With the relatively mild winter morphing into an early spring on the East Coast, other regions of the United States have experienced harsher climates this winter season. As we turn toward the heat of summertime and leave the cold behind, YouGov asked which was more tolerable: hot summers or cold winters.
According to this recent YouGov poll, respondents were evenly split between finding hot summers or cold winters more tolerable. The greatest difference in opinion was among ideological and regional differences.
At 58%, self-identified liberals find really cold winters more tolerable than hot summers; moderates and conservatives, on the other hand, were slightly happier with the summers.
However, the strongest deviation among all responders was among regions. Westerners think that really cold winters are more tolerable (57%) – perhaps because of their relatively balmy winters - followed by those living in the South (51%). Sixty percent of Northeasterners, in contrast, seem to be more tolerant of really hot summers over winters; Midwesterners, who live through some of the most severe winter conditions, were evenly split between the two extremes.
But 12% of Midwesterners admitted to wishing the weather was different nearly all of the time. Those in the West seem happiest with their climate, a scant 5% wishing for different weather nearly all the time and 43% only very rarely wishing for different weather.
