Winter is good other than the fact when it gets to -40 for a week and you have to go to work every morning and wait for the car to warm up. The steering wheel is freezing cold for an hour.... and I usually get to where I am going before it even warms up.

Other than that, snowmobiling, skiing, skating, bonfires, and other outdoor activities make winter great. I love it when it snows, although, I hate the mess it creates in the city.

I enjoy winter because it means I can wear leather coats. Too bad it's still not cold enough here for me to wear it. :(

I fucking love winters here in Central Cali. It's nice and cold but not "there's icicles on my dick!" cold and I can always bundle up. That also gives us a good chunk of the year to have an excuse for bonfires and mad drinking dashes.

It's the summers I can't stand here.

Hey man, more to put on makes for more to take off; and that makes for a longer show. Winter is fistworthy.

I love winter, but I hate certain aspects of it.

I love bundling up in the cold, but I hate it when the wind is so sharp that it bites you. I love the snow... I hate cleaning off cars (and climbing into a ridiculously cold car).

Winter = electric blankets. <3

I'm a huge whore for snow. Being from New England, I'm a big fan of the snow, and people think I'm nuts for it. Another great moment is when you get to drive in it and you can't see more than 2 feet in front of you. Love it.

Oh, and this too...

I tend to romanticize winter. One of my favorite things is on cold rainy nights to light a fire, get a drink, and curl up on the couch with someone to watch a movie (or something ^_^ ).

Man, to have a cold rainy night in my area... Would be nice....

Winter SUCKS. Cold toilet seats are by far the worst.

So true. I love that feeling.

I love winter because crawling into a comfy bed is even better than during summer. I hate how early the sun sets, though. I feel like going to bed at 6 because it's so dark out and I always feel rushed to get my work done.

Winter in Texas is extremely nice. 70 degrees, slightly windy, and it gets dark earlier, which is nice for night person like me. Of course, the intense humidity and heat the rest of the year make up for it, but... at least it's nice for a couple months!

This sums up my post right here. Livin' in Las Vegas and it's actually really nice during Winter. But then again, you get that when you had to go three days in a row in 120F weather.

I can actually open the windows and fall asleep comfortably here. Comfortably!

My feelings exactly, I hate being hot. Having to wait for the a/c to cool down in your car, or just plain being without a/c. When you're cold you canget warm so fast! But I do hate stepping out side of the shower and freezing my ass off.

I've lived in Vegas my whole life and we had maybe 5 different times that it snowed. We just moved to Idaho and I'm looking forward to a good snow. yay.

Obviously you've never been really fucking cold as anyone that's lived somewhere it does can attest to.

(Worst is when your core temperature drops and nothing you do can manage to heat you up.)

What? Did you fall in a pool of really freezing water and stay there for more than 5 minutes? How did your core temperature drop? Please tell us, that's quite interesting.

I went hiking with my father down the Appalachian trail one summer. It rained one of the days, we had like a 13 mile hike that day, somewhere in Virginia. I'm pretty out of shape. When we got to the shelter at the end of the hike, I was wet, cold and exhausted. I also couldn't stop shivering. I was in my sleeping bag, with dry changes of clothing, lots and lots of layers, and still freezing. I had apparently exhausted myself to the point where I couldn't warm myself up.

I'd love winter, normally. Freezing air is invigorating to me in small doses. Also comfortable beds and that melting feeling when you walk from freezing cold into heated rooms is awesome. The only thing that sucks, which trumps any possible bonus is the potential that I might need to shovel my car out of snow at 5am so I can catch a 6am train which may or may not be on time due to those same weather conditions. When I return at between 6:30 and 7pm, there is the possibility of having to shovel my car out yet again in order to drive home through wet, slippery, icy slush. The potential for massive suck is there.

At least you guys get a winter. This year it's going to be a dry and warm winter. Just what Southern California needs! We're already way below our yearly rain fall. So low it might as well be negative rainfall.

Last year it was warm as well but this year is supposed to be even worse. I would kill for a 5 minute rain so it would at least feel like winter or fall.

Instead of getting a winter we're getting another spring/summer. >_> Oh well..

Yeah us Californians really have it rough, what with the mild weather and lack of toilet frost.

Yeah I know, we have to deal with fire after fire because it wont fucking rain for more than 30 seconds. Oh wait, people forget about the fact if it doesn't rain or cool down everything fucking burns.

Being in the tropics, snow is impossible. We get dry and humid "winter" season, so it's still like summer, just like the rest of the year.

Well, flying back from California in the middle of winter to find your car frosted and snowed in while you've lost a glove and your hat's inside the car (whose door is frozen shut) can do it to you. Also, digging a car out of being stuck with only a windshield scraper can get you mighty chilly.

Or just go out when it's around 35°F, really winy, and raining and then walk to work for 20 minutes. That shit chills you to the bone in no time. Extra sweatshirts and hot chocolate don't ever seem to do the job of warming you up then.

Say what? After New Year's is the best time for winter!
The snow gets thicker and frostier, and the nights are fantastic.

Look, I don't know about you guys, but I love snow and cold weather. Not to say that I love the extreme cold weather (anything below 10 F is pushing it), but I find that winter makes everything seem so much more important.
Like in the summer there's always something going on that distracts me, be it the wind blowing the grass or the sunshine for 12+ hours. And in the winter it's the opposite: everything in front of me is the most important thing. When I'm at work I'm not thinking about getting out so I can go fishing, I'm thinking about what's on the agenda. When I'm with my girlfriend it's not that I want to take her out to some expensive ass dinner, I want to cook something for her and stay in and watch a movie under a shared blanket.

Plus I've always noticed that certain music sounds so much better in the winter. Boards of Canada is a winter staple for me, along with other mellow tunes.

ps - I forgot to mention that I know exactly what the above poster means, what with the cold walks chilling you to the bone. But let's face it, in summer you'd be sweating your ass off and reeking of shit (BO), and it'd take you some time before you're able to cool off and function again.

I don't enjoy having to drive during the winter. It doesn't snow where I live (California), but it can be irritating to wait for my windshield to defrost before I can leave the complex. It usually rains a lot during winter as well, so sometimes driving through that can be a problem.

We're still wearing shorts and t-shirts over here. I just needed to put a long sleeve shirt for biking to school or else would have been a bit uncomfortable.

Seriously though, I was in New York during March one year, it was just below freezing and that really wasn't bad. Just put on long pants, a shirt and a light jacket and I was fine. I can see problems when it gets down to the 10s and single digits though.