[amberamour]

I am a FL native, 46 years, and although I haven't enjoyed the weather for a long time I have only recently begun to detest the heat and humidity, mainly because I was diagnosed with rosacea last year and heat/humidity are both huge triggers to flushes. I am a redhead with freckles and ten minutes outside in summer has me looking like a lobster and feeling like one too -- just dumped into boiling water!
I am housebound from May-October. Sometimes the heat starts in April. This year it hasn't been even slightly cool until today, inching into late November! It was 75 and I spent the whole morning outside enjoying it. What a pleasure! But only the morning was cool and after lunch it's back inside for me.
We're discussing a move to SC before my oldest enters school in 2008 and besides the other reasons we'd want to leave FL is the disability I am suffering from not being able to do anything outside for 6-7 months of the year. I have two kids and am depriving them of many days enjoying nature. I have to really keep them occupied with arts and crafts, puzzles, videos and other indoor activities. It's so hard filling up a whole day without being able to do what FL offers so much of.
Anyway, for anyone with rosacea or other conditions made worse by heat/humidity, carefully consider how much you will be stuck indoors before moving here.

[Ladywithafan]

The west coast of Florida is certainly more humid than the East coast. I've lived on/off barrier islands on the west coast since 1991...our winters seem to me like they're getting colder....don't know if my skin got thin or what but this last summer was pretty humid....I've been to Houston in August & I still think Houston's hotter!....I don't know...it's hard to moist from May to October though....I'd like to move to AZ...but it sounds like the a/c bills are huge & I'll be constantly moisturizing? That's the funny thing here, you don't need a lot of lotion (except at beach) 'cause it will just roll off in the humidity ...lol!

[sunrico90]

This article was posted on 9/3/2003 and Key West is the USA's Humidity Capital....

All of Florida and the Texas Gulf Coast, along with the coastal parts of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, and some other coastal areas of the Southeast could claim the right to hold the USA's annual humidity festival.

If you want to get really picky, Key West, Fla., has the best technical claim to being the USA's humidity capital, at least among places with long-term weather observations.

But, even though Key West is slightly more humid, on the average in the summer than Houston, you are more likely to feel the humidity more in downtown Houston as you rush from one air-conditioned building to another than if you were sitting outdoors in the breeze next to the water, shaded from the sun, sipping a drink in Key West.

First, let's talk about what we mean by humidity. I'm assuming you and your friend are arguing about how the humidity makes you feel. For that, forget about relative humidity even though it's the figure you hear the most often.

If you want to know how comfortable you're going to be, you want to know the dew point. Allowing for differences among people and their tolerance for humidity, most people are going to start feeling the humidity is getting out of hand when the dewpoint is above 70 degrees. Dewpoints above 60 are going to make it feel humid, maybe a little too humid for some people.

http://www.usatoday.com/weather/reso...humidity_x.htm

[tallrick]

I can tell you from experience that Key Largo where I live is the hottest, most uncomfortable weather location anywhere in the USA. Tonight is the first time that the weather is absolutely wonderful at night. I am a much nicer guy when the nightime temp goes below 70!

[bunnywabbit!]

Originally Posted by carolinadreamin

I am housebound from May-October.

Me too. I don't know how most places can stay open for business during that season. All I did this summer was sleep!

[sunrico90]

Our Sunday in Navarre was windy and cold, is 46 degrees

Good Night,,


Feels Like: N/A°F
UV Index: 0 Low
Wind: From the N at 7 mph
Humidity: 63 %
Visibility: 4.00 miles
Barometer: 30.20 inches and Rising

[CelticLady1]

This morning, in Navarre, at 6:30am, it is 36 degrees with a wind chill of 32. I get to wear one of my sweaters. Hurray! Now, if we could only get enough cold days to rid ourselves of the bugs. Went fishing last Sunday, (not yesterday), and there were swarms of the little buggers!

[nwbrdtn4]

Originally Posted by dana/rick

It's hot here, but a/c gets you by- I thought New Orleans was way more uncompfortable than where I am in central fla

Yeah i bet it is but try going to SW Florida .. its way more intense there

[RUBIES77]

Originally Posted by bamboosmom

It is humid, but I remember it being just as humid in Queens NY when we lived there. Its just humid here more because of the longer warm and hot months.
In the winter the weather is perfect here!

THAT IS THE ONLY TIME, I AM MOVING TO SAN DIEGO. (Another New Yorker!)

[RUBIES77]

Originally Posted by sunrico90

Our Sunday in Navarre was windy and cold, is 46 degrees

Good Night,,


Feels Like: N/A°F
UV Index: 0 Low
Wind: From the N at 7 mph
Humidity: 63 %
Visibility: 4.00 miles
Barometer: 30.20 inches and Rising

I WILL PUT UP WITH THE COLD AS LONG AS I CAN LOOK AT THAT BEAUTIFUL BEACH IN NAVARRE WITH THE WHITE SAND!!!!!!