Like the Florida weather? I challenge you to go without air condition!

[SunKrist]

Elfyum,

I got the information from the City Data site for St. Petersburg:

http://www.city-data.com/us-cities/T...d-Climate.html

It's at the end of the first paragraph, "Nevertheless, the city boasts an average 361 days of sunshine per year."

But, yeah, that makes sense that AZ has more actual sunshine than St. Pete, where the sun peeks out for a few minutes practically every day, but not all day. Because it does rain a lot here, especially in the summer.

Have a nice rest-of-the-day

[sunrico90]

In the northwest was a bit cooler:
FRI Cloudy
Low 40°F
High 52°F

[MaryLou2007]

I was bored during lunch today and went back and read some of the older posts on this thread.

I guess what the original poster wanted to say is: If you claim to like FL weather, why don't you stay outside/outdoors more often and tough it out instead of hiding inside where the A/C is on?

Frankly, the poster is right to make that statement. It points out the fact that people say they "love" the weather down here, but are indoors 24/7 unless they are outdoors for minutes at a time, when they go to the grocery store (late at night) or going to their cars from work to their homes. THAT is not enjoying the local weather, that is tolerating it for most of the year to enjoy the winter time, which is mild, and nice and people then get outside and do stuff.

One of the big surprises that out-of-state folk will find is that the streets in Central Florida are empty for the most part. In the winter, people feel the "wet chill" under their jackets so they stay home a lot. In the summer time (9 months) they are too hot to come out until it's nighttime. Back in CO, people are out year round. I learned (to my great amazement) that locals stay indoors a lot, and tourists are the ones you see walking around in the heat. How crazy is that??

I don't know who thinks high humidity and oppressive heat to be enjoyable, but it takes all kinds!! Some people like to sweat... and then go to Publix and wait in line.... as close as possible to the people in front of them! Yuck!

[giddyup]

For me, I DO love the warm and yes even the hot; I'm from Chicago, and unless it was a sweltering week of 100's with the high humidity where your house would get to 110 - 120 we never ran our AC in the summer; for one, I gripe too much in the winter to gripe at all in the summer and for two, I agree with the point of this post that if you claim to like the summers / heat and can't live without your air, then it is questionable what you really like.

For us, we LOVE warm... right now it is -6 (read MINUS 6) and that is up from the -17 reading of earlier today. Hoping to be out of here and down there soon! None to soon for me....

On the pragmatic side of things, I've been told that it is not good for your house in Florida to leave your windows open a lot, that you would get mold... I didn't read this post through so maybe it was mentioned, but if not anyone care to comment on the mold angle? I was bummed out when I heard that. We rented a house in Florida and the owners or rental agency (not sure which) wanted us to leave the air on and not turn if off for this reason.

[ejbx2]

When we first moved down south, I was starting to think that I might have made a mistake once summer was upon us. Each year I am getting more tolerant of the heat, so much so that I only set my air on 78 degrees so I don't pay the $300 a month I have read so much about. My cars air also went out two years ago but I just roll down the windows and usually it doesn't get too bad (I would just rather spend the money to get it fixed elsewhere). When I lived in Michigan, I was paying over $200 a month to heat my house from mid-October to mid-April. Now my family members are telling me that they are spending about $300-400 a month to heat their homes the past couple of years, and let me tell you that they keep it pretty cold in their houses (my mom sets the heat at 65 and my sister sets her heat at 62 or 63). Now I am paying about $125-150 to cool my house from June to mid-September. Basically what I am saying is that things can be tough wherever you go. Sometimes its just a matter sucking it up and making the best of the worst times.

[Dee2e]

Originally Posted by MaryLou2007

I was bored during lunch today and went back and read some of the older posts on this thread.

I guess what the original poster wanted to say is: If you claim to like FL weather, why don't you stay outside/outdoors more often and tough it out instead of hiding inside where the A/C is on?

Frankly, the poster is right to make that statement. It points out the fact that people say they "love" the weather down here, but are indoors 24/7 unless they are outdoors for minutes at a time, when they go to the grocery store (late at night) or going to their cars from work to their homes. THAT is not enjoying the local weather, that is tolerating it for most of the year to enjoy the winter time, which is mild, and nice and people then get outside and do stuff.

One of the big surprises that out-of-state folk will find is that the streets in Central Florida are empty for the most part. In the winter, people feel the "wet chill" under their jackets so they stay home a lot. In the summer time (9 months) they are too hot to come out until it's nighttime. Back in CO, people are out year round. I learned (to my great amazement) that locals stay indoors a lot, and tourists are the ones you see walking around in the heat. How crazy is that??

I don't know who thinks high humidity and oppressive heat to be enjoyable, but it takes all kinds!! Some people like to sweat... and then go to Publix and wait in line.... as close as possible to the people in front of them! Yuck!

lol, you make a good point, Marylou.

Personally, I usually swim every day and I do that outside. We eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner mostly every day on our patio. In fact, I've been married three years and my husband recently commented that we've never eaten at the kitchen table and only use the dining room table for some holidays. He questioned why we had a kitchen table. I told him the kitchen would look funny without one! Not everyone hides in a/c.

Thanks for the chuckle!