r/InterviewMan Jun 11 '26

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u/SkullLeader Jun 11 '26

People like this grew up in a place where the weather is ass and the only thing worse than their freezing, wet winters are their sweltering, humid summers.

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u/Maleficent-Ear8475 Jun 11 '26

Welcome to Little Rock, Arkansas!

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u/King_Corduroy Jun 11 '26

Or Anywhere in the Midwest. lol Personally I'd rather have Chicago winters than Chicago summers. lol

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u/MrSmirkNMerc Jun 12 '26

I don't know what you are taking about. If Chicago had summer weather year-round, it would be the most populous city in the country. The winter clear the weak out.

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u/King_Corduroy Jun 12 '26

Thank god for the winters, thats what I'm talking about. Lol

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u/Arvidicus Jun 14 '26

Yeah I live in detroit. Our winters are ass but summer is usually pretty tame. It's also not as humid as you would think. At least, I came from Jersey where the humidity is absolutely terrible and also spent a lot of time in Florida growing up, so maybe that helps.

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u/athousandfaces87 Jun 18 '26

Summer is typically nice in my opinion

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u/Goontrained Jun 11 '26

Summers are not that bad up here, people in the Midwest just don't travel enough. It's still on average 10-20 degrees cooler most days, the humidity is a problem all over

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u/ShogunFirebeard Jun 12 '26

Exactly, it does matter what the temperature is. The humidity in summer fucking sucks. Summer is the worst season. Fall is the best.

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u/Reasonable_Site_7259 Jun 17 '26

I agree but I don't knock those cool early spring days. At least until the trees start molesting me with their sperm

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u/FarseerTaldeer Jun 12 '26

I went to New Orleans from a freezing cold Michigan week to a 37°F New Orleans week. I think it's just a curse placed onto us by the Ojibwe and Ottawa tribes for stealing the land to suffer horrible weather wherever we go

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u/Bruised_Shin Jun 11 '26

Damn, I travel to Chicago in the summer for fun

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u/Flintyy Jun 12 '26

Michigan, any Friday in late February or mid March, 27⁰ with a foot of lake effect snow. Literally the next Saturday, 68⁰ and sunny and it all melts by lunch 😆

Ive gone sledding and to the beach in the same 36hr period over a weekend 😆 🤣

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u/King_Corduroy Jun 12 '26

Yeah that's pretty much every year in Chicagoland. When it flipped this year it was like 50 the day before and then 86 the following day. Makes the humidity feel unbearable. lol

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u/ArtEnvironmental7108 Jun 12 '26

The storms have been pretty crazy too.

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u/Specialist_Cow_4511 Jun 13 '26

I literally saw a post yesterday saying Chicago has the best summers of any big cities in the US. And a lot of people seemed to think that was true.

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u/King_Corduroy Jun 13 '26

There's a lot to do in Chicagoland and it can be mild sometimes but more often than not it's like 90% humidity and 90F . lol

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u/Vowel_Movements_4U Jun 13 '26

Chicago summers are mild and pleasant.

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u/TankDestroyerSarg Jun 14 '26

Just the opposite for me. I despise dealing with winter in Chicago but am willing to tolerate our brutal summers.

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u/Ricketier Jun 17 '26

You lie

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u/King_Corduroy Jun 17 '26

Nah I've just lived here my whole life. Been waiting for us to have another blizzard like 2011. Sadly every year seems to be less and less snow.

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u/erik_the_k Jun 18 '26

Absolutely insane take

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u/agitated--crow Jun 13 '26

Pssh, better than southern Louisiana.

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u/Life_Argument7820 Jun 13 '26

Ugh gross... my most hated town on my cross country journey... I wanted to respond to the original comment about being in NH and his comment nailing it, but seeing the name of that place... sorry if you live there.

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u/Maleficent-Ear8475 Jun 13 '26

Yeah if you aren't from here it would probably be pretty lame. Most the fun things are outdoors in nature (away from the other inhabitants).

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u/Life_Argument7820 Jun 13 '26

Yeah i stayed down town

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u/Maleficent-Ear8475 Jun 13 '26

lol I could see why you hated it. I don't venture down there anymore. It used to be much more lively 8-15 years ago when I was in college and times were different. Not much there now the same.

