Do you get four distinct seasons where you live?

[WritingIsMyReligion]

You know, distinguishable spring/summer/fall/winter?

There's a joke in northern New England that there are definitely four seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter, and road construction. In all seriousness, however, we get 4 pretty good ones, though fall and winter tend to blur together, as do spring (mud/rain season) and summer (all 3 weeks of it), so it's more like "warm" season and "cold" season, with sometimes ridiculous swings in each. Each is cool in its own way. :)

[Tuesday Afternoon]

1. Yes, thought not necessarily in that order

:D

[TZ]

2. We do.

Although spring and fall tend to be a little short..In spring it stays cool for awhile then we get a few weeks of moderate weather and BOOM right into summer..same with fall..But they do exist..
Heh. That reminds me..a lot of people in MN when they found out I live in DC asked me when the Cherry Blossoms are gonna bloom and I had to tell them it was two weeks past!:)

[GOPisEvil]

3. Yes.

We have ice (2 days), warm (4 months), hot (5 months), surface of the sun (3 months).

Actually, this year, we didn't even have the ice. :(

This is for Central Texas. Other parts of Texas vary wildly.

[yellowdogintexas]

5. up here, maybe 5 days of ice and a week or two less of surface of the sun

The warm periods are very nice though

[yellowdogintexas]

4. North Texas: very early spring, spring which last a pretty good time,

early summer, summer, HELL, early fall, late fall, almost winter and about 15 days of winter.


there is a saying that hell wasn't hot enough so God had to make Texas.

but I love our long springs and autumns here. We don't get the wonderful color because our temperatures drop too gradually and our summers are so dry but it is a most pleasant time of year.

There have been years in which I wore shorts on Thanksgiving Day.

[Skittles]

31. you describe it pretty good

and spring here is beautiful when the weather cooperates - when I drive up north to Whitesboro (close to the OK border), I nearly run off the road watching all the baby horses. AWESOME!!!

[KSinTX]

6. If a week or two counts, we do in S. Central TX

We have about 2 weeks of Spring, 10 months of summer, 1 month of what in these parts passes for Fall, a couple more weeks of Winter (at least Hill Country gets hard freezes). I started my veggies indoors in January, will probably harvest first 'maters in about two weeks, and my neighbor laughed that her brother was already harvesting. I suppose I should have started sometime in December, which by most accounts sorta falls under Winter, no?

[XemaSab]

7. Santa Barbara? There's about one and a half seasons:

sunny and cloudy/rainy/overcast.

[Tikki]

47. and windy and shaky and fiery.....

:)


Tikki

[Oeditpus Rex]

8. Pre-season baseball, baseball, post-season baseball

and when's baseball season?

[CatholicEdHead]

9. Yes, sometimes all in one day

[femmocrat]

10. We used to. (W. PA)

Now it gets hot early and stays hot and humid until the end of October. Then bam, it's winter (actually comfortable to me) until the end of March.

I keep track by how many months I wear capris to school. Started in mid-April this year! Wore them until end of Oct. 2007. I have given away all of my heavy clothes. Don't need them anymore!

[Fox Mulder]

11. In Minnesota, in the past week or so, we've had four distinct seasons.

Now we're in winter. x(

[geardaddy]

20. Geesh

What IS up with this crap weather? I remember a couple of years ago it hitting 90 the first week of April then the last week of April there was a snow storm.

[GreenPartyVoter]

12. Well, I live where you live so yah! LOL

[YankeyMCC]

13. Sure sometimes in the same day nt

[DarkTirade]

14. I do now.

Didn't before November though. I spent the last 20 years before November in Florida... where we have two seasons. Nine months of summer, and three months of 'other'.

[struggle4progress]

15. In NC, we only haveg "Heating Season" and "Air Conditioning Season"

Heating Season is whenever the outside temperature falls below 70: it's time to set the thermostat to 85 and complain about how cold it is

Air Conditioning Season is whenever the outside temperature rises above 70: it's time to set the thermostat to 55 and complain about how hot it is

[WritingIsMyReligion]

22. Hahahahaha.

Man, 70 is *warm* around here. :D

[JCMach1]

16. We have Summer and NOT SUMMER in Dubai

[Mojorabbit]

17. Yes

I am in central florida. It is very subtle though and you have to pay attention to discern them.

[fizzgig]

18. sometimes we do in n. colorado

we seem to be having an actual spring this year, cool and breezy. there have been years when it would be in the 80s beginning in march and only got hotter until august with 80s well into september or october. sometimes we get real winters with cold and snow.

we can sometimes get multiple seasons in a day...it's nuts out here

[Danger Mouse]

19. Well...we used to...but lately it's been...

Spring, Summer, Fall, and slightly colder Fall.

[Genevieve]

35. I agree sort of, except that to me it feels like

Summer is now late Spring
and Fall would be late Summer.
It all kind of runs into each other -- feels almost the same, No more distinct seasons.

