I love winter, but I've never had one.

[TheRealWC]

I've only ever lived in South Carolina, so I feel like driving in a snowy winter would scare me. My town basically flips out when there's a few inches of snow like once every two years; I can't imagine a few feet!

I'll take my hot weather and 40-50 degree winters. November - March are really pretty temperate in South Carolina and rarely go below 30 degrees. It does rain a lot though because of the humid climate.

 

[EpicGamer12]

Actually, I like leaveless trees, and grey, dark, cloudy days. As I've mentioned before, sunny, hot days make me feel sick, and angry.

What is the reason your town was shut down?

Usually it's from too much snow piled up so it's impossible to travel, power outages from blizzards. Sometimes it can take days to properly clear everything in some places in the world.

Also, the winter is the brightest season of the year in a way. The glare of the sun on iced over snow is blinding!

 

[Bizhiins]

I live in northern Minnesota by Lake Superior. Very well known for our harsh winters!
What I love.. well, there’s only a couple things. For one, it is really pretty after it snows. When there’s a calm light snow and it sticks on the tree branches, it looks so beautiful I often take walks in the woods. And when it is snowing it gets really quiet and seems almost magical. Also, when the lake freezes there are some cool caves on Lake Superior that you can walk to in wintertime! A third thing is how pretty the lake fog gets. If you get up early in the morning around late November / early December; the lake water is still warm but the air gets chilling cold (regularly -30 degrees Fahrenheit), It creates this beautiful “sea smoke” at sunrise. You should look up sea smoke in Duluth, MN on Lake Superior!
It is also really nice to get inside and cozy under a blanket by a fire, with hot cocoa. I tend to get lazy in winter because of dreading to go outside, though.
The downsides.. well, there’s quite a lot. Definitely to the point where I want to move somewhere warmer; maybe forever.
First off.. it hurts. At first it’s okay. But here, it regularly gets up to -20. -30. And -40 below Fahrenheit here. We get windchills of up to -70 below sometimes with arctic air coming down to us, last winter we had that for two weeks. And it happens so often that they still expect you to work! You will walk outside and every part of your body starts to burn, covered up or not. My feet and hands start to go numb no matter how many gloves and socks I wear. It’s really bad for your skin and dries it out. Any fashion goes out the window- I’m bundled up in large furry coats, anything to make sure I don’t die if my car breaks down.
Speaking of cars; winter is the worst on cars. When it blizzards, it often gets icy, and the salt the city puts down to melt ice on the street destroys your cars. The batteries often die because of the cold, so your car won’t start. And you need snow tires if you want want to get around safely, I live in a hilly city as well.
Third - it’s dangerous! It’s often cold enough here that you can get frostbite after ten minutes. If you don’t have a place to stay, you’re at risk of dying in these temps. I feel so bad for the homeless people here. Drunk people, elderly people and children die in the cold all the time because they didnt make it inside. The snow often piles up to 4,5,6 feet and people get heart attacks from shoveling so much snow. Sometimes it’s so tall it covers stop signs.
Plus, the ice! It’s so so so scary to drive in blizzards, and we often get ice storms the make your cars slip around. People here never want to cancel work, and they tell you to toughen up.
In the late winter, the snow gets all dirty and turns into this gross brown mushy slush all over the roads. All your shoes will be ruined, everywhere. It looks pretty gross.
I would say living here has made me tough.. but I yearn for days when the air doesn’t hurt my face 8 months out of the year. I want to move away. I don’t mean to be dreary; but I have lived here my whole life and endured so many winters! It’s fun to visit here, and it’s nice in summer. But living here all year is another story, hehe

 

[jacex]

Winter doesn?t exist here. I?ve seen snow in other countries, but that?s generally it.

