What do you LIKE and DISLIKE about living in Knoxville? (Chattanooga: home, high school)

[creeksitter]

I find this week's weather pretty disagreeable myself. The bad part is no cold front in the forecast. That's not typical. Usually there's a pleasant day showing up on the 8 day forcast to look forward to. Anyway, summer is something you endure around here. along with the 3 weeks of winter. I spent this evening at my "office" by the creek in the smokies. Pretty pleasant as long as you are within 10 feet of that cool water.

My garden loves the rain, though.

[hiknapster]

Yep. And the most favorite thing I love about Knoxville is the WEATHER. No kidding!

I've lived up North, in New England, and that is brutally cold. I've lived in southwest Florida and that is brutally hot. Hotter than Orlando, and that is saying something.

It has a mild winter. A couple dustings of snow that melt that day or the next. Remember I said dustings.

Summer is nothing like Florida.

When we first visited we camped out near Chattanooga. We were in a tent and really worried that we would be too hot. This was for ten days in July. We marveled at how it wasn't so hot and it was incredibly pleasant at night. I'd wake up and put a jacket on!

No there was not a cold front. The locals were all complaining about how terribly hot it was.

Spring, of course, is splendid. Something that just takes your breath away. I'm sorry, but I never experienced spring in Mass. or Florida.

The locals, most of them, whine about the weather. They have no idea how good they have it. Sometimes it gets on my nerves.

[hiknapster]

Originally Posted by creeksitter

I find this week's weather pretty disagreeable myself. The bad part is no cold front in the forecast. That's not typical. Usually there's a pleasant day showing up on the 8 day forcast to look forward to. Anyway, summer is something you endure around here. along with the 3 weeks of winter. I spent this evening at my "office" by the creek in the smokies. Pretty pleasant as long as you are within 10 feet of that cool water.

My garden loves the rain, though.

The high, for the past three days, in chronological order, was 81, 86 and 89.

As I write this, in Fort Myers, it is 82 freakin' degrees. It's late at night, for crying out loud. Now THAT is hot. Up in Mass, at my mom's house, it is 54 degrees. Here, in Knoxville, it is 70 degrees.

My garden loves the rain, too. It is has been so much better this year, now that we are finally not having a drought.

[itsajourney]

Originally Posted by hiknapster

The high, for the past three days, in chronological order, was 81, 86 and 89.

As I write this, in Fort Myers, it is 82 freakin' degrees. It's late at night, for crying out loud. Now THAT is hot. Up in Mass, at my mom's house, it is 54 degrees. Here, in Knoxville, it is 70 degrees.

My garden loves the rain, too. It is has been so much better this year, now that we are finally not having a drought.

I have to agree with you on all of the above....I don't care what anybody says about hot & humid. If you have never lived in hot, steamy Florida during the summer--you have no idea what hot & humid means (except maybe for the south guf coast in Texas). Everyone up north thinks that 100 and humid there is just as bad as summer in Florida---no,no,no,no,no,no,no,no,no--IT IS NOT. I hear so many people saying, "Well, at least it rains all the time to cool things off." wrong,wrong,wrong,wrong,--it actually makes it much worse--especially on the majority of days when the sun comes right back out. You literally watch the steam roll up off of everything.

[jkwing]

I lived in Flordia for 15 years, I found it to be very hot and humid, from around march thru November you could expect any where from a hig of 80 to 95 and of course the humidity was always on the hig side, so it felt even hotter. We had 3 months of cool wether Dec thru Feb then the highs could be anywhwere from 80 to 50 depending on if a cold front was coming thru.
Today I live in Columbia SC, whille I have lived in The southwest ( Elp Paso TX) I find Coluimbia to be one of the hottest places I have lived. Todays high is expected to be 97 with a heat index of 101, and tomorrow is supposed to be 101 with a heat index of 105, it is very hot here, and very humid. I would love to be in the hills where the weather runds around mid to upper 80"s during the day and 50's to 60's at night.
This place it to hot for me. Even Florida and Texas felt cooler than Columbia.

[goodbyehollywood]

Sadly, I don't appreciate the weather in Knoxville. I could go on and on about how it's sunny and and mild in L.A., and I can open the window and smell the salt in the air and feel the gentle breeze tickle my hair as the palm trees rhythmically sway, instead of bending in fury in yet another dark, lashing thunderstorm. But that would be supremely annoying... almost as annoying as transplants going on and on about how much better Knoxvillians have it than people back in the Northeast... or Florida... or the North Pole... or other places from which they came.

Who knew the weather could be so controversial?

[hiknapster]

Originally Posted by goodbyehollywood

Sadly, I don't appreciate the weather in Knoxville. I could go on and on about how it's sunny and and mild in L.A., and I can open the window and smell the salt in the air and feel the gentle breeze tickle my hair as the palm trees rhythmically sway, instead of bending in fury in yet another dark, lashing thunderstorm. But that would be supremely annoying... almost as annoying as transplants going on and on about how much better Knoxvillians have it than people back in the Northeast... or Florida... or the North Pole... or other places from which they came.

Who knew the weather could be so controversial?

Well, if I were in your position and had lived in LA, I probably wouldn't like the weather, either. So, like you said, it REALLY depends on where you are coming from. That's why I never respond about weather when the person is from Calif. At the most I tell them it might be too hot and humid for them and to check it out themselves.

Also, if you are coming DIRECTLY from the north you are probably going to think it's really hot and humid. You'll love the winters, though.

Oh, and I'll take those transplants (me, included) that gleefully tell everyone how great the weather is, as opposed to folks that say, "That's not the way we did it ___________. (insert place other than Knoxville)

It's funny, but I don't really hear that around here. In Florida, you would hear that a lot.

[meggylou]

I will be moving to Dandridge next week and have been laughing about the weather. I have visited for 9 days in 3 separate trips. I have literally seen 6 hours of sunlight, it has started to rain each trip as I cross the TN line. I have joked that I am moving to Seattle not Knoxville. That being said, I can't wait to get away from northern winters and get to the beautiful weather of the south.

[SunnyP]

Does it rain a lot there? From the weather maps it didn't look like there was a high amount of rain fall. I love the rain, so that would be a bonus for me.

[hiknapster]

Originally Posted by SunnyP

Does it rain a lot there? From the weather maps it didn't look like there was a high amount of rain fall. I love the rain, so that would be a bonus for me.

Depends. We were in a drought for the last few years. It was really dry and dusty. Yuck. Now, we have been having a lot of rain.

Now, (here's where GBH comes in and hits me over the head) in Massachusetts, when it rains, it rains for days, even weeks. When I say this folks I mean that you do not see the sun at all. For the past few days it has rained but the sun will come out in between almost all the time.

There is a vast difference between the two. I know this can make some people depressed but it is ever so much better than when you don't think you are ever going to see the sun again.

Most of the pictures in my mind of my hometown have a gray backdrop to them. Bleah.

And my water bill has been VERY nice, because I don't have to water my garden this often. Everything looks very lush this year, but it rained an awful lot during the winter in order for us to get out of the drought. That is a GOOD thing.