[Fredesch]

Originally Posted by sinatras

OK everybody listen up, b/c I'm only going to type this once.

Here is why THE SUMMER IN FLORIDA FEELS MORE HUMID AND HOT THAN SUMMER IN THE REST OF THE COUNTRY.

FLORIDA SUN IS STRONGER: Because Florida lies so close to the equator, it receives stronger sunlight than the rest of the country. YES, INCLUDING TENNESSEE. If you shine a flashlight on a globe, right in the middle, the area where the light is the brightest represents the areas where the sun’s radiation is most concentrated, and this is responsible for creating heat. If you spin the globe slowly, just as the Earth turns on its axis to create day and night, you’ll also discover that Florida is almost always right in the path of your flashlight during the day. As such, the radiation builds, and the atmosphere traps the heat. Florida traps the most heat.

WE ARE SURROUNDED BY HOT WATER: Another reason behind the hot Florida summers can be found on the Western, Eastern, and Southern coastlines – the water. Florida is bordered by the Gulf of Mexico to the west and the Atlantic Ocean to the east. Both of these bodies of water are quite hot; they contain currents of water warmed in the tropics, and this water stays relatively warm all year long. This warm water is partially responsible for hot Florida summers, and it also helps explain why the temperatures in Florida almost never drop below freezing in the winter, too. Air moving across this water absorbs some of the heat, which is then transferred to the land.

On the scale of oppressive hot summers, Florida is at the top, everyone else in the country fights for the middle and the low.

You can scream all you want about the oppressively hot and humid summers in Tennessee, Iowa, DC, Boston, Houston, Billings, Fargo, Virginia Beach, Omaha and any other place in the continental U.S. But none of those places receive the strongest sunlight (heat) or are surrounded by hot water (humidity) like Florida does/is.

My neighborhood does not feel more humid and hot than many parts of the country. Have you ever gone through summer in St Louis or anywhere south of Philly in the midwest or eastern half of the US along a big river?

Places like St Louis, Vicksburg MS and other inland places along a big river constantly get humidity from the river, but a river doesn't have enough width or thermal mass to create a cooling breeze. The whole continental interior bakes all summer long. Phoenix Az has very hot weather and create their own unbearable humidity viia lawn sprinklers.The rest of Az gets that dry heat some people prefer for mummification.

Florida is surrounded by warm water and it makes our winter mild and cools us in the summer. The breeze between the ocean and land goes from cool to warm. In the summer the ocean is usually cooler and a cooling breeze will come from the ocean. Florida has a lot of coastline and that helps keep the edge of the state from baking all summer like Baton Rouge.

[AutumnSun]

We have two months of winter Jan-Feb. Depending on the year, it is pleasant from Oct-April(sometimes more waiting until Nov or ending in March). The high humidity and heat set in during May and stay through Sept(dew point in the 70s and highs in the 90s).

[expatCA]

Originally Posted by Fredesch

My neighborhood does not feel more humid and hot than many parts of the country. Have you ever gone through summer in St Louis or anywhere south of Philly in the midwest or eastern half of the US along a big river?

Places like St Louis, Vicksburg MS and other inland places along a big river constantly get humidity from the river, but a river doesn't have enough width or thermal mass to create a cooling breeze. The whole continental interior bakes all summer long. Phoenix Az has very hot weather and create their own unbearable humidity viia lawn sprinklers.The rest of Az gets that dry heat some people prefer for mummification.

Florida is surrounded by warm water and it makes our winter mild and cools us in the summer. The breeze between the ocean and land goes from cool to warm. In the summer the ocean is usually cooler and a cooling breeze will come from the ocean. Florida has a lot of coastline and that helps keep the edge of the state from baking all summer like Baton Rouge.

You are correct.

[expatCA]

Originally Posted by AutumnSun

We have two months of winter Jan-Feb. Depending on the year, it is pleasant from Oct-April(sometimes more waiting until Nov or ending in March). The high humidity and heat set in during May and stay through Sept(dew point in the 70s and highs in the 90s).

Yep, so live by the Atlantic for cool breezes. The Gulf not so much, but still it helps.

[sinatras]

Originally Posted by Fredesch

My neighborhood does not feel more humid and hot than many parts of the country. Have you ever gone through summer in St Louis or anywhere south of Philly in the midwest or eastern half of the US along a big river?

Places like St Louis, Vicksburg MS and other inland places along a big river constantly get humidity from the river, but a river doesn't have enough width or thermal mass to create a cooling breeze. The whole continental interior bakes all summer long. Phoenix Az has very hot weather and create their own unbearable humidity viia lawn sprinklers.The rest of Az gets that dry heat some people prefer for mummification.

Florida is surrounded by warm water and it makes our winter mild and cools us in the summer. The breeze between the ocean and land goes from cool to warm. In the summer the ocean is usually cooler and a cooling breeze will come from the ocean. Florida has a lot of coastline and that helps keep the edge of the state from baking all summer like Baton Rouge.

What part of Florida is closest to the equator and gets the most sun radiation did you NOT understand?

I have lived in Philly and I have been to Mississippi and Phoenix in summer. Better than Florida.

[bmw335xi]

Originally Posted by sinatras

What part of Florida is closest to the equator and gets the most sun radiation did you NOT understand?

I have lived in Philly and I have been to Mississippi and Phoenix in summer. Better than Florida.

Phoenix is horrible in summer, it’s so dry and hot, everything is brown, eww

[LifeIsGood01]

Today was hot where I am in SW Florida, but it was hotter in the northeast, but around 7 pm when I took the dogs out to the backyard there was a breeze and it was beautiful out.

[Travelassie]

Originally Posted by sinatras

What part of Florida is closest to the equator and gets the most sun radiation did you NOT understand?

I have lived in Philly and I have been to Mississippi and Phoenix in summer. Better than Florida.

Sounds as though it's about time you got out of the Sunshine State where the "worst heat and humidity" and hot stove temperature lands surrounded by boiling water seas won't fry your thought processes so much, LOL.

And while you're at it, a quick look at a globe will show you the locations that actually are closest to the equator-hint, they don't include FL. In the western hemisphere, they'd be Columbia, Equador and Brazil......

[jean_ji]

Originally Posted by LifeIsGood01

Today was hot where I am in SW Florida, but it was hotter in the northeast, but around 7 pm when I took the dogs out to the backyard there was a breeze and it was beautiful out.

I thought it was an absolutely, lovely evening outside last night too. We had dinner at a neighbor’s and went out on their screened lanai afterwards. One of their relatives, visiting from a northern state, thought it was still too hot out there and was complaining. Seriously?

There were eight people on the lanai. The one person who was complaining would likely be one to rant on the internet about how hot and miserable Florida is, but you wouldn’t hear from the other seven people who were enjoying it.

[sinatras]

Originally Posted by Travelassie

Sounds as though it's about time you got out of the Sunshine State where the "worst heat and humidity" and hot stove temperature lands surrounded by boiling water seas won't fry your thought processes so much, LOL.

And while you're at it, a quick look at a globe will show you the locations that actually are closest to the equator-hint, they don't include FL. In the western hemisphere, they'd be Columbia, Equador and Brazil......

I was referring to the state closest to the equator in the continental US obviously. Nobody in this thread is comparing Florida climate to those of Colombia, Equador and Brazil.

By the way Colombia is not spelled with a U. Perhaps your brain is the one that's fried.