I Hate Summer

I never get people who want to move south because they want to get away from the cold. I'm in the tri-state area and I want to move to northern Canada.

Fucking try living in Las Vegas - Pure hell

I used to be one of those people when I was young, R1. But the older I get, the more I love cooler weather.

I don't understand how people can live in the Southwest... I'd expect by 2040, Arizona, Nevada, and New Mexico will become completely uninhabitable.

I want to move to Maine. I hate this heat.

La Jolla’s weather is always fucking perfect.

Right there with you, OP. It shouldn’t be this hot already.

Imagine what July will be like. 🥵

Hot here in London, fan needed

I'm trapped in Georgia. Humidity was 85 percent yesterday. Hell can't be much hotter. It isn't even the hottest month yet.

While I personally am not bothered by heat and summer, big cities in the Northeast and Midwest are hellish in summer.

While Atlanta and Miami are incredibly hot and humid, they're also designed for that weather--you go from air conditioned car into air conditioned office/house/mall and don't need to spend much time outside.

And Miami is on the water and there are swimming pools everywhere.

Manhattan, Chicago, DC et al are just hot and disgusting and you are often someplace with no air conditioning, even if you're just walking two blocks from your office to get lunch.

You get used to it like anything else, but it is unpleasant.

Im in Fl r10 in Brevard County which is central east coast. When driving through Ga a couple of yrs ago, the car thermometer hit 104. In the 20 yrs Ive lived in Fl, it never got that hot!

And it's just started

Yes, R12, and the increased heat has been very unbearable. It has increased and it may be me, bit the sun feels almost alien.

But, R14

I hate summer, too. Not just the heat, but the entire vibe. More tourists, more kids, etc.

[quote]I never get people who want to move south because they want to get away from the cold. I'm in the tri-state area and I want to move to northern Canada.

In the winter you all hiss about the cold and the snow and in the summer....

I'd love to sniff the guys sweaty feet, pits and cock in the OP

Thanks for sharing R18!

I love the other 3 seasons that are not summer, and I’ve always been like that, even as a child. It works for me, because my vampire skin looks much better compared to my sun loving family members and friends.

My partner likes it hot, otherwise I would move to a nice and cold place with long winters.

I love and live for Autumn. I always have.

What a bunch of crybabies!!!!!

I dont mind the winter R17, I just cant take 6 months of it

My "perfect" weather is highs from 55F - 75F. Makes it nice when vacationing because I prefer to travel in what many consider to be the shoulder seasons. Less expensive, less people, more enjoyable.

same here op. cant stand the humidity

the subway trains are air conditioned but the stations are not. It's like a fucking oven! hotter than hell.

Sorry R5. It’s been in the low 90s and humid as hell here in Maine too. Unless you’re within a couple miles of the ocean, where it’s in the high 80s and humid.

Yeah I’m in NYC too, and the continued mask mandate in the subway is a bitch. Hopefully they drop it by July 4. I think that’s was the goal. Or maybe that’s just my wishful thinking twisting some other goal into the dropping of the mask mandate. 91 degrees here today! Same tomorrow! A 5-day heat wave. It was initially supposed to be done by yesterday.

[quote] I'd love to sniff the guys sweaty feet, pits and cock in the OP

Me too. That’s the only good thing about summer. Sweaty, smelly balls and feet.

I hate summer because of all the flip flops I hear thwacking against the sweaty soles of ugly unwashed feet.

I fucking hate it too. I don’t understand these idiots that bitch about winter and cold weather. It’s easier to warm up than cool off.

I have a few things to do in the yard but fuck it. It can wait until another day. It’s too damn hot and I have no desire to be outside sweating after two minutes.

My only problem with winter is snow. Snow really fucks things up. It kills people in accidents. You have to wait for roads to get plowed. You have to shovel and clean off your vehicle perhaps early in the morning when you’re barely awake. It can knock your power out for days on end. I don’t mind winter so long as it doesn’t snow much or preferably not at all.

I prefer spring and fall. Give me 75 degrees and a nice breeze and I'm happy.

That weather would be summer in a lot of the world R32

I do feel terrible for people without A/C in the summer. And being in NYC during a heatwave is miserable if you leave your air conditioned apartment. But for me I love summer and am enjoying the thunder storm that just rolled in. That will cool things off.

