[Seattle's Best 28]

Originally Posted by JViello

Well thank you.

I have green eyes and his mom blue so we think it's a mix.

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Well we have our disagreements on another blog but how cute!

[Antlered Chamataka]

Originally Posted by springking

i love it in Connecticut. Yes, it gets cold sometimes. Go on vacation! but down south year round? eek!

Man, every time there is a junior member in defence of Connecticut, in its need of hour

[JViello]

Originally Posted by Seattle's Best 28

Well we have our disagreements on another blog but how cute!

Thanks.

Keep in mind, I'm just stretching your thinking a little on the other posts. It's nothing personal.

[Seattle's Best 28]

Originally Posted by Colossus_Antonis

Man, every time there is a junior member in defence of Connecticut, in its need of hour

What does that mean?

[POAlover]

Originally Posted by Leilani Vasquez

Yes, you certainly get used to it as time passes.

It's been 48 years and I'm still waiting to get used to it...lol

[LateNiteCruisin]

He He He

Originally Posted by POAlover

It's been 48 years and I'm still waiting to get used to it...lol

[wavehunter007]

Originally Posted by lovinthegulf

I don't blame you, I came from Michigan and like Conneticut it is cold. I now live in Florida on the Gulf of Mexico near Clearwater and go to the beach all the time and go swimming. I work in the air conditioning and only deal with the heat and high humidity about three months out of the year. The best part about the heat you can always go swimming to cool off.

If a person lives in the northern states they need to enjoy the four seasons and deal with the snow storms, ice storms and the cold a lot longer then the heat in florida. I would definitely deal with the hurricanes any day of the week then the snow, ice and cold.

Just to play the weather geek here…Jviello is totally correct on this one. Michigan shares very little in common with a typical winter in the Tri-State area. Southern Michigan gets twice as much snow and is significantly colder in winter than anywhere in Connecticut. Northern Michigan is of course in a class by itself in terms of cold and snow. Here is a quick comparison based on National Weather Service data. Below are mean temps (add about 10 F for the high…subtract about 8 for the low). You get the idea.

New Haven/Bridgeport Connecticut (24.5 inches of snow)
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
30 32 39 49 60 69 74 73 66 56 45 35

Flint/Detroit, Michigan (42 .8 inches of snow)
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
22 23 34 46 56 65 70 68 61 50 39 27


The average 3-month (Dec/Jan/Feb) winter temperature in southern Michigan is 24 F…while the average 3-month winter temperature in southern Connecticut is 32 F . So southern Connecticut is about 8 F warmer day and night in the winter months than southern Michigan. To put that in perspective…Virginia Beach, VA has an average 3-month winter temperature of 40.6 F – about 8 F warmer than southern Connecticut.


So, put another way…the difference in a southern Michigan winter and a Connecticut winter…is about the difference between a Connecticut winter and a southern Virginia winter. On the down side I guess… Connecticut like the rest of the East Coast, is hotter and more humid in summer than Michigan.

[ajacques]

Originally Posted by wannabetterlife

I am sooo sick of the snow and ice and being stuck in this house for days on end...I wish I could move to Florida...Id take a hurricane over this crappy weather anyday.

So I know this is an old post but I just had to put in my 2cents. I currently live in Orlando. I can wait to move up north. It gets sooooo hot here in July. I used to have to take the bus and it was unberable. Yea the temp my only technically be 90 degrees but with the humidity it can feel 20 degrees hotter than that.

Which brings me to the hurricans. Yea we only get a really bad one once every 5-8 years depending where you at in the state. I was w/out electric for 2 weeks and had to miss work (w/out pay). I must have taken a 3 cold showers a day to keep from passing out. I don't think I've ever sweated as much : ) and not to mention we had an ice shortage and you were rationed to 1 bag of ice per person. And the gas pumps got ****ed up; i remeber there were waiting lines at some stations. I didn't drive during that time so the main reason I had to miss work was because the some buses weren't weren't running. Yea....that was fun

[Slipperman]

Originally Posted by andthentherewere3

I don't like Connecticut's winters, and I've been here nearly 30 years. The cold temps start too soon and end too late in the seasons.

wow you've been here 30 years and haven't yet noticed how mild CT's winters are in comparison to other places? heck we still get 50's and 60's in November and December. January is really the only truly cold month. no way is CT as bad as say the Dakota's, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Miane, etc. i personally wish our winters were a little longer. i can't stand hot sticky weather.

[andthentherewere3]

Originally Posted by Slipperman

wow you've been here 30 years and haven't yet noticed how mild CT's winters are in comparison to other places? heck we still get 50's and 60's in November and December. January is really the only truly cold month. no way is CT as bad as say the Dakota's, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Miane, etc.

Sixties in November and December are not the average temperature, though. The average temp for November is 51, and December is 40. January is 35, February is 39. I never said we were one of the coldest states in the country, I just wish it warmed up sooner in the spring, and cooled down slower in the fall. Everyone's preferences are different.