“It’s hot in Florida, but it is hot in NJ in August too, and can be at the Cape.”
Definitely. All places can get hot. I think what catches people off guard about the Florida heat (aside from the humidity) is that it doesn’t really cool off at night. It’s not like other areas where it gets boiling hot right in the middle of the day but the mornings and evenings are nice. In most of Florida, by the time it’s 8 am and until after the sun sets, it’s boiling hot. When I’m running long distances in the summer, I tend to run in the dark (not evening, not even early morning, I mean dark dark) because the time right before the sun comes up is the coolest time and may be the only time during the day when it’s below 80.
We once went to Florida in June. At the time we were living in Ohio. But first we visited my parents in Tennessee where it was in the 90’s. It was hot, I mean how much hotter could it be in Florida in June?
It was like the gates of Hades! I never knew that it could be that hot! It was so much more humid and hot than Tennessee. We had also been in South Carolina in the summer.
Now we live in Northern Michigan and won’t leave from June to September lol! But here I am sitting in jeans and a sweatshirt. Warm days, cool nights, no humidity to speak of.
But sometimes you have to vacation when you have the time off.
I guess it is what One gets adjusted to. I was at the beach for an hour yesterday, but the ocean was still too chilly for me. Before dinner, we got half in my Non-heated pool, still chilly. However, my son’s g/f was here weeks ago, and she was swimming laps. My conclusion? I need the ocean and pool to be July/August warm. I suppose Northerners couldn’t tolerate the heat.
Cold bothers me more than heat. When I moved from Chicago to Dallas in 1978 I thought I was in heaven. Never wore my winter coat. Over the years, that changed some, especially when I had a heat issue during a run. By the time we left Dallas in 2006, we were making retirement plans for somewhere with much less heat.
Just this afternoon, I was in Subway and the young clerk told me, “I’m moving south as soon as I get out of high school. It’s too cold here.” I told her to think about where she would go, because she has no idea what real HEAT is! A heat wave up here is defined as three days in a row at 90 degrees or above, and a lot of summers we don’t have a single one. And it’s almost always cool enough at night to sleep without difficulty. We have a window AC unit, but we hardly ever use it.
In Tennessee we count days over 90 as bad summer heat. In Dallas it was days over 100. But we don’t have much snow at all and don’t go below freezing for more than a few days at a time, usually.
When my son stayed in Austin one summer, they had 40 days in a row of temps 100 degrees or above! That had never happened before. I think he was glad to move back to Maine.
“I was at the beach for an hour yesterday, but the ocean was still too chilly for me.”
You must be north of me. The water temp here is already above 80. That’s part of why the beach is so miserable here in August - the air temp is in the mid to upper 90s and the water doesn’t cool you down because it’s in the upper 80s. Again, I spend time in it year round, but I’m used to it.
My son is about to go off to college in Chicago. He thinks he knows what he’s in for, but he doesn’t. Prior to his college acceptance he didn’t even own a heavy coat, boots or gloves. He was accepted ED this last December so for Christmas I got him wool socks, thermal long undies, gloves, boots and some other cold weather gear. He acted puzzled and a little disgusted at how heavy the stuff was. I just smiled and told him to hold on to that stuff and let me know next Christmas if he liked it.
I grew up in California but have been in Texas for over 10 years. I totally agree that Texas is HOT but Florida in summer is hotter than Hades. As has been stated, it’s not just the heat but the humidity. It is suffocating.
“milee, the lesson may be learned in Jan and Feb, Not the first two weeks of Dec.”
Oh, I don’t think it will take anywhere near that long. It was in the upper 80s today and he was wearing a fairly heavy weight long sleeved shirt. The kid has zero body fat and is used to tropical weather. He’s starting school in Chicago in late September. I’m predicting he’ll be freezing his butt off by late October. By Thanksgiving break, he’ll have lost all sense of shame and be living in multiple layers of those thermal undies and wool socks.