What I think is somewhat ironic is that when anyone "wishes" for a specific type of weather, they usually are unhappy about it when it comes. That could be due to the phenomena that too much of a good thing is bad. "I wish it would rain" lady probably wishes it would stop raining by day 3. I grew up on the prairies (that would be north of Montana and N. Dakota) and our winters were coooold, with deep, dry snow. The shovelling was never ending, you had to use your imagination as to where the roads stopped and the sidewalks started, four-lane roads become two, if you were lucky! Some became one way because the town's snow plows didn't get to side streets. Yeah, and I get the wind thing. But we dressed for the occasion. At least, the smart ones did. Teenagers (me too when I was one), would go with bare-faces and hands, running shoes instead of boots, no hats. You've seen 'em. Hell, we have them out here in Vancouver, where its mild, wearing shorts in refrigerator temperatures. Anyway, I complained every year that it was too much for me and I would move to the coast where winters are mostly rain. So I finally did when I was 26 and you know what happened? The snow we would sometimes get (like the past 2 days) is so wet and heavy that I started wishing for prairie snow so I could take my son out sledding "properly". And the rain? Oh yeah, the temperatures aren't nearly as cold but when you're soaked to the core, your body can't tell, it just knows its shivering and miserable and your fingers are still devoid of all feeling. Wishing it would stop by day 3 is commonplace, wishing it would stop by day 14 is also commonplace. I've spent more time indoors since living out here, than my whole childhood in prairie winters. At least back then, we had sunshine after a snowstorm and we could bundle up, go out and play when we weren't shovelling and getting into car accidents from black ice. Here, I had to start taking Vitamin D3 because of the lack of sunshine. So you see, there is always better weather somewhere else. I bet if I lived where it was warm all the time, I'd be saying I was too hot, or the humidity was too high and a nice light rain would be really nice. If that's what you mean by weather ironies, no, you are not the only one that gets it.