[pokerfan]

21. Do we ever!

Quintessential four-season climate, being in the continental and semi-arid zone. Winters are cold, averaging 50.4 inches (128 cm) of snow per year, while summers are hot and sunny with temperatures usually in the 80's and 90's, occasionally getting into the 100's. The Cascade Mountains to the west shield the city from the direct modifying effect of Pacific Ocean air, and the Rocky mountains to the east help to protect it from the worst effects of Arctic air in winter. Precipitation is concentrated in the cooler half of the year, with the summer typically having dry and stable weather.

[yvr girl]

23. Sort of...

Wet
Wet and cold
Wet
A few blissful weeks of DRY

[krispos42]

24. Yes, we do

Heating season
Road construction season
Mosquito season
Hunting season


:-)


This week it went from road construction (Sunday, 75 and sunny) to heating season (today, 32 and snowing)

[Blue_In_AK]

25. We do

except winter tends to dominate ... which I'm especially feeling since we got a foot and a half of snow yesterday. x(

[ashling]

26. drought, drought, drought, flood

[zanne]

27. I used to think New England was just winter/summer...

But then I began to notice. April is a wonderful spring month, with baby green shoots sprouting in the back yard, full streams with fiddleheads and longer daylight. May is crazy flower time with so many colors it's almost blinding. June is serene and summer begins to settle in. July is an old friend with swimming, camping, bike riding and lightning bugs. August is hot, humid and sticky and a yearning for cooler weather stirs man and beast. September is quiet, warm and lovely. October brings another riot of color and warm afternoons. November strips the trees and lets us see what was hidden for months before. December is snow and holidays. January, February and March are gray, cold and seem endless. And just when you give up hope, it's April again.

[noel711]

28. Here in wonderful Pennsylvania... we have four, usually..

Right now its glorious spring...
Spring in Bucks County is quite possibly the best...
longer and more beautiful than you can imagine...

Summer is a long slog, it gets hot too soon,
and lasts warm thru the end of September...

Autumn here is almost as wonderful a spring...
especially when the mountains turn gold...

winter is ...well... I like a good, cold, snowy winter.
Snow not so much here... but then spring is always around the corner..

I don't think I could live where there's little weather variation.

[NMDemDist2]

29. I think so

we've got

damned cold
windy as shit
hot as hell
pretty nice


so I guess that's four eh?

edit to add, my hubby says "No, the Four Seasons is in New York"

:rofl:

[DBoon]

30. In LA we get two seasons

rain and smog

[nytemare]

32. No, we have Summer, and 1/4 spring

and 1/5 fall, which actually comes during what should be winter.

Florida blows.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

33. Yep.

Although when I was in L.A., it was just one long season. :rofl:

[Orsino]

34. Yeah. n/t

[Deja Q]

36. In order: Snow, mosquito, baking, autumn

[Gormy Cuss]

37. No.

There are three seasons. Probably Going to Rain, Probably Won't Rain, and Too Damn Hot. Most of the year is the Probably Won't Rain season.

[Robb]

38. Snow, mud, summer, mud with pretty leaves.

'Bout sums it up for the Colorado high country. :D

[fight4my3sons]

39. Overheard in the store just the other day...

"not gonna get those, it's almost wintah" :rofl:

[WritingIsMyReligion]

41. Damn straight.

"Wintahhhhh"

:rofl::rofl:

[maveric]

40. Two seasons here. San Diego

Nine months of "Nice", and Three months of "Winter".

[1gobluedem]

42. Yes, sometimes all in one day

It's Michigan after all.

[erinlough]

43. Michigan Here and yes we do!

I live here because my body seems to need those four distinct changes. I look forward to each one of them but Michigan Fall has my heart.......the colors, the smells, the crisp air around a bon-fire, Halloween the way it is supposed to be, putting my gardens to bed for the winter, snow fences, bulb planting, not to mention pumpkins and raking leaves....I just love it!

[philosophie_en_rose]

44. Every week.

It snowed two days ago. It's now scorching hot. It's supposed to rain and snow again soon.

[applegrove]

45. Cold winters, nice springs, hot humid summer and beautiful fall with

leaves everywhere. Couldn't ask for a better mix.

[SoxFan]

46. New England has two seasons

Winter and August 3.

Or maybe more...

Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall, Mosquito, Black Fly, Foliage, Baseball, Football, and Hockey.

[Bennyboy]

48. In NORCAL....

It is summer here in NORCAL. But the seasons lately have been pretty distinct and long....Seems like six weeks of spring type weather...

[BreweryYardRat]

49. Florida, so no, we don't.

2 seasons.

1. Holy fucking shit it's hot! season (Usually May-October, sometimes Nov. or Dec. in bad years).
2. Cool-to-temperate season (Starts whenever the hot season ends, goes until the end of April.)

[huskerlaw]

50. Nope.

We have summer and not-quite-summer (something that approximates spring, but occurs in the months typically referred to as "winter"). Southern California, btw.

[JTG of the PRB]

51. We'll usually get anywhere between 3 and 8 seasons where I live.

Sometimes it'll be in the 80's in Mach, or the 70's in November and February. Sometimes in June it'll dip into the low 30's, and in August it feels like the sun is getting closer every single day. Depending on how mile our winters are, sometimes we blend right from late summer into winter with little notice of fall, and then it'll bland from winter into late spring with little notice.