In theory it's supposed to hit 14° here on Friday (!), but I'd likewise be shocked if we don't get more cold and snow. Ugh. That usually tapers off as April begins, but it's usually May before I start to feel like it might really be spring.
Summer and fall are both generally good here! The best part about our summer compared to Toronto summer (insofar as I can generalize, given climate change) is that it rarely gets as hot as Toronto routinely does.
As for autumn, it's usually more drawn out here than there, I think? We usually get really good foliage colors and it starts feeling like fall in September and keeps it up for several weeks. (My memory from my two years living in Toronto is that there it felt much more like summer heat just kept going and then WHAM, over just a couple of weeks it started feeling like impending winter.) Cape Breton in particular is world-famous for its fall display, although it takes a few days to get up there from down in Halifax, drive properly around the Cabot Trail to take it in, and come back.
(I learned the hard way not to promise beautiful Octobers the year my Ginny came to visit in October and it was chilly and gray for most of the month, followed by an uncharacteristically warm and bright November.)
What amused me when moving to Toronto and then back here is that folks here were so "But aren't Toronto winters HORRIBLE???" and people there had the exact same impression about winters here. My answer is that winter just plain sucks (IMO), but Halifax and Toronto's winters, while equally unpleasant, are very different. (Toronto is a drier cold and tends to stay cold most of the time once it starts, and the snow piles up and quickly turns gray and black with nastiness; Nova Scotia's damp cold rarely hits temperatures as low as Toronto's, but instead it fluctuates near freezing over and over and over, so we get cold rain that freezes to the ground and then gets snowed on, and then it warms enough to thaw, and the freeze-thaw cycle wrecks the roads and leaves surfaces covered with layers of ice under frigid slush.)
So really what I want, personally, is to spend spring and part of summer in Toronto, the rest of summer and autumn here, and winter in Hawai'i.
And having said all that, yes, do come out east! ^_^
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Date: 2021-03-11 03:34 am (UTC)Summer and fall are both generally good here! The best part about our summer compared to Toronto summer (insofar as I can generalize, given climate change) is that it rarely gets as hot as Toronto routinely does.
As for autumn, it's usually more drawn out here than there, I think? We usually get really good foliage colors and it starts feeling like fall in September and keeps it up for several weeks. (My memory from my two years living in Toronto is that there it felt much more like summer heat just kept going and then WHAM, over just a couple of weeks it started feeling like impending winter.) Cape Breton in particular is world-famous for its fall display, although it takes a few days to get up there from down in Halifax, drive properly around the Cabot Trail to take it in, and come back.
(I learned the hard way not to promise beautiful Octobers the year my Ginny came to visit in October and it was chilly and gray for most of the month, followed by an uncharacteristically warm and bright November.)
What amused me when moving to Toronto and then back here is that folks here were so "But aren't Toronto winters HORRIBLE???" and people there had the exact same impression about winters here. My answer is that winter just plain sucks (IMO), but Halifax and Toronto's winters, while equally unpleasant, are very different. (Toronto is a drier cold and tends to stay cold most of the time once it starts, and the snow piles up and quickly turns gray and black with nastiness; Nova Scotia's damp cold rarely hits temperatures as low as Toronto's, but instead it fluctuates near freezing over and over and over, so we get cold rain that freezes to the ground and then gets snowed on, and then it warms enough to thaw, and the freeze-thaw cycle wrecks the roads and leaves surfaces covered with layers of ice under frigid slush.)
So really what I want, personally, is to spend spring and part of summer in Toronto, the rest of summer and autumn here, and winter in Hawai'i.
And having said all that, yes, do come out east! ^_^