Winter and Autumn Thread: How are you preparing? (2024 edition)

Lumeinshin · 2024-08-20T21:05:51+00:00

We had the How are you preparing for the coming heat? thread. Now that the end of summer is near, we must ask the same question for the the next weather stag...

conny

some cigs and a blanket, winter is comfy

protecteddog89

Gotta start shopping for clothes, and throwing away old clothes i never wear. Idk why i have such a hard time getting rid of clothes even if i never wear em

gingermilk

I am quite scared of the upcoming winter. It is around 15-20 celsius recently and I am already shivering. Moved off campus this year so I would also need to get my own groceries without a car, and I think I prefer starving over freezing to death for the bus that never arrives on time while carrying loaded bags.

neuken in de keuken

i'm SO excited for winter! i live in north TX and we don't get fall/autumn it get stays blazing hot for 8months out the year and then we get chilly then frozen which I'm looking forward too, despite living in the heat i have plenty of sweaters and layerable clothing

bakkin113

Eagerly awaiting it
This summer has been absolute hell for me... Feels like it lasted 10 years

sonoko

Like many here, I am looking forward to the Winter. I really find it very comfy and here in the South of England we are very lucky - we get the full spectrum of seasons but they're all rather mild. Getting dark at 4, rain tapping on the window, hot drinks, the leaves changing colour and wrapping up warm. Damn, don't get me too excited! I'm currently ordering some Winter clothes - jumpers, jackets, scarves. I love it all. I also tried to look into candles as a source of light, just to up the comfiness by that one level, but have decided it's probably not worth the effort.

Link

Ehhhhh, summer has been relatively calm. Just enjoying my last summer before senior year, so nothing of note. However for Autumn I don't really prep for it. Mostly due to the fact that the temperature remains near summer levels, so I don't really need to layer up. Winter however I haven't put any thought into it.

Malaise

I don't particularly enjoy the heat so I'm very excited that it's beginning to get colder and I can finally wear my heavier shirts again. I do however have to prepare my chicken coops for the winter and I need to spend a couple days cooking up hearty meals to freeze so I don't have to go grocery shopping super often over the winter. Probably gonna spend my winter besides checking on chickens sitting in my room reading smoking cigs and listening to Alice in Chains.

Tiwe

Mornings have been pretty hot and I've been skipping my sunscreen. Looking forward to at least cooler weather and hopefully more overcast skies this time around.

VidyaCat

My local coffee shops have already brought back their pumpkin spice flavours for coffee and confectionaries, and I for one couldn't be happier. I'm an absolute sucker for anything "fall" flavoured. It does bring a bit of melancholy that the powers that be have decided that summer is already "over" though.

sanner

I'm just counting down the days really. Winter is very beautiful where i live. I like that the sun sets around 17:00, i don't mind the light but i prefer the dark. it snows from October to March but i don't mind. I like that i can wear my big hats, coats, and scarves too. going out in the summer is just too hot!

this is a picture i took one evening in November. notice how the snow sparkles? its pretty

sonoko

sanner If you don't mind me asking, where do you live?

sanner

sonoko ON, Canada. (near the great lakes)

Giggs

This time is my favorite time of year, especially Autumn so I always am prepared. I'm especially excited cause the temperatures have been way too hot to do much of anything. I'm excited to get outside more.

Aevery

Winter is actually almost over where I live. I'm excited for the heat, I'm really looking forward to getting my chili garden up and running. We had an amazing harvest before I had to prune my plants for the winter and have no idea which ones survived or not, since the area I live gets winter temps that are kind of at the borderline where it could go either way.

sonoko

I need to get a warmer light. My current bulb is just plain white and makes everything look too much like a clinic. I want a nice orange bulb.

light

My summer was ordinary tbh. Our heating here is terrible so I hope we don't freeze for the coming winter, lol.

sonoko

I was going to ask @Lumeinshin when the "Summer is here!" text will change, but it raises a very good question - when does summer end and autumn begin?

To me, my brain says the beginning of September but I know that's just a hold over from summer holidays ending then. Weather here is unpredictable in September, it can be either August 2 or pre-October. The mornings here are feeling autumnal already, while the days are hot.

sanner

sonoko
i woke up this morning and i was chilly for the first time in months. i think fall is here, for me at least? Regardless, fall starting on september 1st works well because then we have 3 months for each Season! (fall being sept, oct, and nov)

Nah

I live in a tropical environment. This time of year the monsoon begins to withdraw, so the season of "stank summer" becomes summer. We don't have winter, instead we have maybe two weeks of a wet cold that resembles a late October in western Europe.

I grew up in a continental climate and autumn was by far my favorite season. The refreshing cool and crisp air, still nights, Halloween decorations, golden farm fields, brilliant leaves of the sugar maples.... it was peak cozy. I would actually get in incredibly good shape as every night I would go for a 10 kilometer run. I didn't run for the purpose of getting in shape but more for enjoying the weather and experiencing a tranquilly calm autumn night.

Winter is also a wonderful season (if there's snow) but autumn is the season that I have always loved and come to miss.

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