Im in florida and just miserable. My ezcema has flared up. Im also dreading hurricanes

[QUOTE] But for me I love summer and am enjoying the thunder storm that just rolled in. That will cool things off.

And soon R34 there won’t be any thunderstorms or rain at all with unrelenting 98 degree temps for weeks on end. We’ll see how much you love summer then.

R36, those unrelenting weeks of 98° rainless weather didn’t happen last summer or the summer before it. We haven’t had an intensely hot summer with no relief here in NYC for a few years.

It isn't the high temps, it is the smothering humidity that is unbearable. Many people die from heat strokes here every year. Not having air conditioners is deadly. I had a heat stroke once when I was 16 years old during a heat wave. I was at the beach with friends. We separated for awhile while they went for food. I could not move I have never been so weak and helpless. I thought I was going to lay there and die because people though I was just sun bathing on the beach, laying on my beach towel. I crawled towards the bathroom, getting within inches of the shower. I never made it. They found me there, unconscious. My temperature had gone up to 106 degrees, the EMT later told me. Very frightening, happened very fast. The took me to the concession stand , in the shade and packed me in ice. They elevated my legs. In a red bikini. The press was out covering the heat wave. Snap! My picture made the front page. Me in a red bikini, legs elevated, passed out. I have never lived it down here, lol! I hate Georgia summers.

Not worth worrying about r36. There will always be thunderstorms along the coast.

Most queens do not handle summer heat. I don’t know why either.

Crime goes up too.

R34, I really thought people were just being dramatic when it comes to hot days in NYC, until I experienced the hottest day on earth while I was there in July. Horrible.

The exhaust fumes mixed with random food smells and the occasional whiff of weed really did me in.

Summer sucks. It's also the noisiest time of the year. Motorcycles and lawnmowers and morons blaring their stereo.

I don’t mind the noise at all. Well, except the fireworks late at night. The loud music is great. Well, unless it’s shitty hip-hop or dance music. Which it is most of the time here in NYC.

Wait... I think I hate summer.

R43 And kids outside screeching. Why don't those little shits ever get heatstroke?

I love summah!!!! Yall are eldercunts!!!!

R45 you’ll be in peace when you die.

It sucks on the East Coast. In NYC.

We went to Wyoming in August and it was a revelation. The weather was beautiful there. Even when it was hot, it was bearable because it wasn’t all oppressive humidity. I could do summer there, no problem.

The HOT summer (+) months are hell. Anything over 90, yuck. People are smelly, stanky, skanky, they show their ugly or hairy or yellow toe-nailed feet. People in short skimpy clothes when the majority shouldn't be except on their own property. VPL and straps that you don't want to see. No food tastes good when it's that hot except cold comforting foods. You can't sleep. Your power bills go up. You hair won't cooperate. You skin breaks out from sunscreen. No thanks. Winter and spring are much better.

(I can't count fall as it's basically our summer here in LA)

I went to the beach once with a friend who was drunk from before we even arrived at the beach. He passed out on his towel. He's not the worst tanner, but Caucasian with light brown hair. I was pretty much sober. Every few minutes, I'd wake my friend up and say: "Flip over!" So as to avoid getting absolutely scorched on only one side of his body. He did thank me afterwards.

My mother is all over this thread.

Someone should make an "Endless Winter" poster for DLers

I hate the high humidity and heat combo. I also hate the cold and snow.

It went from 90 degrees to 70 in about a half hour.

I plan to spend a lot of time gardening this summer (I already have a great deal of time invested in it, as I started in March), but temperatures above 75°C are far from my favorites.

R29 I agree. When I become dictator flip-flops and sandals will be illegal in public places. 👍

The Flip Flop Troll has a shidduch.

Flip flops in public are nasty, unless you are at a beach.

I *do* want to see hot guys’ big, sexy toes.

R59- Good point. They are the exception to every rule, 😆

R3 it's supposed to be the opposite. But yes the older I get the more I like the cold.

Oh, and that was supposed to be 75°F. I don't know what the hell I was thinking. I surely wouldn't like 167°F (75 F), if I don't like anything above 75°F !

I agree, R30. One can always put on more clothes and huddle under blankets, but the heat is rotten. And the AC gives me sinus problems. I love spring and fall and every year I try to get out in them as much as possible--I may even take up gardening, which I was never attracted to. But the high summer just means too much heat and then the inevitable western wildfires. I'm thinking of getting a gas mask.

