ITT: A Floridian bitches about cold weather

[Disco Pickle]

how's the weather where you are you spags?

hate florida all you like.  hell, Ill even agree with you on most points.

but damn if the weather isn't nice.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I think it's about 45, with a magnificent wind that is whistling through the trees. I am wearing my scarf and baby-soft cashmere sweater.

[Juana]

It's 60* outside. Flipflops-and-jacket weather in central California.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Mr. Language wants to take me skiing this winter. I hate snow, but promised to try it for him. He loves it.

[Disco Pickle]

the only problem is it drops to the low 50's at night, then shoots back up in the 70's during the day.  20 degree change every 12 hours really fucks with the nose.

Nigel, aren't you in Oregon?

Have a friend who just moved to Portland.  I give him 3 months before he's wearing skinny jeans and size SM band shirts.

[Disco Pickle]

Mr. Language wants to take me skiing this winter. I hate snow, but promised to try it for him. He loves it.

I've seen snow ONCE in the flesh..  1989 here, 1 1/2" of snow.  shut down the entire city and bridges.

I made a 1' tall snowman..  I had to use a lot of dirt.

always been a fan of water skiing..  snow just seems dangerous to me.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I am in Portland! It doesn't snow here as much as some kind of white treachery falls from the sky and tries to kill you in unexpected ways. It sometimes takes new arrivals, especially people from places with snow, 3 or 4 years of scoffing at how everyone panics and rushes home at the first sign of the evil, but that's just because they don't know yet. They haven't seen. You never know what it's going to do, and after they've experienced how it turns on you, they too fear the white badness.

There is snow in other places near here, like Mt. Hood.

I am a total pussy when it comes to snow or coldness. It turns me into a huddling, whiny crybaby.

[Disco Pickle]

I am in Portland! It doesn't snow here as much as some kind of white treachery falls from the sky and tries to kill you in unexpected ways. It sometimes takes new arrivals, especially people from places with snow, 3 or 4 years of scoffing at how everyone panics and rushes home at the first sign of the evil, but that's just because they don't know yet. They haven't seen. You never know what it's going to do, and after they've experienced how it turns on you, they too fear the white badness.

There is snow in other places near here, like Mt. Hood.

I am a total pussy when it comes to snow or coldness. It turns me into a huddling, whiny crybaby.

if it's below 50, I call in.  but then, I drive a jeep wrangler soooo

the rain makes people stupid drivers here.  which is strange, because it rains here all of the time.  since florida is where new englanders go to die, I blame them for it.

If it started to snow here every winter I'd be forced to move to Tampa or worse..  orlando

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Rain makes people into stupid drivers here, too, but only if it hasn't been raining for a few weeks. Then the first few times, it's like they've forgotten everything they know about rain and all hell breaks loose.

Oregon drivers are really special. Also, only small schoolchildren own umbrellas, and everyone just walks around looking confused and affronted at the water falling from the sky. "Why am I getting wet?" their moist little faces ask, beseechingly.

It is like that roughly nine months out of the year, and then when the sun comes out everyone's all "ZOMG YAY I LOVE OREGON!!!"

[Juana]

Do some of them stare up at the sky with their mouths open like turkeys?

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

It is 55 outside, and sopping wet from the mysterious rain that falls in Georgia, without sound or fanfare. The only other type of precipitation I have observed here is howling torrential downpour.

Dark, damp, chilly <-- my favorite weather but my body is really starting to hate it. Fucking arthritis.

[Kai]

40 F and drizzling here. Fucking South Carolina "winters".

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Do some of them stare up at the sky with their mouths open like turkeys?

Yes, and the heavy rains provide a great deal of work for the drowned hipster cleanup crews.

[Don Coyote]

Rain makes people into stupid drivers here, too, but only if it hasn't been raining for a few weeks. Then the first few times, it's like they've forgotten everything they know about rain and all hell breaks loose.

Oregon drivers are really special. Also, only small schoolchildren own umbrellas, and everyone just walks around looking confused and affronted at the water falling from the sky. "Why am I getting wet?" their moist little faces ask, beseechingly.

It is like that roughly nine months out of the year, and then when the sun comes out everyone's all "ZOMG YAY I LOVE OREGON!!!"

Washington is just like this. Interestingly Ridgecrest, which is in the middle of a desert, doesn't have people turn retarded when it does rain.

[bds]

Minus something (celsius, bitches) - Snow just started to melt earlier today.