*g* I'm not personally passing judgement on them - just saying that walking around St. Louis wearing a Mets or Cubs jacket/hat is likely to get you some snark, at least. Not terribly well loved teams around there.
And, no, no problem. Actually, my high school (which was middle/upper-middle class on the area maps) had so many marijuana fumes blowing around in summer school that some of the students IN summer school had to win their grades through contact highs. And yeah to the drinking too, though owing to there being nothing much to do, most of the evening gatherings were in parks. Lie on somebody's car hood, drink and smoke and generally bitch at the stars. Designer drugs I wasn't into, but I know they were around.
The main weather notes for St. Louis are:
Spring: Tornado season. Seriously, it's not at all unusual to average one tornado warning every few weeks in march and april. And where it's not tornado watch or tornado warning, it's Severe Thunderstorm alerts. The Midwest gets the biggest, loudest, most ferocious thunderstorms in the world, and they're used to it. (I used to sit out on my porch during some of them - quite ruined my taste for the average showerhead. Thunder and lightning and POUNDING rain, causing flash flooding in areas...) I've never met anyone quite like a midwesterner for the casual attitudes toward lightning strikes and tornados. I care not what the meteorologists say. In St. Louis, Spring is March and April.
Summer: HUUUUUUUMID. Those two rivers really make it humid, muggy, and mosquito-ridden. Also sometimes with the thunderstorms. Don't-Breathe-Days. (AKA Ozone Action Alerts.) Weatherwise, Summer is May-Sep.
Autumn: humid and cool, really. Fog happens a lot. Very thick, can't-see-more-than-fifteen-feet-ahead sort of fog. Sep-Nov.
Winter: I used to think it wasn't a proper winter unless the city pipes had frozen. Used to get plenty of unscheduled no-school days in december and january when they'd freeze and burst...really water management tends to govern the year all around. Dec-Feb, but sometimes winter doesn't really hit until January. February is almost always an icy snowy bitch, though.
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And, no, no problem. Actually, my high school (which was middle/upper-middle class on the area maps) had so many marijuana fumes blowing around in summer school that some of the students IN summer school had to win their grades through contact highs. And yeah to the drinking too, though owing to there being nothing much to do, most of the evening gatherings were in parks. Lie on somebody's car hood, drink and smoke and generally bitch at the stars. Designer drugs I wasn't into, but I know they were around.
The main weather notes for St. Louis are:
Spring: Tornado season. Seriously, it's not at all unusual to average one tornado warning every few weeks in march and april. And where it's not tornado watch or tornado warning, it's Severe Thunderstorm alerts. The Midwest gets the biggest, loudest, most ferocious thunderstorms in the world, and they're used to it. (I used to sit out on my porch during some of them - quite ruined my taste for the average showerhead. Thunder and lightning and POUNDING rain, causing flash flooding in areas...) I've never met anyone quite like a midwesterner for the casual attitudes toward lightning strikes and tornados. I care not what the meteorologists say. In St. Louis, Spring is March and April.
Summer: HUUUUUUUMID. Those two rivers really make it humid, muggy, and mosquito-ridden. Also sometimes with the thunderstorms. Don't-Breathe-Days. (AKA Ozone Action Alerts.) Weatherwise, Summer is May-Sep.
Autumn: humid and cool, really. Fog happens a lot. Very thick, can't-see-more-than-fifteen-feet-ahead sort of fog. Sep-Nov.
Winter: I used to think it wasn't a proper winter unless the city pipes had frozen. Used to get plenty of unscheduled no-school days in december and january when they'd freeze and burst...really water management tends to govern the year all around. Dec-Feb, but sometimes winter doesn't really hit until January. February is almost always an icy snowy bitch, though.