Summer sucks. Not just the heat but all the happy things you are supposed to be doing outside.

Nothing you know about real summer until you visit any of the Persian gulf states. I arrived there 1st of August very late night. It was very hot and humid, but I waked up around 1 PM and looked from the window and found a park across the street that overlooked the gulf, so I decided to go out and see the beach. Never ever in my life I have felt like that before. It was like getting inside a pizza oven. In few seconds I was all sweaty and felt like my skin was burning. An average of very humid115 F for 4 months of the year and between 100 and 115 F for 5 months.

You flip flop haters have never worn a pair of OluKais.

We live in fear of a power outage in the summer. We would have to get in the car and drive until we found a town not affected by the outage and get a hotel room. It is that unbearable.

[QUOTE] You flip flop haters have never worn a pair of OluKais.

Men shouldn’t be walking around with their toes exposed.

R68- As said up thread, that is nasty.

OP- Forget about September. I'm counting the days until DECEMBER.

I am planting my Spider flowers now so they can bloom in the fall. Beautiful fall flowers. It is very difficult to believe what a sun baby I once was, 😆

Clean, well groomed and slightly tan feet are sexy. Socks and pasty white, gnarly feet are not.

London is going to be 26c or above for the next two weeks and barely any homes have aircon. We actually got a Daekin inside/outside unit for the bedroom back in 2006 and have never regretted it

Are y'all going naked around the house?

R73- You call 79 degrees fahrenheit HOT?

You don't know what hot is.

It's been over 32 degrees celsius every day since Saturday where I am just north of NYC, and HUMID.

Hot + Humid= MISERABLE

[quote] London is going to be 26c or above for the next two weeks

Oh my heavens — 79F — how will you you survive?!

I felt ill on Monday, drained of all energy and I had to take acetaminophen. From the heat and humidity.

Yet there are ENDLESS threads here on DL about QUEENS who talks about moving to HOT climates when they retire or now- Florida, Arizona, California- Palm Springs

Who the HELL would want to live in Palm Springs when the temp is 115 degrees in June , July and August.

I watched a documentary called Desert Migration about older gay men with HIV. This one QUEEN says- I arrived at Palm Springs at 10 pm and was getting off the plane and it was 100 degrees and I LOVED it.

He sounds like an OLD LIZARD.

If I’m coming off a plane and it was 100 degrees, I’d turn around and get back on it.

R79- LOL

The waves of heat and humidity just about knock you off your feet. As R77 is saying, it can make you very sick very quickly. R73- Can I spend the summer with you? 😁

Drink lots of water, guys!

I love summers in the Hudson Valley. Never too hot. If it does get hot, go up to Lake Minnewaska for a cool swim.

Of course right now we are having a freakish heat wave, but that should be over with soon.

I'm drinking water all day. Scary that I don't piss more often. That is how much I'm sweating in the heat. Disgusting!

R84- It's not scary. Your body is retaining the water because of the heat. I've been pissing very little lately. I ate fruit and salads almost every day so that in the cooler months I'm peeing all day.

I’m confused about the comments about Las Vegas and southwest US states. Yes, it gets very hot there, but is it humid, too? I thought it was dry as a bone for the most part.

A 95° day with low humidity is actually more bearable to me than 79° and high humidity. Like after it rained late this afternoon here in NYC, the temperature had dropped somewhat from 91° to whatever, but the humidity was off the charts after the rain. It felt like a steam bath outside when I walked my dog.

[QUOTE] I'm drinking water all day. Scary that I don't piss more often. That is how much I'm sweating in the heat. Disgusting!

Drinking water all day doesn’t do shit for me. I need Powerade Zero to stay properly hydrated when I’m sweating a lot.

Las Vegas is a dry heat, but still unpleasant. Same a Palm Springs, dry heat and unpleasant.

R88- Of course Las Vegas and Palm Springs are unpleasant they are both located in a DESERT.

[quote] I’m confused about the comments about Las Vegas and southwest US states. Yes, it gets very hot there, but is it humid, too? I thought it was dry as a bone for the most part.

R86 asked, so that's why I commented about LV and PS. Geez.

Always have pedialyte at home. Buy the powdered kind, you get 6 or 7 in a box in various flavors. When you get sick, or when it's super hot, or for the morning after a night of heavy drinking...very handy!

