My favourite is probably warm but not crazy hot, slight breeze and just cloudy enough so that the sun isn't burning you to a crisp. Makes for a nice time to relax or work outside. Also means that the horses are happy and don't need to drink tons of water.
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Sounds like a nice Spring or Autumn day! Hot Summer weather can be tough on everyone, including animals. Do you ride horses?
Horses are a pass time for me so they are more free time partners. I may get around to riding again in the future. Though right now I am still very busy sorting out a lot of horse related things since I got them home this year so I didn't really get to do too much else yet.
Everyone seems to hate on snow because of driving hassles but hiking across moonlit snow is incredibly beautiful to me!
For some reason I really like windy days too! It makes everything sway around and seem alive. It can be windy in any season but it's really nice when it's warm enough that it doesn't make you uncomfortably cold.
Nice! Wind can be relaxing somewhat, as long as it's not too windy haha. What was your best hiking experience?
Too windy is a thing haha! One time in spring it was blowing 50-60mph sustained, gusting to 70. I live close enough to the great lakes and had the day off so I drove to a park by the water out of curiosity. It was intense enough that it was a challenge just to walk around sometimes. I had never seen waves that big in person before or since!
To answer your question the woods behind my parent's house goes to a reservoir lake. During one winter it was cold enough long enough that the ice was a foot thick. So me and some relatives made an expedition to hike through the woods, across the snow covered ice and all the way to a small island we had never set foot on!
That reminds me of this time we had a major storm and the rain seemed almost horizontal, I almost fell over when a big gust of wind hit me from behind, and I'm sure if I held up a piece of cloth over my head I would've started flying like Link from Zelda! π That sounds like a great experience! Did you do anything once you set foot on the little island?
Wow yeah I bet that was quite a rush!
We mostly explored the island. We thought about spending the night there but the stuff we would need to keep warm would be too heavy to lug all that way. But we did find something interesting!
Wedged in the fork of a tree there was a plastic pencil box. Inside there was a little bit of cash, some toy trinkets and other random things including an email address on a slip of paper. Finding it on that island of all places weirded us out! When we got back I sent an email to that mystery address. About a week passed and a person actually replied!
That was my introduction to geocaching! The owner took a small boat there years ago. They placed it but had second thoughts about registering it because he didn't have government permission and it was forgotten about
Soft rain with thin enough clouds that there's still light, and chilly but not cold.
If you want me to get really specific (because I got to experience recently): Sometime between Oct 15th and December 1, in the Willamette Valley in Oregon, roughly 5pm, light rain, 50 degrees, listening to Gone by Pearl Jam.
I live in a place with mild winters and barely any snow, so I like the cool, crisp air without the snow/ice. Around 12C-15C with a slight breeze and wearing a cozy hoodie is my favorite kind of weather.
Our summer/rainy season. Warm mornings building to hot early afternoon, then thunderstorms, rain to cool everything off, then warm evenings with crazy beautiful lightning, all different sorts, so you can have dinner and a show.
Plus I would pretty much always rather be too hot than too cold. Most people come here for our winters but I really love the rainy season.
6 to 22C, mostly dry.
I can understand your preferred situation if you live in a on-grid insulated home, and go outside a couple of hours a day.
A perfect English summer afternoon, about 24Β°C / 75Β°F. A blue sky with a little dapple of high white clouds and a very gentle breeze.
Ideally, sitting in a country garden with a generous G&T. Sounds of children playing far enough in the distance that it's a background noise, of bees lazily searching the flower beds, and for sheer perfection a propeller plane powered by a Merlin engine also droning somewhere far off.
A sunny day in spring