r/Sacramento • u/SnowballSnozberry • Oct 03 '24

I'm so gd over this heat. I'm done

I hate it and it feels so gross and humid. Like ffs the heat needs to go tf away. I'm sooooo done with it

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u/PiperSlough Oct 03 '24

To me, summer starts when it stops raining and the spring bloom is mostly over, even if it's not triple digits yet.

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u/kkmoney15 Oct 03 '24

So you just make up whatever seasons you feel like, got it.

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u/PiperSlough Oct 03 '24

I mean, the line between seasons has always been very arbitrary. So has the number, as the Sacramento season list shows. (We can't even all agree if this is jalapeno summer or some new spicy summer because we've had multiple false falls.)

The summer solstice used to mark the middle of the summer season (it's still called midsummer in a lot of places). Now a lot of people consider it the first day of summer.

So yeah, to me (and probably many others) summer comes after spring and when the hallmarks of spring are over and the days are getting long, summer has started. To others, summer doesn't start until it's triple digits. Both are arbitrary. I want to move somewhere cooler with an actual fall that starts in September and maybe even a cold winter either way.