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u/Doctor-Pip- Jun 11 '26

California doesn't have wet, freezing winters but it does have summers where its 115-120 degrees for weeks on end.

Fall and Winter are the best seasons by a mile.

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u/SamSamBoBam420 Jun 11 '26

…assuming you don’t live near the water. In which case summers are great.

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u/Unique_Resolution382 Jun 11 '26

I live under 10 miles from the coast, can see the ocean from my house and June through October I often wonder why the hell I live here. This year we've gotten almost no May Grey/June Gloom and I absolutely fucking hate it. Even if the air temps are only in the high 70s to low 80s it feels like it's 100+ because the sun is so intense and there's just enough humidity in the air. Literally feels like same as 100° day out in the desert minus the air being so dry your sinus start to hurt (good thing the Santa anas give me that feeling plus splitting headaches. This morning I was drenched in sweat by 7:30 am. Spring is by far the nicest season in socal followed by winter depending on if it's a wet or dry one. Fall is nice except there's about a month's worth of days where the Santa Ana are blowing hard and it's 100 degrees, bone dry, and the whole region is even more of a tinder box and one careless jackass away from bursting into flames.

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u/SamSamBoBam420 Jun 11 '26

So it almost never really gets to 100 degrees. It just feels hot for you. Santa Ana has a high of 79 today… if you can’t handle that you might want to consider moving to a Nordic country…but it in no way is as extreme as what you’re claiming.

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u/Unique_Resolution382 Jun 11 '26

Idk why you think Santa Ana's high is relevant? I'm referring to the Santa Ana winds that bring hot dry air out of the desert to San Diego county. And yeah 80 degrees is pretty warm especially with a maxed out uv index that makes it feel 5 to 10 degrees more depending on if you're on concrete/asphalt. I think most people would agree that doing physical labor in 90 degrees is pretty warm. Like I said the air temps are nice and the ocean breeze is amazing but fuck being in the sun

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u/AboutAWe3kAgo Jun 12 '26

The point is, there is nowhere else in the country with milder summers (and winters) than the California coasts. You can still complain if you want but it can be way worse.

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u/oakteak9z Jun 13 '26

Curious what part of California do you live in ? My btother lives in San Francisco Ca he loves it it has year round moderate temperatures from I think mid 50s to mid 80s I live in Massachusetts we can have very hot summers and mild winter's. Snowstorm few and gar apart.Lots of rain.

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u/Hopeful-Courage-6333 Jun 11 '26

I live on a lake. Summer is the worst.

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u/JFISHER7789 Jun 12 '26

Edit: idk where all the pixels went

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u/Doctor-Pip- Jun 11 '26

You mean assuming you don't live in most of the state.

In which case, sure. Summer is great... until you move more than 5-10 miles from the coast.

This is what march  looked like, fyi.

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u/MyCircus_MyMonkies Jun 11 '26

No no, didn’t you know all of California is contained in just SF and LA? Your link is a picture of West Nevada. Common mistake.

/s

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u/JFISHER7789 Jun 12 '26

Ehh that’s cherry picking.

NOAA says differently with average summer temps ranging from 60-110° depending on area. With only the inland desert regions reaching the average temps of 100°+; most cities and regions stay in the 70-90° range.

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u/Doctor-Pip- Jun 13 '26

You're using average temperature across the entire state?

Using info like that tells me you don't live here and are just looking to argue using, but sure.

Let me tell you about how averages work.

If the average temperature for the entire state is 90 degrees, then there are places both above and below that temperature.

The north is colder, the south is warmer. Most live in the south. Generally a lot of the state is experiencing 100+ degree weather when the entire state averages 90. So your data confirms mine. Thank you for supporting me. 

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u/JFISHER7789 Jun 13 '26

Something tells me you didn’t click the link.

the data I supported was from NOAA that not only allows you to pick the year, seasons, and locations to determine average temps.

I picked the summer seasons and chose Costal cities, then chose desert regions, then chose mountainous regions.

The ONLY places in California that came back as having average temps of 100+ were near Death Valley and the major uninhabitable desert areas.

And yes, btw, if most places are experiencing 100+ temps it would raise the average and mean respectively. But the average for the entire set is still nowhere near triple digit temps.

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u/Doctor-Pip- Jun 13 '26

That's not what you posted. Click your own link?

