winter or summer
By BRIJENDRA
@BRIJENDRA (926)
India
39 responses
@margieanneart (26423)
• United States
1 Feb 07
I like winter the most. I love the cold weather so very much. I live in a desert, it is so hot that
I hate the summers.
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@BRIJENDRA (926)
• India
2 Feb 07
I too like winter as we get plenty of green vegetables and variety of fruits at cheaper rate.I enjoyed winter season too much.In winter as such there is no problem of digestion too.
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@blanksolid (1631)
• Spain
2 Feb 07
I prefeer winter season because there are cold days with snow so i love snow and cold, in my oppinion i would like to have winter all year, have a nice day on mylot and happy earnings also.
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@BRIJENDRA (926)
• India
2 Feb 07
Hallo,
Spring season is universally liked by most of the people because in this season one can neither face the problem of cold not hot.
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@BRIJENDRA (926)
• India
2 Feb 07
Hallo,
It seems that you belong to a rich family as winter is a season for the rich person. You can have plenty of green vegetables and so on.....
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@babystar1 (4233)
• United States
2 Feb 07
Summer is for me,I love the summer time.You can go outside and plant your flowers and get your garden started. Winter is nasty, I hate the cold,wind snow and ice.Wish it was summer here all year around.
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@BRIJENDRA (926)
• India
2 Feb 07
Summer season is made for poor person and winter season for rich person.The poor can accommodate in any circumstances and have no tension for many things arrangement as it is required in winter.In summer one can face the problem of digestion.
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@wolfie34 (26771)
• United Kingdom
3 Feb 07
I actually prefer the Spring, but if I had to choose between the two I would choose winter because it is far easier to warm up than it is cool down, I can't function properly in the heat, well in the UK we get humid summers and they are very uncomfortable.
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@kapil4u (393)
• India
22 Dec 06
Actually speaking both the seasons are unbearable... but i love summer cos we can atleast enjoy our outing... we can play around and we can assured that we'l have our work done...In winter we can't assure when it'l rain, and it'l make our skin dry and ugly... in summer you have the privilege of viewing beautiful flowers in the garden whereas in winter you can't....
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@BRIJENDRA (926)
• India
2 Feb 07
Hallo,
You are right in saying that both the seasons are unbearable.
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@sweetlady10 (3611)
• United States
2 Feb 07
I prefer summer. It's comfortable outside in summer. And I enjoy rain most in the summer season. In winter when temparature goes bellow 0 degree I just hate that. In such kind of cold you never feel comfortable going outside.
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@BlaKy2 (1475)
• Romania
2 Feb 07
Summer
Summer is a season that is astronomically defined as beginning around June 21, and ending around September 23 in the Northern Hemisphere. In the Southern Hemisphere, summer begins around December 21 and ends around March 21. Summer is defined by convention in meteorology as the whole months of June, July, and August, in the Northern Hemisphere, and the whole months of December, January, and February, in the Southern Hemisphere. The unofficial start of summer is a matter of convention: in Ireland it is as early as May 1, in many countries it is considered to be June 1, while in others it is as late as July 1. In general, seasonal changes occur earlier in coastal regions, so countries close to the oceans go for an earlier start to summer than inland ones. Summer is commonly viewed as the season with the longest (and warmest) days of the year, in which the daylight predominates, through varying degrees. In the northern latitudes, twilight is known to last at least an hour, sometimes leading to the famous white nights found in St. Petersburg and Scandinavia. It is also called the season of the midnight sun near the North Pole: in northern Norway, for instance.
For many people in the West, the seasons are considered to start at the equinoxes and solstices in an "astronomical" sense. However, because the seasonal lag is less than 1/8 of a year (except near large bodies of water), the "meteorological" start of the season precedes, by about three weeks, the start of the "astronomical" season. This time differential keeps the "meteorological" definition more symmetrically centered around the warmest part of the year than the "astronomical one" is. Today, the "meteorological" definition is gaining momentum, but the "astronomical" definition is more frequent, and most people today still regard it as "official". In fact, the equinoxes and solstices of the astronomical seasons are considered to be the naturally official beginnings of seasons. The astronomical seasons still appear on most calendars. Elsewhere, however, the solstices and the equinoxes are taken to mark the mid-points, not the beginning, of the seasons. In Chinese astronomy, for example, summer starts on or around May 6, with the jiéqì (solar term) known as Lixia (??), i.e. "establishment of summer". An example of Western usage would be William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, where the play takes place over the shortest night of the year, which is the summer solstice.
In Southern and Southeast Asia where the monsoon occurs, summer is more generally defined as March to May or early June, their warmest time of the year, ending with the onset of the monsoon rains.
In most countries children are out of school during this time of year, although dates vary. Some begin as early as mid-May, although in England, from the ages of 5-16, school ends in the middle of July. In the Southern Hemisphere, school holiday dates include the major holidays of Christmas and New Year's Day. Summer school holidays in Australia begin a few days before Christmas and end in late January to mid-February, with the dates varying from state to state. Summer is also the season in which many fruits, vegetables, and other plants are in full growth.
@lameran (1147)
• Indonesia
3 Feb 07
In my country there is no winter season, I want to try hold snow in my hands hikz T__T.
there is only a rainny and summer season in my country, and right now is still rainny season. actually I more enjoy on rainny season than on summer season, since the wind is cool and makes me sleepy all the time ^^!, but rainny season on my country often become a disasters, like in my capital city right now is having a heavy flood in the middle of the city, the telephone line become jam, trafic all over areas, etc.
