Dumb question regarding seasons

[musiclover]

So I live in New England and for sure we have 4 seasons.
So we get beautiful foliage in the fall, snowy winters, tulips in the spring etc..  It's easy to teach Adam about seasons since each season has such extreme differences.

For those of you who live in areas that I would think would not have true seasons (Texas, Southern California) how do you distinguish for your children other than just the months of the year?

Sorry if this is dumb, I am just looking forward to apple picking and pumpkin picking soon as those are popular fall activities here and I wonder if other areas have things like this for each season?

[monkeybabe]

We have the season where it rains and the season where it usually doesn't rain, but spring gets the pretty flowers and new growth and the leaves fall off the trees in the fall, so there's that?

[puppylove64]

Aug 27, 2013 10:31:14 GMT -5 @tambcat said:

lol. People in warm climates pretend. There are still pumpkins and Santa and shit.

Hah! Yeah we pretend! We have hot hot summers. spring is nice in the morning, then hot. We have some nice flowers in the spring. Fall the leaves change, cool in the morning and hot during the day. Winter is chilly, rarely snows, occasional ice on windshield, but usually nothing colder than a sweatshirt! I live in Ga btw

[muppetinma]

Aug 27, 2013 10:31:14 GMT -5 @tambcat said:

lol. People in warm climates pretend. There are still pumpkins and Santa and shit.

This.  Fall and spring are when we can play outside.  Winter is when people buy bread, milk, and batteries if the forecast shows anything in the 30s.  Summer is when we try to avoid heat stroke.

[irishsara]

Aug 27, 2013 11:03:12 GMT -5 muppetinma said:

Aug 27, 2013 10:31:14 GMT -5 @tambcat said:

lol. People in warm climates pretend. There are still pumpkins and Santa and shit.

This.  Fall and spring are when we can play outside.  Winter is when people buy bread, milk, and batteries if the forecast shows anything in the 30s.  Summer is when we try to avoid heat stroke.

Gotta love the "French toast-ers"!  Oh, looks like flurries?  Quick!  We need break, milk, and eggs!  oh, and toilet paper!

[carawestt]

Our seasons are when it's hot, hottest and finally not hot. We still have pumpkins and Christmas stuff. We want to move before the kids start school though, we want them to grow up with better weather.

[musiclover]

This is very interesting, everyone has their own concept of seasons I guess

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Aug 27, 2013 11:21:15 GMT -5 jamaicam said:

We have seasons - we have mango season, citrus season, ackee season etc! We also have hurricane season.

Basically:
Winter = Christmas, and a cooler breeze in the evenings;
Spring = Mango season, getting hotter
Summer = crazy hot, rains in the afternoons
Autumn/Fall = Late hurricane season, scary storms

I think going by fruit is a really good way to do it!

And delicious.

[katie]

Huh, never thought about it. But I know at DC they decorate with leaves for fall, snowflakes for winter and teach about the seasons there too. And like tambcat mentioned, we still have pumpkins and santa

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Aug 27, 2013 13:56:13 GMT -5 katie said:

...I know at DC they decorate with leaves for fall, snowflakes for winter and teach about the seasons there too. And like tambcat mentioned, we still have pumpkins and santa

This will my our first real fall, since we're southern Californians recently transplanted to northern Virginia. So I'm 32 and never seen real fall foliage (and DH is 35).

We still decorated with leaves for fall & snowflakes for winter, but the one time it snowed in my hometown it made Dateline because it was such a freak event. In general, it's about 10-20 degrees cooler in winter, rains a little, and you have the holidays. We still do all of the traditional holiday activities and decorations, but I learned last year that buying a traditional Halloween costume doesn't work in SoCal because it's still warm in October and a full bodied costume is a bit too much! We just had to use more imagination.

[vthokie]

I love this question! I grew up outside of Philly, so...seasons. When I was in Alabama....no seasons. My stipulations for moving somewhere was actually "I want 4 REAL season!!" We live close enough to the mountains that we have seasons.

Similarly, when we moved to Charlotte, we moved to the land of red clay. What color do kids color dirt when you live in a red clay area?? NVM. DH says you color it the red clay color...duh. Sorry, I grew up and colored dirt brown. Weird. (sorry for the exhausted rant)

[laurack]

[monkeybabe]

Aug 27, 2013 20:40:53 GMT -5 laurack said:

I feel like this illustrates Portland pretty well, too. We have about two months where you're pretty sure it won't rain and then you go camping in that time frame and it does, lol.

[fusion]

Aug 27, 2013 20:40:53 GMT -5 laurack said:

ha! I lived in Scotland for a year and the rain was a welcome respite from the heat and drought of Texas.

And for seasons for us. Summer is from mid-April to mid-October and involves a lot of indoor activities. Fall and winter are lumped together and are distinguished by celebrating holidays. We have mostly live oaks here, so they don't dump their leaves until the spring, and they don't change colors. The way the weather works here during that time is we get the tail of random cold fronts and it will cool down to 40/50 and then heat up to the 70s again. Snow happens every couple of years. So shorts in December isn't a rare thing. Spring is a lovely two week period where everything is blooming.

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Aug 27, 2013 11:50:23 GMT -5 musiclover said:

This is very interesting, everyone has their own concept of seasons I guess

Yeah, and let me tell you I prefer the "seasons" we have here, over freezing my ass off 8 months of the year in Chicago, though I loved the city. 

We have:
hot as hell, very dry (90+)
cold and rainy (50s)

Spring and Autumn are beautiful.

That said, I do miss the Chicago fall

[teamhayes]

\didn't read the responses but great question

I hate living in New England but I guess it is cool we have real seasons for whATI waS raised as knowing seasons a as. I am sure people outside of new England feel like thjey have seasons too