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Is 21 miles west of Charleston "interior" South Carolina? It sure isn't considered that in SC! We are in what is known as Lowcountry and are a large part of the Charleston metro area. (Actually, our town got its name from long before a/c, when rich southerners started coming here in the hot months to cool off a bit!) Summerville is no more interior than Westchester Cty is upstate. Columbia is almost 100 miles inland from here.
20 miles..100 miles ...its all hot in summer In fact you guys are probably a lot more humid than Columbia..no sense battling..as long your happy down there, that's all that counts.
Utica is an armpit and I have no idea why people live here.
The sun has been out 17 days since November 12th and its snowed roughly 80 days, and rained the rest.
Who the **** lives in this climate? Even Seattle and Portland have had over 45 days of sunshine this winter and mostly 40-60s.
Upstate NY is hands down the worst weather region of the country. This place is so depressing its not even funny, and I don't know how people here aren't blowing their brains out over this weather. Its just so bad its sad and pathetic. It really is.
Its been snowing and cold since November 12th. Next Thursday makes it 4 consecutive months. Thats 4.
What do people do that keeps them here for winter? Eat tomato pie and halfmoons the rest of the year? Im being serious.
We had a flock of robins on our lawn two weeks ago. Perhaps they'll land up there sometime? Maybe?
Every year is some type of record cold. Last year was just as cold as this year, and longer. The year before that was a Halloween blizzard. So, I don't really see the difference between this year and any other, just different types of misery.
Lets not portray Upstate NY as even having mild winters or being short. They're always cold and consistently cloudy. -20 sucks but so does -5. Rochester gets 58 full sunny days a year. 58 dude. That's not much.
The difference between 85 in Rochester and 90 in Charlotte is not going to break it for me. Yes, its friggin hot in the summer down South, but no one is staying inside for 5 months in the summer.
You like Rochester and all its cold weather. That's fine. As I've said, there's only 2 things I dislike about Upstate- the weather and the taxes/government. Everything else I like. The people, the landscape, the towns, everything. But please call a spade a spade- Rochester and Upstate weather in general sucks.
We have brutally cold weather this winter in NYC. This was the coldest February on record here.
So this was a particularly horrible winter.
With that said, of course NY (even NYC) has cold winters than the South. Longer too.
In NYC we had out first cold blast in Nov. Well it's March and it's still snowing. Obviously Northeastern states are more likely to get blizzards.
Of course, Southern states have much longer hot summers. The South is more more likely to be tornados and hurricanes than the Northeast.
But I know from your previous threads Vintage you like to declare South Carolina utopia. Everything is fantastic about the South.
When it snows in the South, it's gone the next day.
That is decidedly NOT true! Even though it's 70 degrees today, we (NC) still have snow on the ground from a snowfall last week. Granted, it's in shady areas, but the temps were below freezing for a couple of days after that snow, turning it to hard ice.
You can't make generalizations about what the weather in "the South" is like as if it is homogenous.
Here's another fact- while its CURRENTLY snowing and 27* in Rochester as I type this, its sunny and 70 in Charlotte. So, its twice as warm, its sunny, and you could wear a t-shirt and jeans today.
The high temps in NC this week are NOT typical. We are supposed to get more snow tomorrow night. There are always some freakishly mild days in late winter, but it doesn't mean that 70 is anywhere NEAR the normal high for this area. We could still get a big snowfall (big for us) in March, we often do.
And, I don't want to be the one to point out that 70F is NOT "twice as warm" as 27F, and I don't mean that 70 is not 2x27. 0 F is NOT absolute zero so 10 degrees F is not "Twice as hot" as 5 degrees F, 80 isn't "twice as hot" as 40, etc.
In Celsius, 27 F is negative and 70 F is positive; how can one be "twice as hot" ? It's just a fluke of the Fahrenheit temperature scale (or any temp scale besides Kelvin).
The only temperature scale that will tell you if something is "twice as hot" is the Kelvin scale, that measures from absolute zero. 70 F is 294 Kelvin, so it is "twice as hot" as somewhere that is 197 Kelvin or approximately -104 F.
I'm from the NY and love the snow - but only about once a year. After that the cold just got to me. I see the news images and wonder if its really that bad.
So is it worth it to live in those conditions or is it all blown up by the media and really not so bad?
I have lived 46 years in Buffalo ( came from near NYC). This year and 1977 are the only years that were this bad, snow wise. A few years have been very cold, a very few have had ice I would have preferred not to see.
Yes, the media overhypes it - it gets more viewers and ratings.
BUT: Planning for the worst::::If you live here, you have the common sense to have a bag with clotehs, blankets and some energy bars in the car, along with snow shovel and brushes. You drive with a tank at LEAST half full. You learn what nasty weather looks like by sight ( looking at clouds off the lakes and by radar) and if you think it is really bad, just don't go out when it isn't worth it. You keep the pantry stocked and cook on a gas stove ( you can light the top if power is out). We had our house panel wired to turn off street power and run only furnace and sump pump and fridge on generator if needed -- after the "October Surprise" ( trees down all over, no electric for a week).
However, if you are from NYC area? You close for very little snow, or rain for that matter. The electric rails of the LIRR and subway can't take it. People panic easier [ maybe because so many many are in apartments, not homes?]. I remember when I was in HS in the 1960s, a storm shut everything down for a full week -- I think they call it the Mayor Lindsay storm.
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If you want to live in Buffalo, you learn to deal with the weather.
The high temps in NC this week are NOT typical. We are supposed to get more snow tomorrow night. There are always some freakishly mild days in late winter, but it doesn't mean that 70 is anywhere NEAR the normal high for this area. We could still get a big snowfall (big for us) in March, we often do.
And, I don't want to be the one to point out that 70F is NOT "twice as warm" as 27F, and I don't mean that 70 is not 2x27. 0 F is NOT absolute zero so 10 degrees F is not "Twice as hot" as 5 degrees F, 80 isn't "twice as hot" as 40, etc.
In Celsius, 27 F is negative and 70 F is positive; how can one be "twice as hot" ? It's just a fluke of the Fahrenheit temperature scale (or any temp scale besides Kelvin).
The only temperature scale that will tell you if something is "twice as hot" is the Kelvin scale, that measures from absolute zero. 70 F is 294 Kelvin, so it is "twice as hot" as somewhere that is 197 Kelvin or approximately -104 F.
Is this Sheldon Cooper?
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In fact you guys are probably a lot more humid than Columbia..no sense battling..as long your happy down there, that's all that counts.
