Posted as a winter fan myself

    • Walk_blesseD@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      18 days ago

      insert joke about Melbourne having four seasons on any given day here

      okay, here’s a picture of the same intersection taken August last year (also winter). Gonna go out on a limb and say the trees in the median might be evergreen. streetview screenshot of the intersection between Flinders Street and Exhibition Street, dated August 2024 and showing the trees in Exhibition Street's median still green and leafy. The trees on the sides of the street are bare.

      • BurgerBaron@piefed.socialEnglish
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        18 days ago

        Def joining that, nice.

        I can feel myself getting happier in real time (hit 7’C last night and already my mood is improving) as the pitch dark silence of winter sets in. All the annoying birds migrate away, insects are all dead or hibernating, no rustling leaves, and most humans stop making sounds or going outside as much especially at night when I’m personally most active as a night owl. When my nostril hairs freeze together for the first time that year I’m positively ecstatic. I live further north than 95% of Canadians so even less daylight in the winter which is fucking great. The Sun > Vitamin D liquid drops. Go away, shitty fusion ball.

      • Chozo@fedia.io
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        18 days ago

        I am in love with this vibe. Shame that this isn’t a more active community.

    • notarobot@lemmy.zip
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      18 days ago

      Yes. But at night it gets way better and at worst is annoying. Winter is cold all day all the time and causes literally pain and sickness

        • LeninsOvaries@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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          18 days ago

          What the fuck are you talking about? People at high latitudes have the hottest summers. Ever hear of Darwin? Cairns? Broome? It’s the people from the south that don’t know what heat is. Adelaidians will complain about the heat and it’s only 30 degrees.

          • TheTetrapod@lemmy.world
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            18 days ago

            I’ve never seen an Australian do the American thing of assuming the person they’re responding to is from their country before. For most of the English speaking world, higher latitudes = further from the equator.

            • Fleur_@aussie.zone
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              18 days ago

              Higher latitudes are always further from the equator. Why are you people arguing about this when neither of you seem to understand that the lowest latitude is 0 degrees which is exactly on the equator.

              • offspec@lemmy.world
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                18 days ago

                Only if by higher you mean higher absolute value, it’s not particularly unorthodox for “higher” to generally refer to “more up on North up maps”

                • Fleur_@aussie.zone
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                  18 days ago

                  -12° is the same size as 12°. For angles the negative sign denotes direction. -12 N is just 12 S. Sure, but maps can be turned upside down. Is higher now south? What about a map centered on the north pole. Which direction is up then?

            • DarkCloud@lemmy.world
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              18 days ago

              Probably the mention of winter. The Southern Hemisphere has just left Winter… Also I think they’re driving on the left side of the road in the picture.

          • Fleur_@aussie.zone
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            18 days ago

            Latitude of Darwin: 12.5 S

            Latitude of Adelaide: 34.9 S

            “High latitudes have the hottest summers”

  • MudMan@fedia.io
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    18 days ago

    It’s been raining for five days after months of heatwaves and I’m sleeping with my windows open.

  • Corn@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    18 days ago

    laughs in equatorial mountain climate

    The fuck is a season?

      • Corn@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        17 days ago

        Technically we are in a rainy season, but its not a real rainy season, just a few months of showers for like 15-30 minutes, then sunny again, every 2-3 days. Similar to Florida weather.

        Those downpours can be pretty severe though, when it starts bad, you pull over and put on rain gear immediately because its about to get much worse. Sometimes it feels like you’re riding through soda, water hitting every inch of your body at all times, plus an inch of runoff on the road.

  • AstaKask@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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    18 days ago

    Fuck yes. “Winter depression” beats the shit out of summer exhaustion. Especially up here where the sun won’t stay down long for most of summer.

    Give me snow and ice so I can wear my good boots and coat.

    • azertyfun@sh.itjust.works
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      17 days ago

      You mustn’t get “winter depression” particularly bad then. I can’t get anything done when DST does away. Extreme cold or extreme heat I can easily find physical solutions to (my house is well-insulated), but spending all daylight hours in front of a screen then having zero sunlight for after-work activities is just a burden I have to bear 5 months out of the year and it makes me want to kill myself or become a bricklayer or sth.

      • AstaKask@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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        17 days ago

        Find the time to go outside during work hours. Take a little walk or something. It’s easy for me since I used to be a smoker but I get how it would make other people uncomfortable. If you live in a northern country it’s very likely you have the right to these kinds of breaks.

        • azertyfun@sh.itjust.works
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          17 days ago

          It has certainly helped to be able to work from home in the last couple years so I do take a walk during lunchtime. Working in an office you’re expected to socialize during lunch breaks, which happen indoors…

          Even then, 30 minutes of daylight every day five days a week in the best case scenario is NOT a lot, especially when it’s cloudy for weeks on end so saying “daylight” is already kind of stretching it.