Yes this is it for me. Quiet winter night after fresh snow, with the orange glow of incandescent lights (not LEDs, fuck that). Being able to make the first footprints in the snow.
Same thought. Best wearher is dry, not windy and warm enough for a t-shirt, cold enough to keep you cool. Sometimes jacket weather is good if you need to wear one for protection
I miss Midwestern storms. Wind that'll take you off your feet, the smell of tornadoes, the storm head like there's an ocean in fhe sky and the world's about to end… Gives me something fierce of a headache but beautiful as it gets.
I love the pnw and overcast and slightly rainy is great, but without a little attempted murder how am I supposed to feel like the sky loves me?
Moving from the midwest to PNW was weird this way, it was midway through the summer before I looked at the sky and thought, we've never had a storm here, not a flash of lightning or a rumble of thunder. Just pissy rain every morning that clears up into a lovely, chilly afternoon.
We had one night a couple years ago with more lightning than the total I had ever seen in my life before (and since) then. I'm guessing it was like a weak storm in the Midwest.
My favorite is in early spring, just after all the leaves come fully out but before they darken to their summer colors.
Driving/riding through dense woods on a still, sunny day (with the windows down, if in car) everything smells fresh and crisp, and the sun streams through the neon green leaves.
That's definitely #3. I think #1/2 are split between the same weather, but in the far distance as the bright sun overhead warms you up in early spring just enough to spare you the otherwise chill air in spring, and a bright sunny day in the late spring at the beach doing the same for the cool water.
#4 is a bright, clear day in the mountains in the winter, with fresh powder on the ground.
Perfect in every way. I didn't realize I was a 'rain person' until I moved from horrifying sunny Southern California to Northern (in the mountains). The first fall/winter dumped around 100 inches and literally washed out about 15 feet of driveway that fell into the creek below.
That's pretty good definitely top 5, but I'll go with a quiet night after it snows and not even the plows are out yet.
it has been years since last time I've seen snow irl.
The absolute silence of fresh snow. Heaven.
Yes this is it for me. Quiet winter night after fresh snow, with the orange glow of incandescent lights (not LEDs, fuck that). Being able to make the first footprints in the snow.
I like the first big night snow of the year when the sky turns pink from all the light pollution reflecting off the flakes.
I don’t like snow or winter though. :)