 

[Sweetley]

Here where I live, we used to had typical winter days, with cold temperature and lots of snow. However,
from year to year, the winter got shorter. It is still cold, but most of the time not cold enough for snow.
Because of this, we are getting more rainy days instead of snowy days. And if we got snow, it's only for
like two or three days till everything melting away. It sucks so much, not only because I prefer cold
weather, but winter is also my favorite season (next to fall) and I love snow so much. In other parts of
my home country, there is it cold enough for a good winter and actually, this part where I live is known
for being a more colder part, yet we have barely a good winter here (anymore).

I must admit, I'm jealous of everyone who has a typical winter. ._.

 

[Lynnea]

I love Winter. Probably because I don't live in a state where snow is tall enough to cover my door (it actually rarely snows here), but I hate being hot and sweaty. My ideal temperature is 30-60?F. I have noticed that if I get hurt when It's colder outside, I feel a lot more pain lol.

 

[Sprinkles_penguin]

I would gladly trade places with you in a heartbeat. I cannot stand the cold weather. Anything below 50F and I am in actual physical pain. The skin on my face stings, my lungs burn from breathing the cold air, and my hands and feet ache from the numbness. On the other hand, I can handle the heat quite well and don't even start breaking a sweat until it's at least 100F outside.

Where I live in the US, we get all 4 seasons, but I would happily skip winter. The snow and ice is pretty for all of about 2 seconds until you have to go out and shovel it, and people walk through it, and they plow it. Then, it's just an ugly, burdensome mess. Plus, the ice is flat out dangerous. People get in car accidents and fall and break bones due to the ice all the time. It is not pleasant.

To answer your question about the ice, it can be formed a couple of ways. Sometimes, the ice falls instead of snow or you get a mixture of snow and ice falling. The ice makes the snow extremely hard and heavy to shovel. We also sometimes get freezing rain, which means rain is falling but the ground is so cold that it turns to ice when it hits. That is one of the more dangerous forms in my opinion because there can be clear, invisible patches of ice that you don't see until you step on them or drive over them and lose control. Then, there's the ice that forms when the snow begins to melt. That is often the cause of the icicles you see. It gets warm enough during the middle of the day for the snow to start melting, but then freezes back over as it gets dark, so now the streets that have just been cleared are nothing but frozen sheets of ice.

In my opinion, it's miserable, but I can understand wanting to experience it if you never have before. The pictures of undisturbed snowfalls do make it look so pretty. Unfortunately, I can assure you it doesn't stay that way long unless you're in the middle of nowhere.

Lmao I start feeling hot and sweaty at 24?C (75 F).

Oh, the accident part is awful! Do you have special boots for the ice?

Thank you very much for answering my questions! Like seriously, I have so many questions about snow, ice and winter 7^7.

Yeah, I know how messy can snow get in the cities. Does it get as messy in small towns? What happens to grass after snowfall?

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I've only ever lived in South Carolina, so I feel like driving in a snowy winter would scare me. My town basically flips out when there's a few inches of snow like once every two years; I can't imagine a few feet!

I'll take my hot weather and 40-50 degree winters. November - March are really pretty temperate in South Carolina and rarely go below 30 degrees. It does rain a lot though because of the humid climate.

Does the rain/humidity make the cold worse?

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Usually it's from too much snow piled up so it's impossible to travel, power outages from blizzards. Sometimes it can take days to properly clear everything in some places in the world.

Also, the winter is the brightest season of the year in a way. The glare of the sun on iced over snow is blinding!

OMG really? Where do they get food or water then?

Yeah, I know the winter can be shiny, but I guess a lot less because it's generally cloudier isn't it? And at least the sun is weaker isn't it ? December sun here has about the same strength as October sun where you live.

Also, I do know BC is the warmest part of all Canada. That is partially why we chose to go there. The original plan was actually to go to Quebec, but my parents said it was too cold, and I don't blame them anyways.

 

[TheRealWC]

^Not really, but the summers here are brutal.

