby shower in the middle of January last year it was 70 degrees outside, so it’s hit or miss.
Colorado - In one weekend it was 79 on Saturday and 39 on Sunday. I was in Houston last weekend and loved it. But that’s because it’s winter there and only 80 degrees and 50% humidity as opposed to the summer where it’s like living on the sun.
It can get fairly cold in the UK, but doesn’t get much below -0 in the wintertime,not like in Noway when below 20- is normal. I think my lungs would shiut down from shock if I lived there.
When I was a wee kids we lived in this old, old cottage made out of stone, we didn’t have central heating and my mother had to make the fire very morning out of coal and kindling wood in the fireplace. Once I remember waking up in the winter and there was ice an inch thick on the insides of the window pane. Jack Frost has been and there were beautiful patterns in the ice of grass and flowers. Just amazing. Think of all the kids now who neer get to see Jack Frost’s artwork?
Also Im only a year older than you, just incase you think I’m an old, old lady.
I might be the only person on earth who loves Chicago winters. I love how quiet the streets get when it’s gusting and no one wants to be outside. I love how funny it is when I accidentally lose the dog in a snowdrift. I love scarves, and mittens, and hot chocolate, and hats with pom pons on top of them. Last year, it got so cold my iPod actually stopped working on my way to the office. I would give ANYTHING to get rid of our awful, humid summers and have a year full of autumn and winter! The colder, the better.
That being said, we’ve been having a warm spell this year- it just hit the forties this week, and I finally switched my winter clothing into my closet. Woohoo! Sweater time!
I really hate the cold too. The worst are the days when the high is, like, 8. Those days suck donkey butt. However, we do get a smattering of sunny (if not warm) days throughout the winter that makes it almost bearable. If it weren’t for the desire to live close to lots of family, we would be moving to a warmer state in a heartbeat.
I think that snow actually makes it feel LESS cold. I’m a fan of all the seasons.
I love the seasons but the cold does get to me, lol. I live about 50 miles south of Chicago and it’s pretty frosty here nowadays in the morning hours, lol. No ice yet… but it’s getting close, lol.
And you are not alone I have not really turned on my heat yet either. Only twice so far for 45 minutes each time. But I won’t turn it on and leave it on yet… soon I’ll have to… but not yet, lol.
Ohhh BTW… how is it that you and may other bloggers I know have so many comments, lol. I get anywhere from 50-200 visitors to my blog a day… but only a handful of comments a week…
What’s the secret, lol
I’m very disappointed that after the unseasonably high temperatures in NYC of late, we are now below average. And they are predicting snow flurries on Friday. Ugh!
P.S. I was sick yesterday, so please don’t grow concerned as I read through all the posts I missed.
I’m with you….I HATE the cold. It was 42 degrees F when I left for work this morning. It was in the low 30’s last night. It did get up to 64 during the day. Like you, we have the periodic warm days which makes things alot easier to take.
I wouldn’t be able to live in a place that got really cold either. I’m too much of a wimp.
I despise the cold. Why I live in PA, I’m not sure. I just had the bad luck to be born here and feel rooted by now. It truly sucks. This would be why I like to plan my trips to Disney in the winter. It’s a beautiful thing to leave weather in the teens and peel off the layers the further south I drive and to arrive in Orlando in 80 degree weather. Beautiful thing.
Grew up in Mississippi. Moved “up north” to North Carolina. I so love the seasons, but most of all, I love the cold. I love never running the AC on Christmas day. I love that there are periods of time that there is no boob sweat. I love that people think it is humid here, and they have NO idea what humid really is.
Bring on the cold. I can always put on more clothes. You can only get so nekkid.
I am the exact opposite of you - I HATE the hot weather - fortunately, here in Saskatchewan, the hot usually only lasts for a few months and then we are back to winter (OK, that is a bit of an exagerration - we do not have winter for 10 months a year - maybe only for five or six). Other people I know look forward to their trips south in the winter to get away from the cold - I look forward to visiting otherwise hot places during the winter so that I can enjoy their coolest possible temperatures. My theory on heat is that I can always get warmer - another sweater, a hat, a warm blanket as I curl up on the couch, but when you are hot - there is nothing that can be done - you can only get so naked.