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@pooksywooksy (1006)
• Indonesia
2 Feb 07
I like summer better than winter time. Mainly because I don't like to be cold. I don't mind hot, I can always turn the a/c or the fan, on. I don't like the idea of putting a lot of clothes or thick clothes and the jacket in the winter time. So boring for me.
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@mckenziemom (522)
• United States
3 Feb 07
Winters are very beautiful here in the pacific northwest especially when it is snowing. However, I spent my childhood in very warm climates and I love the summer sun!! I would have to choose the summer. Mainly for two reasons the warm summer sun and vacation, when we usually get to travel!!!
@beckyomg1 (6756)
• United States
25 Feb 07
i would have to say summer, i think that there are so many more things that you can do.
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@abhax123 (1695)
• India
21 Feb 07
Winters has to be winters
Winter is one of the four seasons of temperate zones. It is the season with the coldest days and the lowest temperatures. In areas further away from the equator, winter is often marked by cold weather.
Depending on place and culture, what is considered to be the start and end of winter vary. Contemporary meteorology takes winter to be the months of December, January, and February in the Northern Hemisphere and June, July, and August in the Southern Hemisphere. However, many cultures in Europe and East Asia consider winter to begin in November.
Meteorological winter is the season having the shortest days (which vary greatly according to latitude) and the lowest temperatures. Nighttime predominates the winter season, and in some regions it has the highest rate of precipitation as well as prolonged dampness due to permanent snow cover in such areas. During winter, Blizzards often develop and cause many transportation delays. A rare meteorological phenomenon encountered during winter is ice fog, which is composed of ice crystals suspended in the air and happening only at very low temperatures, below about -30 °C
Astronomically, it starts with the winter solstice (around December 21 in the Northern Hemisphere and June 21 in the Southern Hemisphere), and ends with the spring equinox (around March 21 in the Northern Hemisphere and September 21 in the Southern Hemisphere). In meteorology, it is by convention counted instead as the whole months of June, July and August in the Southern Hemisphere and December, January and February in the Northern Hemisphere.
However, in Celtic countries such as Ireland the winter solstice is traditionally considered as midwinter, the winter season beginning November 1 on All Hallows or Samhain. Winter ends and spring begins on Imbolc or Candlemas, which is February 1 or 2. This system of seasons is based on the length of days exclusively. The three-month period of the shortest days and weakest solar radiation occurs during November, December and January in the Northern Hemisphere (May-July in the Southern).
In Chinese astronomy (and other East Asian calendars), winter is taken to commence on or around November 7, with the Jiéqì known as (?? lì dong, literally "establishment of winter".)
In reality, the three-month period associated with the coldest average temperatures typically begins somewhere in late November or early December in the Northern Hemisphere. If "winter" is defined as the statistically coldest quarter of the year, then the astronomical definition is too late by almost all local climate standards, and the traditional English/Irish definition of November 1 (May 1 in the Southern Hemisphere) is almost always too early to fit this standard. No matter the reckoning, winter is the only season that spans two calendar years in the northern hemisphere. (In other words, there are very few temperate climates in which the vernal equinox is on average colder than the winter solstice, and very few temperate climates in which Samhain is colder than Imbolc).
What causes winter
The popular belief that winter is caused by the Earth being farther from the Sun than in summer is not true. In fact, in the Northern Hemisphere, winter occurs when the Earth is at its closest to the Sun. Winter in the Southern Hemisphere does occur when the Earth is farthest from the Sun, however the greater distance from the Sun at this time is relatively small compared to the distance from the Sun as a whole and the variation in distance from the Sun has no noticeable effect on the seasons in either hemisphere.
The tilt of the earth's axis relative to its orbital plane has a dramatic effect on the weather. The Earth is tilted at an angle of 23°27' (23 degrees 27 minutes) to the plane of its orbit, and this causes different latitudes on the Earth to directly face the Sun as the Earth moves through its orbit. It is this variation that primarily brings about the seasons. When it is winter in the Northern Hemisphere, the Southern Hemisphere faces the Sun more directly and thus experiences warmer temperatures than the Northern Hemisphere. Conversely, winter in the Southern Hemisphere occurs when the Northern hemisphere is tilted more toward the Sun. From the perspective of an observer on the Earth, the winter Sun has a lower maximum altitude in the sky than the summer Sun.
During winter in either hemisphere, the lower altitude of the Sun in winter causes the sunlight to hit that hemisphere at an oblique angle. In regions experiencing winter, the same amount of solar radiation is spread out over a larger area (see Effect of sun angle on climate). This effect is compounded by the larger distance that the light must travel through the atmosphere, allowing the atmosphere to dissipate more of this already limited heat.
@chuckt9881 (469)
• Canada
21 Feb 07
Next time, try paraphrasing instead of copying directly from Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter
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@rosie_123 (6113)
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2 Feb 07
I am a Winter person. I love the snow, the ice, and the frost. I love to look out of my window in the morning, and see my garden covered in a blanket of snow. It is so beautiful, and peaceful. I burn very easily so I absolutely hate Summer and hot weater,
@bananamanuk (835)
•
25 Feb 07
My favourite type of day is cold winters day with bright blue skies and strong winter sunshine, to me that is perfect. In terms of seasons I think each season has it's own benefits, I like the longer days of summer, but I don't like excessive heat and humidity. I like not having to get up in the dark.
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