 

[idiotdoomspiral]

I enjoy winter when the outside isn't just powdered with sleet every morning. The atmosphere can be great and it's so nice to get comfy at home. Also there are practically no bugs roaming the streets so I can stay safe. Snow rarely ever stays with us, which is weird because where I live the conditions are right but it's also really damp which explains the sleet we end up with almost every year (probably)

 

[MapleSilver]

To answer your grass question, it dies but stays hidden beneath the snow. Which means that during spring, the ground is covered in dead grass for a while until new grass is able to grow. Spring here is kind of the season where everything looks dead since the trees also have yet to grow their leaves, and there isn't much snow to cover it up.

 

[Antonio]

Winter is suffering imbodied in nature. You ain't missing much.

 

[LadyDestani]

Lmao I start feeling hot and sweaty at 24?C (75 F).

Oh, the accident part is awful! Do you have special boots for the ice?

Thank you very much for answering my questions! Like seriously, I have so many questions about snow, ice and winter 7^7.

Yeah, I know how messy can snow get in the cities. Does it get as messy in small towns? What happens to grass after snowfall?

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Does the rain/humidity make the cold worse?

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OMG really? Where do they get food or water then?

Yeah, I know the winter can be shiny, but I guess a lot less because it's generally cloudier isn't it? And at least the sun is weaker isn't it ? December sun here has about the same strength as October sun where you live.

Also, I do know BC is the warmest part of all Canada. That is partially why we chose to go there. The original plan was actually to go to Quebec, but my parents said it was too cold, and I don't blame them anyways.

There really isn't much you can do about the ice. Boots with good tread help on packed snow, which can also get really slick, but nothing helps on ice. You just have to walk slowly and carefully and hold onto anything close by for support. One wrong step and you're going down.

I live in a small town and it's just as bad as a big city. It might be worse because we have more dirt and mud that turn the snow ugly quicker. And all that muddy snow gets tracked right into your house. My house doesn't have a foyer or mudroom or anywhere to take off your shoes. The first step through the door is right onto the living room carpet.

I forgot about the blinding glare of the sun too. It doesn't matter that the sun is weaker and, at least where I live, it doesn't stay cloudy. Have you ever been to a pool or the ocean in the middle of summer and had the sun glare off the water right into your eyes? It's exactly like that with the snow. It takes my eyes several minutes to adjust after going inside. All I can see is bright red spots.

Where I live, the grass usually dies before the first snow and stays that way all through winter and into early spring. So the grass is yellowish-brown and straggly, very ugly looking.

And power outages are a real problem because the power lines freeze. So you can be stuck with no heat in your home during below freezing temperatures for days, sometimes weeks if you live on the outskirts of town. Most people who live on the outskirts have generators for that reason, but those require gas which can get expensive and run low during an emergency. Plus, you'd better stock up before the storm because you might not be able to get out for days after the snow hits. Grocery stores sell out of all of their non-perishables anytime a major storm is forecast. And if the power is out for too long, you have to throw out all the food in your fridge and freezer.

 

[Sprinkles_penguin]

