What's your favorite season?
According to Gallup:
The June 6-8 Gallup Poll finds 36% of Americans naming spring as their favorite season of the year, while 27% prefer fall, 25% summer, and just 11% winter. Each time Gallup has asked the question -- in 1947, 1960, and this year -- spring is the season the public has been most likely to name as its favorite.
For me, in order of preference:
Fall 
Winter
Spring
Summer 
But I expect most people line up with the survey.
"this year" was 2005, BTW
http://www.gallup.com/poll/16939/most-popular-season-coming-end.aspx
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When I was a kid, summer meant no school and camping and sleeping in the back yard and swimming... as an adult, I've done a 180
Tho' I still run into people my age who insist they "love the heat!" 
That's a good question. 
We rarely went swimming. We either hung out at the city playground (asphalt!), played in our or other kids' yards, or explored the woods. It was the 1950s. Today, we would be called "free-range"!! 
Because
I'd rather sweat than shiver.
I'm up north where the ocean's temp is much cooler (at least, it used to be). And I'm not directly on the coast so that makes a difference. Still, I wouldn't live anywhere else!
I hope you get lots of rain later this year.
Fall Colors. College Football. Crisp days and cool nights. Halloween. Thanksgiving. College football.
Thanks for posting
in disliking summer! Here in Sacramento, it is unbearable to me, so I end up spending most of the time indoors. After a couple of cases of heat prostration, it's not an option at my age, 60. You are golden if you live on the coast. It rarely gets too hot. I grew up in SoCal, 10 miles from the beach, and the weather was perfect, still is.
Spring is my favorite season. I just like the freshness of the air, new beginnings, and promises of fresh veggies and fruits. Fall is raking leaves, and winter is rain and fog. No snow here, and that's fine and dandy with me!
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Was born there and brought up in Davis, so my memory is that the heat is pretty ferocious. 
It must be quite a difference being in Sacto when you were raised on the coast!
I once went to the beach to escape the heat. It was cloudy and foggy on the coast and even a little cool. I ended
up with quite a sunburn!
Stay cool, shanti
I let my interior apartment temp rise to 85 before kicking on the AC. Good for the planet, no sweat for me. Of course, not everyone can go around in shorts and sandals...
Long live MFM in our memory!
Snow country.
We have two seasons here in Texas (and pretty much every state on the Gulf Coast):
Summer
Not Summer
And I love Summer!!!
I lived in Canada for awhile and it snowed during January, I remember. It was literally breath-taking because the downy flakes fell so gently and so softly, seemingly from nowhere-- you can tell I haven't seen a lot of snow in my life. But then, there were three weeks of slush, which became dirtier and dirtier with each passing day. Give me the rain anytime!!
People sometimes think talking about the weather is shallow-- not me! I am very much influenced by what it's doing outside, as I think most of us are.
She's lucky to have you!
Does that make her a Libra or a Scorpio?
Cold AS HELL.... give me the FALL!!
Response to ailsagirl (Original post)
I'm in the Northeast and I'm happy with any season without snow. I savor the warm weather, though lately it becomes sweltering with no in between, but mainly I'm happy if I don't have to worry about being caught in a blizzard. If I lived in the South, I might feel otherwise. Welcome to DU!
