@ Angie - I get what you mean. Do you know when the next seasonal (spring for Northern hemisphere/fall for Southern Hemisphere) drops will be? I note Uniqlo is dropping IdeLF (Ines de La Fresange) tomorrow in the UK, but here in Canada it is scheduled for next week, March 17th. I’m not getting a sense from most other places I shop/browse -:and things like shorts are not available - other than what looks like last year’s left-overs.

Does anyone do Resort?

I think Jenni and Sal have given a good picture of New Zealand weather. I find February and early March a little tricky as it is still summer and I'm itching to wear cardigans so usually put it on in the cool of the morning and am boiling by midday. I"m keen to wear my new ankle boots now but it seems too hot still.
Same with Spring...it is supposed to be spring but it isn't until the end of the October that I feel comfortable in spring /summer dresses. I run cold so in winter I usually wear my coat all day and try to make things interesting by changing the scarves. I think this year I will work on layering with tights and sweaters so I can take my coat off.

Stag, yes! Your explanation is dead right. Thank you.

Carla, yes, you get it! My guess is that the next drop for Spring is now and over the next few weeks. High summer after Easter and again in June.

Where I live, winter lasts six months of the year. It starts in November and ends in April. It can snow in May.

The seasons look something like this:

Winter - November to April
Spring - May, if we are lucky
Summer - June, July and August complete with mosquitos and other insects
Fall - September and October

I don't know when I will pack my winter clothes away. Maybe June.

I think for some of you, my temps are such that I live in an eternal summer. My seasons are similar to Brooklyn, just a bit hotter and no humidity - it is a very dry heat:

• My summers are very dry and hot and last from December to the end of March - temps with a min of 20C up to 40+C (highest max was 46C this summer)
• April and May are the best months - beautiful weather with cool evenings and max temps in the low to high 20C's, occasionally getting hotter and some scattered showers.
• June, July and August are wet and the temps cool. I say it is 'freezing' and will be wearing layers of clothing at temps of 12 - 18C! Our minimum can occasionally drop to 2C, but we never get snow.
• Sept, Oct and November is classic spring weather, some warm and some cool days. In November the temps gradually get into the low 30C's and we are into summer weather again!

The thing that makes my summers bearable (other than air-con) is that most evenings we get a cool wind coming off the Indian Ocean to drop temperatures despite a very hot and sunny day. Alas with all the sunshine, we are the skin cancer capital of the world.

Now it is clearly spring here. I can tell because I feel sick. The pollen does that to me. Meds help some, but not enough. Would be nice if fashion could fix that, lol.

I can't really divide things up by season. The past few weeks are a good example:

Feb 14-15: Sunny and warm, 70s
Feb 18: 50s (i.e. "normal")
Feb 21: Sunny and almost hot, 85
Feb 23-25: 20s-30s, ice storm
Mar 1-6: 70s and 80s, mostly sunny
This week: 40s and 50s, some rain
Next week: 70s, no rain

I've been spending alternate weekends working on the garden, mostly doing dirt work. When it's cold, I stay in and sew. This was a nice weekend so I spent a lot of it outside, but the cold front slid in yesterday afternoon. Quite a chilly morning. It would be very stressful to try to guess when to get out summer clothes/put away winter clothes, so I don't try for the most part.