[Tungsten_Udder]

Originally Posted by Lakeland Yankee

Nope, it's either too hot and humid or too cold. Where's my pleasant middle????

I consider anything above 80 degrees summer-like especially with the high humidity that makes it feel even hotter.

I wish our winters were the 70/50 that people think they are. Average temps are NOT the reality here in Florida. One day it's 85 and the next night it's down in the 30's. It makes it kind of hard to adjust.

Well, they're really averages, but yeah, it's not necessarily the case that the average temperature is the typical temperature at any given time.

Re 85 to 30s, etc., some folks apparently would believe that Florida rapidly, literally changes from Summer to Winter repeatedly in the course of a day or two. "Florida? Oh, yeah, last year we had 56 summers and 25 winters."

[Lakeland Yankee]

Originally Posted by Tungsten_Udder

Re 85 to 30s, etc., some folks apparently would believe that Florida rapidly, literally changes from Summer to Winter repeatedly in the course of a day or two.

I never said that it repeatedly changes from 85 to 30 in a course of a day or two. I know last winter we went from above average temps (80's) down to well below average temps (30's) in a course of a couple days.

[Tungsten_Udder]

Originally Posted by Lakeland Yankee

I never said that it repeatedly changes from 85 to 30 in a course of a day or two. I know last winter we went from above average temps (80's) down to well below average temps (30's) in a course of a couple days.

So you'd say that it's neither the case that the actual temperatures are close to the average temperatures nor that the actual tempertarures regularly fluctuate quite a bit above and below (say maybe 15 degrees or more) the averages?

[Jungle George]

OMG!!!!

[Nomadicus]

I think we may have set a record or two. Best that we set new records when the temps are above 32° so we don't wipe out a few million in agricultural commodities. In my immediate area we were with in 4° of setting a new record.

[On-da-Beach]

Just for a different spin... I spent 2 weeks on Lake Champlain one July. The temps would go from high 80's during the day to mid 40's at night.

Does that mean it's summer during the daytime and winter at night?

I always thought the equinox determined the seasons. This banter started with some comments about the cold weather and I remarked about those people who bitterly complain about 90+ temps 10 months of the year. Their kids won't go outside because it's too hot. The A/C is always running, so on and so on...
I didn't say 80's or 90's. Holy smoke, it gets into those vague temps just about anywhere in the country in the summer months. It does not however become summer in the 80's or 90's.

Now that it has cooled (maybe only for a short time) is October one of the two months of cooler temps? My point is that the comments about 10 months of unbearable temps are exaggerated.

[TANaples]

Originally Posted by On-da-Beach

Just for a different spin... I spent 2 weeks on Lake Champlain one July. The temps would go from high 80's during the day to mid 40's at night.

Does that mean it's summer during the daytime and winter at night?

I always thought the equinox determined the seasons. This banter started with some comments about the cold weather and I remarked about those people who bitterly complain about 90+ temps 10 months of the year. Their kids won't go outside because it's too hot. The A/C is always running, so on and so on...
I didn't say 80's or 90's. Holy smoke, it gets into those vague temps just about anywhere in the country in the summer months. It does not however become summer in the 80's or 90's.

Now that it has cooled (maybe only for a short time) is October one of the two months of cooler temps? My point is that the comments about 10 months of unbearable temps are exaggerated.

It was only a couple of days of cooler weather due a cold front. The "normal" weather is returning. No, October is not one of the two months of cooler temps, if there is any at all.

[gypsychic]

Originally Posted by TANaples

It was only a couple of days of cooler weather due a cold front. The "normal" weather is returning. No, October is not one of the two months of cooler temps, if there is any at all.

Maybe for you - where I am it will be 70's/50's this weekend.

[doggiebus]

Originally Posted by On-da-Beach

My point is that the comments about 10 months of unbearable temps are exaggerated.

Look, you may think living in a place that has 80F+ for 10 months is bearable for yourself, GREAT for you. But for me and many other people living in a place that has 10 months of HEAT it is NOT bearable. And is not exaggerated. FYI, not all of Florida has 10 months of HEAT, its mainly south of Orlando. The fact is in 2007 we had 313 days in the 80s or 90s for the high (not an average temp for the day) here in Miami, you can't exaggerate the FACT.

And no October is not one of the cooler months. This cold front we had is not usual, and will not stick around much longer, it will be back in the 80s by the weekend.

[Tungsten_Udder]

Originally Posted by doggiebus

Look, you may think living in a place that has 80F+ for 10 months is bearable for yourself, GREAT for you. But for me and many other people living in a place that has 10 months of HEAT it is NOT bearable. And is not exaggerated. FYI, not all of Florida has 10 months of HEAT, its mainly south of Orlando. The fact is in 2007 we had 313 days in the 80s or 90s for the high (not an average temp for the day) here in Miami, you can't exaggerate the FACT.

And no October is not one of the cooler months. This cold front we had is not usual, and will not stick around much longer, it will be back in the 80s by the weekend.

Well, what's bearable to someone is subjective, sure. I do not think that anyone is claiming that South Florida, especially, doesn't have weather that most folks would think is hot. But you also can't let your dissatisfaction with the weather get in the way of more balanced comments, such as the fact that it's not actually summer just because it's hot. Noting that it's not actually summer isn't at all saying that it's not perhaps 100 degrees outside.

Also, October is one of the cooler months, relative to the warmer months, such as July and August, which are the hottest months in Miami. That's not saying, "doggiebus is going to feel like he's experiencing nice cool weather, and he's going to like it". It's just saying that in October, the temperatures are lower than they are in those other months on average. That would be the case even if July and August were typically 120 degrees and October was typically 115. One thing is about what the facts are, as well as what words like "cooler" conventionally mean. The other is about your opinion of the weather. There's a difference there.

And yes, Miami is forecast to get back to the 80s over the weekend--83 on Saturday, 81 on Sunday, 83 on Monday, and a low of 67 each day.