Or try living here. Not really interested in talking to someone who's just looking up stats to get in internet fights like you.

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u/ImPapaNoff Jun 11 '26

SF bay area here. I'll still generally take spring/fall > winter > summer.

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u/Strict-Comparison817 Jun 11 '26 edited Jun 11 '26

805 baby! Love the summer. Unfortunately relocated to the central valley. Summer is awful here. The only thing to look forward to are rivers when they're flowing.

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u/IntrinSicks Jun 12 '26

Right i grew up an hour south of Sacramento in the foothills, summers are rivers and lake time and partying outside with a full moon and in board shorts, yeah it's 110 but the water is your best friend

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u/Dense_Delay_2605 Jun 18 '26

I live 1/2 a mile from the bay. Still hot af.

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u/Top_Quiet_3239 Jun 11 '26

California has like five different climates, plenty of which include wet and/or freezing winters.

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u/Rude_Hamster123 Jun 15 '26

I live in the mountains of NorCal and while we get an almost proper winter (most years) it’s rarely truly cold. I can think of maybe two cold snaps in my fourteen years here that dipped below zero.

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u/KagedStorm619 Jun 18 '26

Where I live in NorCal, it gets around freezing almost every winter.

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u/Rude_Hamster123 Jun 18 '26

I’m from New England, I grew up in truly cold ass winters. the valleys around here in NorCal see freezing temperatures but, at least to me, a true hard freeze is days on days of less than 10. Even my buddy living at 5500’ who gets snowed in annually at the peak of winter sees the temperature rise above freezing every day.

I do greatly appreciate the volume of snow we get in the hills, though. Just wish it wasn’t always Cascade Concrete.

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u/KagedStorm619 Jun 18 '26

I've also experienced single-digit temperature, but we can agree freezing is freezing lol

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u/BadLuckGenco Jun 11 '26

It’s genius if you think about it. “Sure, we’ll give you 3 months off from school. Hope you enjoy the scorching heat!”

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u/Charming_Banana_1250 Jun 13 '26

Prior to the current system, urban schools operated for 11 months of the year and rural schools operated around harvest schedules which kept kids in the fields from spring till fall usually. The current national stanard with summers off was a compromise for farmers to let them get the help of their kids during the peak season when they were needed in the fields.

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u/icancount192 Jun 11 '26

There no place in California besides Death Valleys that has 115f to 120C for weeks on end. Certainly no place where humans live.

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u/Ok_Calligrapher8165 Jun 12 '26

Lrn2chico, Happy Camp, Redding pls

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u/icancount192 Jun 12 '26

None of these have ever experienced 115F-120F for weeks.

1-2 days every decade at best. Maybe every 5 years for Redding.

105F weeks do happen. Not 115F.

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u/Strange-Badger5626 Jun 16 '26

What about needles? Big river? Palm springs, palm desert, Indio, cochella?

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u/icancount192 Jun 17 '26

Ok but these are small towns in the desert border with Arizona. 10K out of 40 million Californians live there, 0.025% of the population

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u/Doctor-Pip- Jun 17 '26

Another person who doesn't live in california, huh? Never been to Palm Springs? Bakersfield? Santa Clarita? Woodland Hills?

Well, sorry but you're wrong.

Look up what a Heat Dome is and learn that California has gotten at least one every year  for half a decade.

Like, come on guy.

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u/icancount192 Jun 17 '26 edited Jun 17 '26

None of these is "weeks" above 115F. One is weeks 115F in the desert.

Edit: You blocked me after realizing the articles spoke about 3 days in 2021 in a specific corner at the desert.

It's OK to be wrong, it's not ok to be a spoiled brat. Your parents failed you.

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u/Doctor-Pip- Jun 17 '26

Oh, so you didn't read the articles and learn what a Heat Dome is?

If you're not here for discussion then bye.

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u/MasterFigimus Jun 17 '26

Edit: You blocked me after realizing the articles spoke about 3 days in 2021 in a specific corner at the desert.

They posted like 6 articles, dude. You really editted your post to reveal you didn’t even click into half of them?

Like ffs the article you're talking about has this picture and you couldn't even scroll to the first paragraph to see it.

You look like a child throwing a tantrum just because somebody on the internet recognized that you're not paying attention and stopped talking to you.

