Weather

[fclbrokle]

I'm someone who thrives on change. The more things stay the same, the more dull they are, in my opinion. I can settle into routines and enjoy them, but only if those routines get mixed up sometimes, only if the individual pieces aren't "and now I do this" but are instead "and now I come up with something interesting." This may, in fact, be part

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[sakecake]

"Nice" socal weather is annoying. Spending the summer in Missouri and having storms (and just weather changes in general) was amazing. I am not ready to think about leaving Mudd, but am more than ready to be done with socal.

[isomorphisms]

I'm enjoying your change of seasons vicariously.

I love Vancouver and want to live here forever, but the main thing I miss about life back east is the change in seasons, fall and winter especially. The standard deviation in climate here is pretty small, and it's easy to get lulled in feeling as though every day is the same. (Winter is especially bad: with an average of less than two hours of sunlight per day in November through January, there isn't even that much difference between night and day...)

[fclbrokle]

Whoa, less than two hours of sunlight per day...

I would enjoy that, in a perverse way. But yeah. The west coast in general has the weather downside. (Then again, there are lots of other quite cool things about the culture there, so the weather is offset by that; although Boston is my top place to live, the Bay Area, Seattle, and Portland are all close behind.)

[ch3cooh]

I love Boston, but perhaps fall makes me just a bit homesick. The temperature function is similar, but one thing I'll give NC is a beautiful late spring - late fall transition: full color, enough /trees/ to appreciate it, the AT if you really want to be immersed or the Blue Ridge if your lazy... raking... lots of raking...the yard would need to be raked at least once each week in peak fall -- but I would walk home from school and purposefully step on as many leaves as possible to hear the *crunch* sound.

[narya]

Yeah, the lack of weather bugged me a lot just spending a summer in CA.

[leech]

I'm puzzled by this statement because I've lived near the Pacific all my life (California, Oregon, Japan) and never had trouble distinguishing between seasons. The temperature variation is smaller, but it certainly exists. Other factors (sunlight hours, precipitation, plants) change just as much.

[ukelele]

The LA area, in my experience, had "bright", "less bright", and "February". These were perceptibly different, but it's not the same as real seasons. (I'm not familiar with the Pacific northwest; things may be different up there.) But I submit that, if you haven't spent at least a year in somewhere with more extreme seasons, that may be the reason you are puzzled.