It's HOT! It's COLD! It's WINDY! It's DRY! It's WET! It's OUR Weather! (Dallas: activities, averages)

[busterkeaton]

Originally Posted by highcotton

I'm a little dubious of the frolicking stuff. Are you sure the cold weather hasn't frozen your grey matter?

Grey Matter??? That sounds like something you get during them sweltering, unending days/nights of inferno like summer temps.

[kenshi]

Originally Posted by highcotton

It always makes perfect sense when someone says they enjoy the drab, gray, short, cold days of late fall and winter over the sunny, warm, blue skies, green growth, colorful and flowery, full-of-life days of spring and summer.

Do you keep the temperature turned way down and close all your blinds, shades and drapes so it is dark, cold and wintry feeling in the house?

I don't know what more to say. I've went into details about how I play when it snows here, talked about my trip to the north for the sole purpose of seeing snow and posted a picture of me in the snow at a Sioux City hotel when it was -2 F outside, mentioned repeatedly to you that I'd rather live in a colder climate where it snows more in the winter, and you refuse to believe that anyone could prefer the winter over the summer... These guys really liked the snow too.

[kenshi]

And how can you look at this and say it's anything but absolutely beautiful?

[highcotton]

Originally Posted by kenshi

And how can you look at this and say it's anything but absolutely beautiful?

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Lots of nature's events are beautiful. But that doesn't mean they are necessarily desirable.

[Cathy4017]

Originally Posted by highcotton

That's good news! Keep that frozen stuff up north somewhere. Bring on the blue skies, sunshine and warmth.

LOL!! I'm cracking up at this thread........

This is often how it breaks out in most areas of Texas (and not necessarily consecutively):

1. 3 months of hot weather
2. 5 more months of hot-as-hell weather
3. 2 months of fairly temperate weather
4. 1.5 months of cool weather
5. 0.5 months (that's 2 weeks!!) of truly cold/icy/snowy/brutal weather

So you are talking about very little really cold weather in most of Texas--the upper Panhandle can be an exception some years.

[highcotton]

Originally Posted by Cathy4017

LOL!! I'm cracking up at this thread........

This is often how it breaks out in most areas of Texas (and not necessarily consecutively):

1. 3 months of hot weather
2. 5 more months of hot-as-hell weather
3. 2 months of fairly temperate weather
4. 1.5 months of cool weather
5. 0.5 months (that's 2 weeks!!) of truly cold/icy/snowy/brutal weather

So you are talking about very little really cold weather in most of Texas--the upper Panhandle can be an exception some years.

I'm cracking up too!

[Cathy4017]

Originally Posted by highcotton

I'm cracking up too!

What, you mean you don't agree?!?

[busterkeaton]

Originally Posted by highcotton

I'm cracking up too!

You're getting too hot, that's all. So turn the heat down, some, on your thermostat...you'll be okay.

[highcotton]

Originally Posted by Cathy4017

What, you mean you don't agree?!?

This is often how it breaks out in most areas of Texas (and not necessarily consecutively):

1. 3 months of hot weather
2. 5 more months of hot-as-hell weather
3. 2 months of fairly temperate weather
4. 1.5 months of cool weather
5. 0.5 months (that's 2 weeks!!) of truly cold/icy/snowy/brutal weather

I wouldn't consider 8 total months to be hot, and/or hot-as-hell weather. You do realize that 8 months is like from March 1 to November 1? Hot or hot-as hell in March, April, May and October? - really now? Why don't you cut that 8 month time period of yours in half to maybe 4 months? Or maybe 3 months? Or maybe less? It's certainly not hot for 8 months...

My 'cracking up' comment is meant for the many people who think (like you do) that it's either hot or hot-as-hell two-thirds of the year. That's cracking up funny!

[synchronicity]

Originally Posted by highcotton

I wouldn't consider 8 total months to be hot, and/or hot-as-hell weather. You do realize that 8 months is like from March 1 to November 1? Hot or hot-as hell in March, April, May and October? - really now? Why don't you cut that 8 month time period of yours in half to maybe 4 months? Or maybe 3 months? Or maybe less? It's certainly not hot for 8 months...

My 'cracking up' comment is meant for the many people who think (like you do) that it's either hot or hot-as-hell two-thirds of the year. That's cracking up funny!

Well, if we were to actually get serious (and I'm not for a moment suggesting that we SHOULD on this thread, but if we were) we'd have to decide what constitutes "hot", "hot-as-hell", "cool", "truly cold", etc.

My guess is that for you, it's "truly cold" anytime the temperature dips below 65 degrees.

As an FYI- the "average high temperature" in (for comparison) Chicago peaks at 85 degrees in late July. Obviously, it often gets hotter than that in Chi, but that's the highest AVERAGE high temperature for any day of the year. By contrast, Dallas matches or exceeds that average high from May 19 thru September 29. On the flip side, the "average low temperature" in Dallas hits its nadir in early January, at 36 degrees. In Chicago the average low reaches or goes below that November 13 and doesn't exceed it again until March 30.

Just tossing that out as a point of reference.