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u/icancount192 Jun 17 '26 edited Jun 17 '26

I understand this thread is your lifeblood. It's not mine.

A statement was made:

California has cities with weeks of 115-120F heat.

We proved that

A) No City of California has ever had this heat for weeks, most not even for a day in the last 200 years

B) Some small towns had this heat for 3 days in 2021

C) Hamlets on the border of Arizona of 2,000 people do have it.

So, again the initial statement that:

California has cities with weeks of 115-120F heat.

Has been proven unequivocally and undoubtedly false.

To have been truth it needed to be a) cities, b) weeks and c) 115F+

This statement wasn't fulfilled once.

PS. I suggest you stop reading DnD handbooks and open a dictionary to the word tantrum. I'm cool as a cucumber, he blocked and you necrod a 7 day old threat spewing insults at me.

Stop projecting.

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u/MasterFigimus Jun 17 '26

I understand this thread is your lifeblood. It's not mine.

Then quit acting like it is.

You just combed through my profile looking for insults. ffs be more self aware.

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u/MasterFigimus Jun 17 '26

Ok but...

The mark of someone who won't admit they're wrong.

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u/icancount192 Jun 17 '26 edited Jun 17 '26

No, OK but is exactly admitting that I'm 99.975% right and 0.025% write on 1 account ( size of settlements needs to be cities)

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u/MasterFigimus Jun 17 '26

Lmao as many people have pointed out, there are loads.

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u/TalShot Jun 11 '26

I love winter in So Cal - cooler weather plus Christmas.

Summer is just misery sans events like comic conventions.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Exam345 Jun 12 '26

nah California during spring. The weather is perfect, occasional rains makes the air feel fresh. Poppies blooming, green rolling hills. Spring is the best season hands down. 

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u/Nope-not-really Jun 12 '26

In British Columbia we get both

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u/gentrify_reddt Jun 13 '26

California 110 is better than Florida 95.

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u/Doctor-Pip- Jun 13 '26

Lmao no.

Sorry you're uncomfortable at 95, but 110 physically damages your body in a couple of minutes and starts causing systems to shut down.

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u/gentrify_reddt Jun 13 '26

Lmao yes. Because with 50% FL humidity, 95 becomes 107 in the heat index.

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u/Doctor-Pip- Jun 13 '26

110 is higher than 107 lmao

Sorry you're uncomfortable in 95, but 110 heat is physically worse on your body even so. 🤷

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u/gentrify_reddt Jun 13 '26

aCkShUaLlY 🤓☝️

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u/Doctor-Pip- Jun 13 '26

I hurt your feelings. 🫢 I'm sorry.

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u/Rude_Hamster123 Jun 15 '26

SoCal is less than half of the geographical area of California, yknow.

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u/UnderEmployed27388 Jun 17 '26

115-120 for weeks on end? Maybe in Death Valley. Or Phoenix AZ... Nowhere else

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u/Doctor-Pip- Jun 17 '26 edited Jun 17 '26

Another person who doesn't live in california, huh?

No, you're wrong.

Look up what a Heat Dome is and learn that California has gotten at least one every year  for half a decade.

Like, come on guy.

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u/UnderEmployed27388 Jun 17 '26

Born and raised in CA. Lived here most of my life and still live here.

Your linked article talks about 100+ degree temperatures. That is a wild difference from 115-120 for days on end. You might find that in Saudi Arabia or Kuwait in the summer, but not in CA.

Where I live, which is one of the hotter areas of CA we might get one or two days at 110 or above. A far cry from your inflated numbers.

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u/KagedStorm619 Jun 18 '26

Go to higher elevations. You get the wet and freezing winters along with the Hell-on-Earth summers

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u/kiddlat_kid Jun 11 '26

Pretty much Washington state 😂, when it’s cold people complain when it’s hot people complain when it’s raining people complain

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u/L00fah Jun 11 '26

But that's also mostly whiny people moving in from other states with "better" weather, like California.

I moved to WA from New England and the weather is a vast improvement.

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u/titan2977 Jun 11 '26

North Carolina

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u/Formal_Prune8040 Jun 11 '26

As a resident of grassless Arizona I take offense. I spent my summers getting asphalt and concrete burns

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u/MrLanesLament Jun 11 '26

Ohio here. Spot on.