I live in northern Minnesota by Lake Superior. Very well known for our harsh winters!
What I love.. well, there?s only a couple things. For one, it is really pretty after it snows. When there?s a calm light snow and it sticks on the tree branches, it looks so beautiful I often take walks in the woods. And when it is snowing it gets really quiet and seems almost magical. Also, when the lake freezes there are some cool caves on Lake Superior that you can walk to in wintertime! A third thing is how pretty the lake fog gets. If you get up early in the morning around late November / early December; the lake water is still warm but the air gets chilling cold (regularly -30 degrees Fahrenheit), It creates this beautiful ?sea smoke? at sunrise. You should look up sea smoke in Duluth, MN on Lake Superior!
It is also really nice to get inside and cozy under a blanket by a fire, with hot cocoa. I tend to get lazy in winter because of dreading to go outside, though.
The downsides.. well, there?s quite a lot. Definitely to the point where I want to move somewhere warmer; maybe forever.
First off.. it hurts. At first it?s okay. But here, it regularly gets up to -20. -30. And -40 below Fahrenheit here. We get windchills of up to -70 below sometimes with arctic air coming down to us, last winter we had that for two weeks. And it happens so often that they still expect you to work! You will walk outside and every part of your body starts to burn, covered up or not. My feet and hands start to go numb no matter how many gloves and socks I wear. It?s really bad for your skin and dries it out. Any fashion goes out the window- I?m bundled up in large furry coats, anything to make sure I don?t die if my car breaks down.
Speaking of cars; winter is the worst on cars. When it blizzards, it often gets icy, and the salt the city puts down to melt ice on the street destroys your cars. The batteries often die because of the cold, so your car won?t start. And you need snow tires if you want want to get around safely, I live in a hilly city as well.
Third - it?s dangerous! It?s often cold enough here that you can get frostbite after ten minutes. If you don?t have a place to stay, you?re at risk of dying in these temps. I feel so bad for the homeless people here. Drunk people, elderly people and children die in the cold all the time because they didnt make it inside. The snow often piles up to 4,5,6 feet and people get heart attacks from shoveling so much snow. Sometimes it?s so tall it covers stop signs.
Plus, the ice! It?s so so so scary to drive in blizzards, and we often get ice storms the make your cars slip around. People here never want to cancel work, and they tell you to toughen up.
In the late winter, the snow gets all dirty and turns into this gross brown mushy slush all over the roads. All your shoes will be ruined, everywhere. It looks pretty gross.
I would say living here has made me tough.. but I yearn for days when the air doesn?t hurt my face 8 months out of the year. I want to move away. I don?t mean to be dreary; but I have lived here my whole life and endured so many winters! It?s fun to visit here, and it?s nice in summer. But living here all year is another story, hehe

OMG I love Minnesota, and I've always wanted to go there! I can't even imagine how magic those forests look like!

I googled pics of sea smoke and OMG it looks fantastic!

Don't you guys have shelters for the poor and in need?

I know driving is very difficult in snow, but I'd never thought about it... (probably because I don't even drive lmaoo).

I think your winters are very harsh... I feel really bad for the sick and poor. But all this hasn't discouraged me to visit a place with snowy winters. But I think people anyway here are still at risk of dying of winter. I mean, it doesn't get as Arctic as you do, but it still gets around freezing point, enough to make people sick and feel very cold (at least here). Also, we don't get any rain on winter, so it gets very dry. That's why dehydration, insolation, and hypothermia might be the reality of the poorest around here.

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Winter doesn?t exist here. I?ve seen snow in other countries, but that?s generally it.

Just like I do!

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Here where I live, we used to had typical winter days, with cold temperature and lots of snow. However,
from year to year, the winter got shorter. It is still cold, but most of the time not cold enough for snow.
Because of this, we are getting more rainy days instead of snowy days. And if we got snow, it's only for
like two or three days till everything melting away. It sucks so much, not only because I prefer cold
weather, but winter is also my favorite season (next to fall) and I love snow so much. In other parts of
my home country, there is it cold enough for a good winter and actually, this part where I live is known
for being a more colder part, yet we have barely a good winter here (anymore).

I must admit, I'm jealous of everyone who has a typical winter. ._.

Yeah, I'm jealous as well . I'd like my winters colder, to compensate for 6 months of hot temperatures.

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I love Winter. Probably because I don't live in a state where snow is tall enough to cover my door (it actually rarely snows here), but I hate being hot and sweaty. My ideal temperature is 30-60?F. I have noticed that if I get hurt when It's colder outside, I feel a lot more pain lol.

I actually feel better when it's cold, I feel pain and sweaty when it's too hot.

 

[Oldcatlady]

i lived in canada for most of my life and i hate snow!!!
it used to be fun when i was a kid because i loved making snowmen, have snowball fights with my friends, and sliding off hills. i also loved maple taffy (maple syrup on snow).

but now that i'm older it's a pain to transit (i take 4 buses/trains to go to school and they're always late)
also it's too cold for my liking. i get cold easily
it gets really dark after 5pm in winter and it's actually pretty annoying

i would love winter if it didn't snow because i like the cold more than heat haha.

