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Living With The Weather In New England

Why our weather is more than just source material for memes.

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Living With The Weather In New England
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Growing up in New England always has its ups and downs. For one thing, it is probably the prettiest place to live, in my opinion. No matter where you go during fall, you are bound to see many different varieties of trees with multicolored leaves where ever you go. In the summer, we have plenty of beaches to go around. Sure the water may not be as blue as it is in other states but they are still great places to go. Spring time means most of the states are painted a variation of pink because of the trees and flowers blooming. Of course, the snow in the winter can be annoying but taking a walk after it has freshly snowed is a very beautiful thing. The only real problem with living in New England though is when all of those seasons decide to make appearance in the same week.

With it being March now, random season changes are something that should be expected but are still completely baffling at times. For instance, when I am sitting at a baseball game with only a sweatshirt needed to keep me warm and I get an email saying that all resident students should move their cars for the weekend because we are expecting snow, I still read it over and over again in disbelief. How can it actually be possible that on a Friday there is beautiful spring weather but you know that by Monday morning there could be at least six inches of snow on the ground?

Naturally though, by the time the supposed snowstorm hits, there could be less than one inch on the ground but that does not mean everyone and their mothers are not prepared for the worst. Especially after the winter of 2015, where we were just passing the one hundred inches mark in the beginning of March, no one will ever be underprepared for any weather situation again. Living in New England, there is no such thing as storing your shovel away after winter. It stays out all year round. It may seem that it is out of laziness that people do not put it away but we are actually always worried it is going to snow.

There is also no such thing as swapping out for your summer clothes and your winter clothes. All of your clothes live together year round, stuffed together to make sure you have space for it all. Your jeans and your shorts are interchangeable through out the year so there really is not any reason for them to be put in separate places. This goes especially for the New Englanders who are almost guaranteed to wear shorts if the weather is above fifty degrees.

Living in New England, I believe we have adapted well to weather. We are able to withstand the cold and the snow while also knowing how to perfectly take advantage of a day that is warm and sunny. Of course there is also my favorite advantage of having grown up in New England, you can drink iced coffee all year no matter what the temperature. So sure, the rest of the country may make fun of us because of the insane weather patterns we face but really they are probably just jealous of what we can survive when they know something normal for us could signal the end of the world to them.

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