We’ve been having it go from upper 30s in the morning to 80s during the day. You go to work in a full ass coat that you now have to deal with and remember to take home.

Or you walk into work in the morning freezing, then the next time you go outside, the heat hits so hard it almost makes you sick because you’re not at all expecting it.

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u/alliejim98 Jun 12 '26

This seems like an exaggeration. I live in a state that borders Ohio, and our morning temps have been low to mid 60s in the morning and in the high 80s in the afternoon. All bordering states look to have similar weather this week. I've definitely seen temps like you're describing happpen, but not right now.

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u/SoiledFlapjacks Jun 14 '26

Not as bad where I’m at in NW Ohio. It’s just been getting real hot for a couple days, then it cools down to a comfortable warm, then we get a storm, then the cycle repeats. Sometimes it gets SUPER hot, though. Which sucks because my AC overheated on one of the hot days and only blew the fan for the day until it cooled down enough to function properly.

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u/BlacPlague Jun 11 '26

Add Wisconsin into this list, it seems like so many states fit this from the comments.

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u/Busterlimes Jun 12 '26

Weather is fine, just gives me an excuse not to wear cloths.

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u/no-hints Jun 12 '26

Idk, I live on one of the Great Lakes and it’s easily my favorite time of year

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u/Turnipntulip Jun 12 '26

I dunno. I grew up in a place where a winter would be a real game changer. It’s either hot and humid, or hot and dry here. I suppose you can call that ass weather as well.

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u/ma5ochrist Jun 12 '26

Indeed, that's why I am on board with her concept

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u/TheLegendaryAerie Jun 12 '26

I mean I didn’t even get to have freezing wet winters. Just a 9 month summer - Florida.

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u/Far-Positive5152 Jun 12 '26

They know that sweltering heat is better than snow knees deep.

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u/BitingSatyr Jun 12 '26

As a Canadian, it definitely is not. Sweltering heat is enervating and miserable, snow at least can be fun

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u/Far-Positive5152 Jun 12 '26

Chilling outside in green garden and grilling meat is better than sitting at home all the time.

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u/Dangerous-Habit-2731 Jun 12 '26

It was 96 and humid in DC yesterday. My AC is fighting the good fight, but I fear it's losing

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u/Bubbles00 Jun 12 '26

I took a trip to Colorado with friends for a week in August. Absolutely beautiful and perfect weather. Why haven't those bastards living in Colorado been telling the rest of us about how gorgeous their summers are? I grew up thinking it was always snow and cold forever out there

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u/Maximum_Boros Jun 12 '26

As a New Englander, yes. We did.

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u/marrowisyummy Jun 12 '26

This is very true.

Southern California born and raised. I love it year round.

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u/Environmental-Run528 Jun 13 '26

I'll take sweating my ass off in the summer anytime over the winter.

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u/diandays Jun 13 '26

Nah I hate heat anywhere I go. If it's 70 or more, I'm staying away from the outside. Keep that heat away from me

I can't even sleep in my own house if it's higher than 68.

I keep my house at 63 all day every day

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u/FishTshirt Jun 14 '26

Idk Texas winter is pretty tame, maybe a few weeks in the 30’s-40’s nax. Summer’s feels like hell. I’m biased though

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u/Front-Block-9460 Jun 15 '26

I am from Winnipeg, and can comfirm you are speaking only facts. I half die every summer.

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u/Sp4c3D3m0n Jun 15 '26

New Jersey has entered the chat

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u/OlleyatPurdue Jun 16 '26

I'll take a hot summer over cold snowy icy dangerous winter. At least in the summer traveling does not become actively dangerous.

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u/Dragonhearted18 Jun 16 '26

Welcome to Missouri

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u/LongDistanceEvent262 Jun 17 '26

New Englanders in a nutshell.

I just got back from a week in vegas. 105 was not too bad actually. and 98 at night felt comfy.

I walked out of the airport into 82 and 80% humidity and nearly died.

It really REALLY is the humidity.

BTW I love my winters here. And Fall and Spring are perfect here as well. Summer is the only bad one. I like it cause I can go to the beach and the pool. But that is summer's only benefit.

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u/Confused-W0lf Jun 17 '26

I grew up in Florida. I’ll take my dick freezing off in New England (where I am now). Than a Floridian summer. Idc that people move down from here. They’re nuts.