[Shiunbird]

The main annoyance with winter is when it keeps flipping between bellow freezing and above freezing and you end up in a muddy/icy mess all around you.

I was born in a tropical country, so what I appreciate the most after these 15+ years in Europe is that the seasons are actually different, instead of ((dry OR wet) AND hot).

We are having a nice lovely fresh chilly May here, the way I like it.
Summers are better hot.
Winters are better cold.
The rest should be temperate.

Warm muddy winters, wet summers and undefined spring and autumns are the worst.
When I was living Moscow, I hated the -20C on Monday, +5 on Wednesday, then -10 on Saturday bullshit of having no sea nearby to smoothen the curve.