Here is Maryland, mid Atlantic USA. Where you walk out 6:30am in July, and get hit in the face by stinky wet wool blanket, and it only gets worse from there. I'll take working in dark drizzle over getting blasted with sun every single time; particularly with treework. Hot weather here is climb up out of the shade(which is virtually useless due to the still air and humidity), sweat pouring down your helmet, and on your glasses(if you wear them), then having your face shield light up like a Christmas tree when the sun hits it at the wrong angle(most of the angles are wrong).
Winter here is pretty good for work, especially in these later years. It's more or less a super extended fall, with maybe a single week or two of winter, often split up into individual days. That's fine for work, but you miss the beauty and pain of winter that makes spring a welcomed sight instead of an overbearing dread of the awful that's about to work you over for the next few months. I used to watch the weather, hoping for a break from subfreezing temps, and I've had frostnip twice decades ago when it still got cold here. I'd have to try to get it around here now.
Don't get me wrong, I don't exactly love working in rain, but if I *must* be out there, I'll take cool rain to Maryland heat. Since I'm doing all this for the lulz, I can cherrypick when I decide to go out. That was one of the factors that lead me not to mill yesterday. Temps were ok; ~52°, but the sun was out in full force, and since my neighbor cut down all their trees, the skeletons left on my property weren't enough to dampen it, and it was hot as hell. I was sweating with my helmet on just cutting up small branches.
This is what I have to look forward to for the next two days. That’s why my kit looks dirty... 
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