I’m Swiss, but I was born and raised in the Gulf states. When I visit Switzerland during the cold season, I immediately become depressed, irritable, and in a bad mood. I prefer the heat 100%. I don’t think I could live in a place with a cold climate and be happy.
I’d consider vitamin D levels as a possible factor. Deficiency can make you feel that kind of bad and it tends to be an issue around this time of year. Less sun exposure chokes off its production and we’ve had a few months to burn through what gets stashed away in warmer times.
That was my first thought too. My understanding is that Nordic countries do think about vitamin D deficiency (especially this time of year) so it’s common to see stuff like cod liver oil and other ways to supplement vitamin D, besides just eating fish. Figured Switzerland would be similar.
I love all the weather. The single issue I have is strong wind when I’m home. I live in woods and the wind wrecks the older trees. I’ve already had a 10m upper trunk section destroy my roof a couple of years ago. So I get nervous when the wind is strong.
Other than that I love being outside regardless of weather. It’s all good.
Agreed. I enjoy basically everything except a cold wind. A cold, still day in the snow? Lovely. Being out in the rain? Sucks but bearable, as long as there’s no wind. A warm spring/summer breeze? Absolutely amazing. Just no fucking cold wind, please.
I was born and raised in northern Alberta and I hate the cold too. For me it’s just the pain of waiting on the side of a road for a bus that’s already twenty minutes late or sitting in the cab of your truck at -35°C waiting for it to warm up so you don’t bust the engine. I hate the heat also though, it could sometimes get up to +35°C in my hometown, so like a 100 degree temperature difference… it really sucked and you can’t escape the heat, at least not with the places I was able to rent back then.
The lack of sun doesn’t effect me that much, but maybe that’s because mushrooms are always a part of my diet. In fact, my favourite days are damp and overcast, which is why I live on the coast now and love it except for the high unemployment. ;-;
I love all four seasons, it’s usually the darkness and wind that gets me. But nothing that a bit of vitamin D can’t help fix.
Winter is great at times, I love freshly falling snow, running in it especially. But by this time of the year, the magic has worn off, 6 months of snow and ice and slush here. We don’t even have it that bad either comparitively.
Fall is probably my favorite season, followed closely by winter. I do use full-spectrum lights to compensate for the shorter days, but overall I think my mood is better during that time. Winter in a forest is one of the most beautiful things in the world.
Quick winter days depress the hell out of me. I need a baseline of 12 hours of sunlight.
Snow and rain. Love it. Takes all the pressure off of doing anything.
Long hot summer days also depress the fuck out of me but I can mitigate that a billion different ways.
Fall days are my comfort zone. I usually feel my best around September through November. The temp goes down. I can still wear shorts but it’s also not mind numbingly hot. My birthday and the holidays fall in that period. Usually the middle of December when it’s cold and dark by 4 my mood goes down.
Foggy days make me want to carry a machete around and hunt monsters in an abandoned town.
Thats exactly how I feel about heat.
Not a fan of the hot summer sun. All the other seasons come with a variety of emotions and nostalgic feelings at times, in very small amounts that are manageable to process/ignore. Peak summer hurts my eyes and makes me physically uncomfortable, fear being sweaty/stinky…yeah I think it’s a genuinely annoying season.
I hate sunlight. I like darkness. I love the cold. I love snow. I love winter. I don’t much like rain. I have extreme depression so it’s hard for me to tell if the weather affects it but I’m sad if I can’t walk at night. I fucking hate the heat. I hate sweating.
This except I’m usually okay in the winter. The hot discomfort of summer is when I get seasonal depression.
A nice, cold, cloudy day is what I enjoy. Bonus points for rain or snow. I can’t stand the heat or sunny days: too bright.
I was raised in Northern US. My ancestry mainly comes from the Mediterranean. I don’t understand why they moved there, because I was a shell of myself for like 6 months of the year.
I moved to a warmer climate and still can’t function until it hits like 65°F/19°C with sunlight. I can do as low as 70°F/21°C with overcast and rain.
I also can’t do dry air. I need humidity or my asthma flares up bad. My favorite days are 85°F/29°C+ with overcast drizzle or sunshine and minimal breeze. I can finally breathe and my body stops hurting.
Like most of the US, we had a weeks long cold spell with average temperatures around 5-10° F. It started to really affect my psyche. It was followed by a sprout of really mild winter weather, getting up to 60°. It snowed a bunch last night but it’s supposed to warm back up this week.
I couldn’t even get up my street for most of the cold weather due to a foot of snow that wasn’t melting. So I was parking under a bridge and walking like 5-10 minutes each way thru the woods every time I went to work, which has been 7 day weeks lately.
I finally got some crucial insulating done at my house but there was some bad drafts and stupid shit I found behind the walls of just holes out to nothing. Which the house is right up against a story tall retaining wall so it was almost impossible to see from the outside. There’s like maybe a foot between the wall and the house.
East of France weather summary
spring: Sun is coming back !! Green is coming back, Temperature is okay. I start sweating though, but it’s bearable
summer: All hot and no rain make myself sweaty and tired. Temperature is >30°C and not under 20°C during the night, I’m dying.
fall: Nice colours, nice temperature and some sun, I like it, people start judging me for wearing shorts.
winter: All dark and no sun make myself depressed. Temperature is nice though, after some weeks I resigned myself to start wearing pants (don’t forget your vitamins D supplements people!)
Being hot pisses me off.
If it’s foggy then we should drink tea
