kraftiekortie wrote:
In most areas above the Tropic of Cancer below the Tropic of Capricorn, there is a discernible difference between "winter" and "summer" weather, at least.
In the Tropics, of course, "winter weather" is almost always rare or nonexistent.
In common parlance, "winter weather" means cold, snow, ice, temperatures below about plus 5 Celsius, especially when it's windy. It is affects a person's state of mind because the sun rises late, and sets early, yielding less daylight during the astronomical "winter months." (that would be December to March in the Northern Hemisphere; June to September in the Southern Hemisphere).
Of course, "winter weather" could occur outside of astronomical "winter."
Indeed. To be honest, I'm not sure why this annoys me so much. Maybe it has to do with the illogicality - I tend to get annoyed by faulty logic. But though "we haven't had a winter this year" is quite illogical (there's a winter every year!), "it doesn't feel like winter" is less so. Maybe it's just that I started out being annoyed by the former, but it broadened so that any similar comment annoyed me. That's happened to me with other things before.