Why do people hate February so much? I've noticed that o nce January is over, the posts of winter's splendor and magic are lost to the archives. In their place I'm seeing memes and posts that wail complaints and lament Grinchy winter thoughts. It seems we're over it. I Googled, "Why does everyone hate February so much?" and the first link had me coughing with laughter. Here's an excerpt of this February rant : February, is a loathsome month of wall-to-wall clouds, damp, cold air, snow, rain, sleet, rain and ice. It's a month that strings together twenty-nine amaranthine days of churlish, bone-chilling, gnarly weather. Spring seems is so near you can almost imagine it - yet it is so far away. Then, when we get through all sixty-two days of February, we'll get bashed in the mouth by a windy, cold, rainy, morose March. Bashed in the mouth by the weather. I certainly know that feeling and man, that made my morning. But probably only because ...