Exactly r86! I live in the south and it’s been cooler here - 80 on average but even in the morning at 70 degrees - I instantly broke a sweat after stepping out the door.

I dislike Powerade but I'm hooked on this Gatorade flavor, no longer sold in stores.

It's 90 here from June through September, but given the depressing situation I left behind up north, I'm fine with that.

You Klan fuckers mocking Londoners don't get it. We have NO AIR CON IN OUR HOMES.

R95- It's VERY late in the UK. Why are you still up?

Why don’t you have air conditioners, R95?

R97- Because he's one of the POORS

Summer needs to be fucking destroyed. I hate everything about it.

That said, I live in LA and I know we have it better than most.

R76, most of them don’t have AC. Being on the second floor with no AC will make 79 feel like 95.

R99- The people who LOVE summer need to be DESTROYED.

The increased temperatures are causing the proliferation of brain-eating amoebas in fresh water rivers and lakes. Never go swimming in such untreated places, lest you accidentally get some water in your nostrils and sinuses and the amoebas are allowed access to your brain.

The best thing about summer used to be the scantily clad hot men, but with social media I get that so much year-round that it barely draws my attention when I see them now.

R57 thinks there's only one flip flop troll

[quote]You Klan fuckers mocking Londoners don't get it. We have NO AIR CON IN OUR HOMES.

You dummies in England better start getting air conditioning into your homes then because with climate change your summers are only going to keep getting hotter as well.

I haven’t left home in days because it’s been so hot and muggy.

Why is "KLAN' everyone's favorite insult these days on here?

I usually gain weight in the summer, the heat makes me unmotivated to do any physical activity and all I want to do is sit in the AC. This summer Im keeping a pretty strict diet and fasting in the mornings so I dont have 20 pounds to lose by the time fall gets here.

R6. I live in San Diego. The climate is temperate and moderate, but it by no means perfect. Yes, La Jolla is pretty and wealthy, but at times, it's the cloudiest, gloomiest area of the city. Yes, the "climate" in San Diego is mostly milder than the rest of the country, but the "weather" is a different thing entirely. Throughout the year, we have seasons that granted are not always like other seasonal changes throughout the country, but we do experience weather. Our winters, mostly Nov-March/April can be cold and rainy, particularly Dec through March. These winter and early spring months are not beach weather. While there are are those periodic February days when it can get warm and suny, generally you won't find anyone at the beach because it's freezing. We wear jackets, sweaters, flannels just everyone else. It's just that our cold temps in Dec-Jan go into the 40s and not zero, 10s and 20s. I know, it's a big difference, but we still heat in our houses for several months in a row--and utilities here are expensive. Some winters can be fairly dry, while during other years it rains continually.

While the rest of the country is starting to experience summer in May and June, we have what's known as "May gray/June gloom" when we can have overcast skies for days on end. Often times it clears by noon, but sometimes it never clears. This "marine layer" of clouds is the biggest kept secret in the country because everyone thinks it's sunny and 72 degrees all the time here when it's not. Sometimes the May gray/June gloom can cover the whole region, and sometimes we just have a mild case and it's sunny and beautiful. July is generally nice, but in the recent many years, parts of July, August and some of September is now full of oppressive humidity, which was was the case years ago.

So yes, overall, it's milder than other places...sometimes cold, often times hot or moderate. Sometimes cloudy and rainy, sometimes sunny and beautiful. Nights can be cool or cold because the Southwest is basically a desert--often times "a paved desert" that looks like a city, but nonetheless with desert temperatures. I'm not complaining. I'm simply trying to give a realistic picture of San Diego weather versus San Diego climate.

^^R109 here again...I'm originally from the East Coast, so I know extreme cold, rain and oppressive humidity. But I love the East Coast because there is more to life than just weather. There are advantages and disadvantages wherever you live.

Yeah, sorry, R109. My mom lives in San Diego. No one in the entire world feels sorry for you or for whatever minor weather or climate gripes you have.

Seriously, shut it.

Cracked heels, thick yellow toe nails, missing toe nails. No.

R109 is goldilocks.

Dissertation on San Diego weather!

I honestly don’t think I’ve left my house in an entire week because I hate the heat. I can’t even remember it’s been so long. I’ll stay inside in the air conditioning.