I’m in the southeast. I’m loving the continued warm weather. Currently relaxing on my porch with the dog. It can keep up for months as far as I’m concerned. But it’s definitely distinguishable from summer because there’s no unbearable humidity that keeps us both inside most of the actual summer.
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I moved from Illinois to San Diego to always have unseasonably warm weather 
. I’ll take a 40 degree temperature swing during the year over a 140 degree swing. If I really wanted to have a crisp fall day we could drive up to Julian, I guess.
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Same here in Virginia. Very dry and 70s day 40s at night. I can wait until Thanksgiving for the cold. No AC at all. A little warmup in the AM. Still tanning on the patio.
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It finally rained here in the PNW! I got tired of watering my newly planted rhododendrons and the tomato garden! We are back to 50-55 degree gloom and drizzle. I just checked our solar app: we are net producers of electricity this October! Which was not the case in previous years.
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Normally, I would agree with you. But we had a pretty rainy and relatively cool summer, so this weather feels like a post-season gift.
I just left the gorgeous fall foliage and cool, crisp autumn air of Maine way too soon to return to the mild summer that is an AZ winter; between these two places, we average about 75 degrees year round. Fall is my favorite time of year, and I would stay in Maine until the snow falls (I miss that, too), but DH is not of the same mind so here we are back in the land of palm trees and cactus. It’s cool and rainy today.
I remember the Indian summers of Michigan growing up and would take a warm fall over none at all.
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As I posted elsewhere, beautiful here in NYC too. But no significant rain since 10/16 and none expected until 11/5.
It will drop 10 degrees to mid-50s tomorrow for Halloween and the same for Sunday, the day of the NYC marathon.
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I’m glad it will be cooler for the runners.
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For those interested in the most recent news on the impact of climate change on the U.S., MIT released this information today:
Alaska, Utah, New Mexico, Colorado and Nevada have experienced the greatest warming trends.
In general across the U.S., warming has been most pronounced during the summer and fall.
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It must be me…but I like the daytime highs in the 60’s which is what we are having now. As soon as the sun sets, the temps drop. I’ve gotten all of my fleece jackets out, and my light weight sweater tops.
I’m with others…with the cost of heating oil, it can stay warmer and warm up the house during the day. That works!
There have been Thanksgiving days when we had appetizers outdoors…and this is New England.
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I’m with CTmom. Earlier this month I paid $850 for heating oil . The warmer than normal weather is welcome here!
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I’d bet the upper Midwest in not too unhappy with milder winters. I was there in the frigid 70s. it was not fun.
Below is link to an interactive map showing expected climate change by 2080. Click on a city, and the map shows what other city the 2080 climate is expected to most resemble. 2080 is not far away, some of our kids will be alive then. What we are experiencing now is on the path to these expected outcomes.
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I like a crisp fall as well but don’t mind the slightly warmer than usual weather we’ve been having here in MA. We still have a few cool days but have gotten into the mid 60s/low 70s more than you’d expect for late October. In recent years I’ve noticed that fall is much warmer than it was when I was a kid and winters (with some exceptions like last year) aren’t nearly as cold or snowy. Strangely, we didn’t have a really hot summer this year - it wasn’t rainy (in fact we’re in a drought) but the temps were more 70s than 80s or 90s.
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This was the hottest weather in southeast Florida that I’ve experienced. I used to go to the beach every other week, but with all the seaweed one cannot go into the water this morning was the first time I could go out at 7:30 and work in my yard. The humidity is way worse than the heat.
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It’s not that different for me. I’m in NC. I did a bunch of cities and it showed some similar to cities in east TX or Louisiana. When I have been there it has not felt that different from NC to me. In the mountains of NC it showed similar temps to other areas in the mountains. I disagree with the vegetation characteristics because so much of that is dependent on the soil.
Doesn’t mean I don’t believe in climate change. I just think I’m in a good spot. Don’t all y’all move to NC, though. We got a lot of refugees from California and New York already.
I live in the Triangle area of NC which is expected to have a climate like Houston in 2080. That is a very different climate IMO. Much hotter and more humid summers in Houston (right now), and basically some seasonality will be lost…average Jan high in triangle area is 51 degrees, average Jan high in Houston 64. That’s a significant difference IMO again.
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Ehhh I guess it depends on what you’re used to, but aside from more hurricanes (as if NC doesn’t have enough) I don’t find the Houston climate to be vastly different than the Triangle. More warm days, but I am a native NC-er and grew up in SE NC. I remember warm Christmases in the 70sF so you could go ride your new bike in jeans and a t-shirt. Humid is humid is humid. Plenty humid in a NC summer. I went to summer camp in SE NC where there was no air conditioning and it was 107º. Gonna be a tough adjustment for all the northerners who moved here and try to say it’s the “mid-Atlantic” and think it’s not really the South, though.
Here is Houston’s average weather stats for July 2026 from timeanddate.com:
High & Low Weather Summary for July 2026
| Temperature | Humidity | Pressure | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High | 102 °F (Jul 22, 4:53 pm) | 97% (Jul 14, 7:53 am) | 30.15 "Hg (Jul 14, 7:53 am) |
| Low | 73 °F (Jul 14, 7:53 am) | 37% (Jul 5, 4:53 pm) | 29.76 "Hg (Jul 22, 5:53 pm) |
| Average | 85 °F | 75% | 30.01 "Hg |
vs Raleigh:
High & Low Weather Summary for July 2026
| Temperature | Humidity | Pressure | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High | 101 °F (Jul 3, 4:51 pm) | 100% (Jul 7, 7:51 pm) | 30.18 "Hg (Jul 7, 7:51 pm) |
| Low | 64 °F (Jul 31, 5:51 am) | 28% (Jul 4, 5:51 pm) | 29.61 "Hg (Jul 28, 6:51 pm) |
| Average | 80 °F | 74% | 29.97 "Hg |
An average high of 64 in January sounds great to me, but I’m someone who love-love-loves summer here in NC and hates winter. I might not hate winter quite as much if it were 64.
I think climate change will affect other parts of the country and the world much worse than North Carolina will.
The thing that I thought was not good about that website was where they listed the different kinds of vegetation with the implication being that the hotter temps will mean different vegetation in 2080. For Houston it has " Vegetation type: Temperate Conifer Forests & Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas and Shrublands" and for Raleigh “Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests”. Weather is only one thing that affects the type of vegetation in an area. Soil type is a major factor. The soil in Houston is not the same as the soil in Raleigh so it is unlikely that vegetation in Raleigh is going to turn into Houston vegetation (which sounds like the NC Sandhills instead).
It’ll be cold soon enough for me. Loving that i can tackle all those end of season yard chores in such nice weather.
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Weird weather. It is supposed to be in the 60’s and 70’s this week here…10 or more degrees above normal.
Less heating oil burned!
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