[JPrzybylski07]

Originally Posted by MOforthewin

The atlantic around daytona hovers around 80 to 82 degrees during the summer months.

The Gulf around Naples is usually 87 to 92 degrees! That's why SWFL is always so humid.

Yes I knew that but for someone else not as familiar with Florida, SWFL is the most humid part of the state especially in the summer. With the very warm Gulf and all the shallow bays along that coast it is the perfect conditions for the highest of high humidity.

[Corrie22]

SWFL is built in a swamp....surrounded by swamp

[MOforthewin]

Originally Posted by JPrzybylski07

Yes I knew that but for someone else not as familiar with Florida, SWFL is the most humid part of the state especially in the summer. With the very warm Gulf and all the shallow bays along that coast it is the perfect conditions for the highest of high humidity.

Actually the keys and miami are more humid.

[JPrzybylski07]

Originally Posted by MOforthewin

Actually the keys and miami are more humid.

I would debate that. Bring in dew points into the equation…. In the summer Naples hovers around 77-78…. Plus on that side you get the Atlantic breezes. Maybe western portions of Miami proper are on the same level as Naples/FM but not along that Atlantic coast. Either way south Florida in general is disgusting in summer.

[1insider]

Originally Posted by MOforthewin

The atlantic around daytona hovers around 80 to 82 degrees during the summer months.

The Gulf around Naples is usually 87 to 92 degrees! That's why SWFL is always so humid.

And we have a reliable summer sea breeze here on the east coast that keeps the area close to the beach several degrees cooler than just a few blocks inland. Orlando is routinely 5+ degrees hotter in the summer on most days. The temps beachside are several degrees cooler along the coast than a few blocks inland once the sea breeze kicks in. Bonus: the oceanfront row doesn't have the same bug issue that everyone else deals with for that same sea breeze reason.

[minna_reid]

This is why I ended up in Jacksonville instead of the gulf coast as I had planned. The year I was deciding to move the red tide was especially bad, and had gone as north as Clearwater. Actually it was even in South FL on the east coast that year. It was nasty.
I decided that since one of my main motivators to move to FL was so I could visit the beach every day if I wanted to, I could never live where red tide was an issue. It was my understanding from my own research that the red tide was aggravated by the draining of some of the everglades for big sugar to set up shop - as I recall, its been a few years tbh. Read up on the problems surrounding Lake Okeechobee btw - its all part of the same problem.
But big sugar is a powerful entity, so don't hold your breath on anything changing.

[LKJ1988]

Originally Posted by MOforthewin

Actually the keys and miami are more humid.

My area is since i am right on the gulf and since we are in a west flow bro all summer the insane dew points of 74 to 84f are a killer. Nothing worse than a west flow with the wind blowing off of nasty 90f+ water temps.

[Outer_Bluegrass]

Collier County is drier and less humid than Broward County. In fact, Naples receives around 11 or 12 fewer inches of precipitation annually than Fort Lauderdale.

[LKJ1988]

East coast just about always gets more rain jane since we are in a west flow all summer. I get very little rain most every summer.

[beachmouse]

Why is is that people are quick to call the state a scam when it often comes down to they didn’t do basic research before making a life-changing decision?