Weather for a Floridian

flips4ever
Mon, 07 Jan 2013 17:22:14 +0000

I live 20 miles from Rice and my grandparents are all in Polk County, FL so I have a good feel for the weather both places. Humidity is about the same in both places in summer but it’s dryer in winter in Houston. Orlando gets regular afternoon rains during the hot months and Houston gets a lot of rain in summer, but it’s not as predictably regular every afternoon. It’s a little hotter in Houston in summer and sometimes its unbearably hot here. It’s just about never unbearably hot in central FL. It is too hot to wear jeans in the daytime in Houston in summer. Jeans are winter clothing here.

It’s colder in Houston than central FL in winter, but not so much colder that you need a whole new wardrobe. We don’t get snow. We have palm trees and banana trees, but most citrus trees don’t do well here.

Once the high temps are below 60 on a regular basis, we call that winter in Houston. If a day doesn’t get above 50, we call it a cold day.