Caitlin Suliguin
Instructor Perales
English 79 MWF 10:30am
28 September 2014
Winter vs. Summer
Winter and summer have their own seasonal weather, activities, and attire. The main factor is temperature, the weather transition affects what activities people can do and what attire we have to wear in order to be comfortable. We can’t do all activities such as snowboarding or jet skiing all 365 days of the year, doing this in the wrong season would be uncomfortable and possibly unsafe. This is why our clothing must coordinate with the weather, if we wear the wrong clothing, our bodies can overheat or freeze in the wrong clothing. Both seasons have its own individual characteristics that change our environment, which then causes our choice of activity, attire, and our driving route to our destination to change in serveral ways.
California doesn’t have incredibly high or low forecasts, but it can be hard to deal with in ways that affect our routes we take and timing to our destination. Why? The weather. On winter mornings, the gloomy, colder weather comes in causing drivers to spend time waiting for their windshield wipers and defrost system to melt the frozen ice. Specifically, the rainy, foggy weather can cause decreased vision making it difficult to drive. When it rains, people tend to drive even slower due to the slippery roads which then can pile up to a lot of traffic. The weather becomes a hassle to deal with as we try to drive safely and arrive quickly to our destination. Yet in the summer, people don’t have to worry about any of these obstacles, to battle the summer heat we just turn on the AC or roll our windows down. In fact, you can bike and walk to places instead of driving in the summer, but not in the cold months. Winter weather keeps most people warmed up in their homes avoiding dangerous roads as summer pulls everyone outside to be active.
The weather greatly affects what activities we can do. Winter weather is harder to tolerate than summer weather because the weather becomes extremely windy unlike the calm summer weather. This is why we can’t do the same activities we do in both seasons 365 days of the year. Moreover, when it is the season of snow, we can snowboard, ski over slopes, make snowmen, have snowball fights, and skate in ice rinks. Although in the summer time, we spend most of our time being outside enjoying the warm weather. We find ourselves traveling to places with a beach or river so we can swim, surf, camp out, or water ski. As we have a more comfortable environment in the summer, many people would choose to go camping during the warmer days. Camping outside gives the real camping experience rather than sleeping in a cabin in the winter. When it’s warm and you’re out camping, more sports are available to play such as: football, swimming, soccer, and baseball. Since the water isn’t frozen yet, we can get in our boats, water ski, relax in inflatables, go river rafting, or go hiking. Yet in the winter the water and air can get too cold that we can only play hockey and skate in ice rinks, which are not normally at camping sites. Cold weather leaves very little activities to do during a winter cabin camping trip. The weather can most definitely stop people from doing certain activities outside. At all times, it’s best to make sure the things we do are suitable to the temperature.
In addition to the weather changing, we have to wear the appropriate attire to suit the temperature and the activities we choose to do. The winter is too cold to be wearing a shirt the entire day, we have to cover up and keep ourselves warm. In fact, snowboarding means you should be wearing snowboard jackets, pants, gloves, and mittens. The snow is wet so you’d want to wear thick articles of clothing, including your socks, beanies, and mittens. Another winter activity is ice-skating, which can be outside near the snow, or in an indoor ice rink. Alternatively, thick snowboarding jackets would be too bulky for skating movements, so we’d want to be wearing a long sleeve sweater and pants. Later, when summer comes we have to adapt to a hotter environment. This is when the best type of clothing to wear in the heat is loose, light colored clothing. Summer is a whole different story. For example a beach day for girls would be a swimsuit under a cropped top and shorts to stay cool. On the other hand, a day at Disneyland in the summer would be comfortable clothes like a shirt and shorts. Our attire has to match the activity or place we go to otherwise we’ll be uncomfortable in the wrong clothing.
In conclusion, each season has its own different characteristics such as the weather, activities, and attire. The two different seasons vary from great warm weather to numbing cold weather as well as more activities verses very few activities. Summer and winter are known to be complete opposites. Winter is well known for its gloomy, cold weather where the holidays come and ski resorts open. Then there’s summer, when you automatically think of sunny skies, a beach and playing in the water. Their big differences must be why each person has their own personal favorite season.
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