Sometimes someone inside would admire the beauty of the ice and snow from his or her window, but on the outside, you more frequently heard complaints about the inconvenience. But when spring comes, Bloomington unthaws. The campus gets beautiful really quickly, and people start to talk pleasantly to each other again. Campus is filled with the chatter of summer plans along with the chirping of birds. Once summer gets here, we complain the loudest.
People talk about how hot it is, as if they'd never been hot before.
I understand that news coverage of the weather is justified in the winter. We need to know where the pile-ups are located and which roads are clearer than others. In the spring, we need to know about the nearest tornado touchdowns and which towns are in danger of flooding, but in the summer, the news coverage is most loquacious. The inevitable first story is about children in the public schools, subjected to studying in unairconditioned buildings. Everybody knows that kids can't learn if they're hot.