What is the worst month of the year? I vote February.

The sauna known as May-August.

Ezekiel bread wrote:

The sauna known as May-August.

Here is South Carolina it's the sauna known at May-October.

I love February - I have run some of my fastest times then because of training in the cooler weather of December and January.

Here in the south the worst month is September. Back to school, and considered autumn but it's still hot as hell.

Def March...like February, but worse. At least in February, depending on where you live, you can still enjoy winter activities. March things start melting and it's cold and wet. You may get one warm day, but it just gets your hopes up to be let back down.

H. E. Pennypacker wrote:

It's cold, dark, and depressing. The holidays are a distant memory. The hopes of the new year are dashed. The spring is still a long way off.

You just described January.

August. Impossible to get anything done at work because so many people around the world go on vacation. Hot, no sports, sucks to run in the heat and humidity.

Of course, this is a little different in places that start school in August.

If not for the holidays, you'd say it's December, when the days are ridiculously short and, in most places, the snow is messy slush. And since some of us actually dread the holidays, it's definitely Decemeber.

April is the cruelest month

For everything there is a season, and

a time for every matter under heaven:

a time to be born, and a time to die;

a time to plant, and a time to pluck up

what is planted;

a time to kill, and a time to heal;

a time to break down, and a time to

build up;

a time to weep, and a time to laugh;

a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

a time to throw away stones, and a

time to gather stones together;

a time to embrace, and a time to

refrain from embracing;

a time to seek, and a time to lose;

a time to keep, and a time to

throw away;

a time to tear, and a time to sew;

a time to keep silence, and a time to

speak;

a time to love, and a time to hate;

a time for war, and a time for peace.”

I live on the gulf coast. February is delightful. September is pure punishment. We have four summers here. The first is from about the middle of April through May. This is a very nice summer. Temps will be in the mid to upper 80s most of the time. Summer 2 is from June to mid July. This is when you stop watching the weather because it will be in the 90s every day and the upper 70s and humid in the morning. Summer 3 is the end of July through August. This is pure pain. Mid to upper 90s every day. Dew points in the morning get to be punishing. The water at the pool is too warm to feel refreshing anymore. But we are strong and make it through until we are broken by Summer 4. Summer 4 is September through mid October. Occasionally we get an early cool front. But more often than not, we are just stuck with 90s all the way through September and do not see the first real cold front until mid October. And September is the peak of the hurricane season.

Eff you. February is my birthday month. It rocks.

You know what sucks? Every OTHER month.

theJeff wrote:

Eff you. February is my birthday month. It rocks.

You know what sucks? Every OTHER month.

That was mean.

Part of my dislike of February is that by then, I'm flat out sick of the cold weather. It's been 3 months of having to dress like an eskimo for every run, and I long for shorts weather. If it was the first month of winter it wouldn't be as bad, but by then I'm just beaten down by the constant cold.

H. E. Pennypacker wrote:

theJeff wrote:

Eff you. February is my birthday month. It rocks.

You know what sucks? Every OTHER month.

That was mean.

Part of my dislike of February is that by then, I'm flat out sick of the cold weather. It's been 3 months of having to dress like an eskimo for every run, and I long for shorts weather. If it was the first month of winter it wouldn't be as bad, but by then I'm just beaten down by the constant cold.

I know. I hope you know I was being playful :-)

Down here (Deep South), where we wear shorts on Christmas Day, February is one of the few months we can play outside, lol

I like sunlight. February is not as bad as January because the days are already getting longer. January sucks.

People who find August too hot should just go up to Maine or the UP of Michigan or Baffin Island.

more like october. wind, rain, holidays still too far away to look ahead to.

It's pretty much a toss-up between February and March for me, but February gets the nod due to Valentine's Day, which is the worst holiday. St. Patrick's day is an awful holiday as well, but much easier to avoid celebrating.

Louse Smarch weather...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTJ6GPGMozo

Lousy...

It totally depends on where you live. I used to live in upstate New York, and there I'd say March because it's still winter, still snowing, and you are just totally sick of winter. In my current California location I'd say January--dark, cold, often wet, and no holidays after the first. If I were unfortunate enough to live in Florida I suppose I'd choose one of the sauna-like summer months.

November is tied with February here in Michigan. Very depressing, dark, wet, and cold. Fall colors are gone. Thanksgiving is also a joke of a holiday. November is the beginning of the end. At least you can see the light in February and the days are getting longer.