 

[Sprinkles_penguin]

Bump

 

[2kimi2furious]

I'm from the swamp, so we don't really have real winters here either. Every once in a while, it will snow, but it will pretty much be melted by afternoon. It doesn't get super cold here usually, but it's still too cold for me. I much prefer to be hot all the time. I have really poor blood circulation and low blood pressure so I get cold when everyone else is at a comfortable temperature, lol.

I've experienced "real" winter one year when I went to visit my cousin in Boston for New Year's Eve. The snow was really magical for the first hour or so... but then it was cold and my Louisiana winter clothes weren't cutting it. I was MISERABLE and it was MUDDY and it wouldn't melt. It kind of ruined snow for me, lol. I couldn't imagine living with it.

 

[namiieco]

i live in the uk and we havent got any good snowfall or really cold winters in a while now. i prefer it like this though since the cold really brings down my mood and productivity.

 

[Sprinkles_penguin]

I enjoy winter when the outside isn't just powdered with sleet every morning. The atmosphere can be great and it's so nice to get comfy at home. Also there are practically no bugs roaming the streets so I can stay safe. Snow rarely ever stays with us, which is weird because where I live the conditions are right but it's also really damp which explains the sleet we end up with almost every year (probably)

Yeah, I love that bugs die in winter so mosquitoes don't proliferate (mosquitoes are very common on summer here, specially because it's really humid and rainy).

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To answer your grass question, it dies but stays hidden beneath the snow. Which means that during spring, the ground is covered in dead grass for a while until new grass is able to grow. Spring here is kind of the season where everything looks dead since the trees also have yet to grow their leaves, and there isn't much snow to cover it up.

So until what month does it all look green and spring-like? Do you get spring snowstorms?

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Winter is suffering imbodied in nature. You ain't missing much.

It is not! I love winter!

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There really isn't much you can do about the ice. Boots with good tread help on packed snow, which can also get really slick, but nothing helps on ice. You just have to walk slowly and carefully and hold onto anything close by for support. One wrong step and you're going down.

I live in a small town and it's just as bad as a big city. It might be worse because we have more dirt and mud that turn the snow ugly quicker. And all that muddy snow gets tracked right into your house. My house doesn't have a foyer or mudroom or anywhere to take off your shoes. The first step through the door is right onto the living room carpet.

I forgot about the blinding glare of the sun too. It doesn't matter that the sun is weaker and, at least where I live, it doesn't stay cloudy. Have you ever been to a pool or the ocean in the middle of summer and had the sun glare off the water right into your eyes? It's exactly like that with the snow. It takes my eyes several minutes to adjust after going inside. All I can see is bright red spots.

Where I live, the grass usually dies before the first snow and stays that way all through winter and into early spring. So the grass is yellowish-brown and straggly, very ugly looking.

And power outages are a real problem because the power lines freeze. So you can be stuck with no heat in your home during below freezing temperatures for days, sometimes weeks if you live on the outskirts of town. Most people who live on the outskirts have generators for that reason, but those require gas which can get expensive and run low during an emergency. Plus, you'd better stock up before the storm because you might not be able to get out for days after the snow hits. Grocery stores sell out of all of their non-perishables anytime a major storm is forecast. And if the power is out for too long, you have to throw out all the food in your fridge and freezer.

So all that ice doesn't melt until spring?

Are there places were snow doesn't get muddy? I mean, I knew snow would be a mess in big cities.

I know the snow might reflect the sun, but at least it's not too intense. Where you live the sun probably elevates only at a 30? angle, which means it's still less strong than, say, 45?. Yeah, my eyes are really light sensitive, and it's always bright in here .

Where I live, the grass dies as well before winter, and it all becomes yellow, dry and patchy, and it doesn't even snow here!

What do you normally do at power outages while you're stuck at your house?

