WinterSnow

That must be quite weird to dislike winter but want snow. Most people who dislike winter can just move down somewhere that is milder, but if you like snow you have to be somewhere with winter to get snow. The idea of disliking winter but liking snow is so weird to me. I guess we're all different. As for me, I love winter, snow or not.

Well, I don't want to say where in Bristol I live... Even revealing the city or even county I live in is not something I do much of anywhere else online, but I think I live in a decent area. My apartments aren't luxury apartments or anything, but I'm happy.

Heavy rains today. Don't know how much because I own no outdoor space at my apartment to put a rain gauge. Either way, loved the temps and it being overcast. Got my windows open again and it feels soooo good. My favorite kinda weather (aside from the pouring rain, but we need it to further fend off the drought). I get to sleep comfortably under my covers because of this amazing weather!! =D

Oh, yeah... The bugs. I hate bugs!! They freak me out! I've already encountered so many while going out for walks. Including bees and wasps flying right near my face. The sheer peace of winter and not having them around. I miss it. Frogs are cool, though. I saw some around last summer.

It will feel like we're in Florida with that heat and humidity? God, I felt so blessed by the past couple of days. My windows open, letting that naturally cool air in. I don't want it to go away.

I got out early because I thought it was going to rain, but so far dry in CT. It looked like something was coming this way but then it went north.

Storm's picking up here. Hopefully it leaves some cooler air behind it.

Fair. It just feels like in CT, you have all that CT has to offer, plus NYC, MA and Boston not too far away. (of course, now that I live here, I'm not thinking of going to NYC or Boston for regular visits, but I did want to get one of the specialists I need in Boston, as I was previously her patient in OK and she moved, too) I'm sorry about your parents. As much as I hate to think of it, my parents are getting older and I hate being so far away from them now. I'm hoping I can get them here and be around to take care of them when they need care. I'm super close to my parents and this is the first time I've ever lived more than an hour away (and that was for a couple of years only).

A variety of reasons, really. (I've dreamed of living in Maine since I was real little, but in compromise with my family who I hope will come up here eventually, I settled with southern New England, but it's also about all of the options for medical care and the like I have down here. I'm not made to live in the middle of nowhere lol) I'm going to have to deal with it. I relocated to CT last summer, so I've experienced mid-June onward in the state. Once I'm acclimated it gets a little better. I was blown away by how much cooler summer was aside from some nasty days here and there. And that summer was above average??? WOW. I love where I live now. Just give me some time to acclimate to the warming weather. lol Lol, no. I don't drink. I'm just naturally like this. Sorry to say. Does getting drunk make you more susceptible to heat? Sure am glad I never got in the habit!

74 degrees and bright, bright sunshine. Very light breeze, if any. This is the kind of weather that normal people like, but it was a bit much for me, especially on my walk back from the store. Being sweaty with the hot sun beating down on me is not my idea of a good time.

Random loud rumble of thunder about shot me through my ceiling. Lol But we keep on missing the heavier rain here. It's like all of the bands want to go around Bristol.

I didn't very well. But I think my tolerance for the heat and sun has decreased as I've gotten older. So it wasn't always this bad for me. Plus, again - summer acclimation. I don't acclimate to the heat all of that much, but I do find 70s a lot better in July and August than I do right now. I wonder what it would be like to not need that acclimation and just be normal and like the 70s and the 80s.

Ugh. Already have my air on right now for a while.

I know. But this is April, not summer. I seriously feel as if I've gone back to where I was born and raised, because this is what "Spring" feels like down there. It sucks.

84 and the sun is trying to shine through the clouds. At least my apartment seems to have not taken in all of the heat and fans are sufficing to keep me cool.

I don't particularly like warm weather, and it's especially rough for me during the Spring when I'm not acclimated to it.

Already 75 and my face looks like this: I don't like going outside to warm weather in the morning. What is this, Florida? Maybe I should've moved to Maine, after all.

Looked out the window at 7am and then went back to sleep. I did not expect there to be anything on the ground. I was a little surprised. This image was at 7, but the snow remains even now on the grass, but not the pavement/roads of course.

Ah, yes, Southington is very close, I was down there some yesterday. Hard to believe there was such a sharp temperature difference between here and there!

Torch did not make it up to me. It never made it out of the lower 50s and is now 44. So... I was wrong, and I certainly can't complain.

Keep that torch below me, please. But I suspect it will make it up to me because I'd hate it and that's how weather works in my life. Totally not scientific, but it happens anyway.

My rating would probably be far too generous due to this being my first winter in New England, all of my past winters spent in the pathetic south. Positives: +Consistently in the 20s and 30s with the rare "warm" days being in the 40s, rarely 50s +Snow on the ground a substantial portion of the season. Negatives: -No real snowstorms, snow on ground was from successive smaller events. I'd give this a darn good rating, but as I said, I'm biased. I just can't even begin to describe how refreshing this winter has been for me. It may not have been a true New England winter (apparently), but it's night and day from what I dealt with before. Much, much more in line with how a winter should be, so much better for my mental health.

55 degrees outside????? Who said that could happen? Where's my winter?

43 degrees. Feels like a heatwave. LOL. Nice to see some grass reappearing for my dog to go out on. That ice covered snow was rough.

What was that like? The south hit me with one of the worst examples just a year before moving - Winter Storm Warning, projected 6-8 inches (fantastic for a storm that far south). Then the storm comes and, I kid you not, a pocket of warm air opens up almost solely over my county and creates a donut hole where it's raining while everywhere around gets the winter storm. I don't think even a single snowflake fell at my house that day. I'll post a picture of the radar. I don't live there anymore, anyway, so...