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i lived in canada for most of my life and i hate snow!!!
it used to be fun when i was a kid because i loved making snowmen, have snowball fights with my friends, and sliding off hills. i also loved maple taffy (maple syrup on snow).

but now that i'm older it's a pain to transit (i take 4 buses/trains to go to school and they're always late)
also it's too cold for my liking. i get cold easily
it gets really dark after 5pm in winter and it's actually pretty annoying

i would love winter if it didn't snow because i like the cold more than heat haha.

I'd really like to play with snow someday, and I'd like to try maple taffy. I really love the general atmosphere winter creates.

I get too hot easily lmao.

I'd really like the days here to end earlier, it's just very wintery! Here, it gets dark after 6pm . You're fortunate to get longer days on summer and shorter days on winter, because you get a taste of it all!

 

[Bizhiins]

OMG I love Minnesota, and I've always wanted to go there! I can't even imagine how magic those forests look like!

I googled pics of sea smoke and OMG it looks fantastic!

Don't you guys have shelters for the poor and in need?

I know driving is very difficult in snow, but I'd never thought about it... (probably because I don't even drive lmaoo).

I think your winters are very harsh... I feel really bad for the sick and poor. But all this hasn't discouraged me to visit a place with snowy winters. But I think people anyway here are still at risk of dying of winter. I mean, it doesn't get as Arctic as you do, but it still gets around freezing point, enough to make people sick and feel very cold (at least here). Also, we don't get any rain on winter, so it gets very dry. That's why dehydration, insolation, and hypothermia might be the reality of the poorest around here.

It?s pretty common that they close homeless shelters at 6am and kick everyone out for the day until nighttime to save money . I think you?d love it here though! I kinda feel bad for being so grumpy about it now lol. Sounds like you?d actually enjoy and appreciate winter, you?d be a perfect candidate for living somewhere like this and actually loving it! I have friends that do as well. I?m just a baby
Also if you like that you should look up apostle island sea caves in winter. They?re on Lake Superior by the reservation where I?m from in Wisconsin. You can walk on the ice across to lake to them. They?re breathtakingly beautiful. Plus they?re close to Duluth (about 1 1/2 hr away) so it could be done in one trip! ^_^

 

[Sprinkles_penguin]

I'm from the swamp, so we don't really have real winters here either. Every once in a while, it will snow, but it will pretty much be melted by afternoon. It doesn't get super cold here usually, but it's still too cold for me. I much prefer to be hot all the time. I have really poor blood circulation and low blood pressure so I get cold when everyone else is at a comfortable temperature, lol.

I've experienced "real" winter one year when I went to visit my cousin in Boston for New Year's Eve. The snow was really magical for the first hour or so... but then it was cold and my Louisiana winter clothes weren't cutting it. I was MISERABLE and it was MUDDY and it wouldn't melt. It kind of ruined snow for me, lol. I couldn't imagine living with it.

Oh really? Your vacations might have been ruined because of muddy snow, but at least it got cold!

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i live in the uk and we havent got any good snowfall or really cold winters in a while now. i prefer it like this though since the cold really brings down my mood and productivity.

Are days cloudy on winter there?

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It’s pretty common that they close homeless shelters at 6am and kick everyone out for the day until nighttime to save money . I think you’d love it here though! I kinda feel bad for being so grumpy about it now lol. Sounds like you’d actually enjoy and appreciate winter, you’d be a perfect candidate for living somewhere like this and actually loving it! I have friends that do as well. I’m just a baby
Also if you like that you should look up apostle island sea caves in winter. They’re on Lake Superior by the reservation where I’m from in Wisconsin. You can walk on the ice across to lake to them. They’re breathtakingly beautiful. Plus they’re close to Duluth (about 1 1/2 hr away) so it could be done in one trip! ^_^

Oh do they really do that? That's miserable... But, are there too many poor people in Minnesota?

Yeah, I'd really like to live cold winters like that... But I know I'll someday get to see a winter like that (but not anytime soon lmao )