Mild Summers - Places to consider?

[RiverBird]

Originally Posted by in_newengland

Mud season. LOL. You made me laugh. I guess I didn't realize that the expression is so prevalent. Where I live mud season comes in March. Ick. March is the month of torture, when it's getting warmer, the days are longer, you're worn down from the cold of winter but spring is still a long way off.

You try to go for a walk, thinking it's nice out but it's just slices of ice and pools of mud. Then you come home and track mud into the house. Still, I'll take mud season before I'll take (shudder) January.

I beg to differ! I love March...Dr. Suess's birthday (March 2), National Be Heard Day (7th), Get Over It Day (9th), Johnny Appleseed Day (11th), Napping Day (12th), Ides of March (15th), St.Paddy's Day (17th), Forgive Mom and Dad Day (18th), National Carmel Chocolate Day (19th), first day of Spring (20th), As Young as You Feel Day (22nd), Houdini's birthday (24th), Weed Appreciation Day and National Black Forest Cake Day (28th)...

Root Canal Awareness Week: 25-31, American Chocolate Week: 19-25, Act Happy Week: 19-25...National Adopt a Guinea Pig Month, Humorists Are Artists Month, International Expect Success Month, National Clean Up Your IRS Act Month, National Umbrella Month, Optimism Month, the Mad Hatter (March Hare) month...

New England...kite flying season, slickers and rubber boots, fresh winds, dramatic skies, beautiful light, promise of spring, reddening branches, maybe forsythia...What's not to like about March?

As for mild summers, this is maybe 1/2 to 3/4 of the summer in New England. A quarter or more of summer days are very hot and humid. Summer breezes on the shore are lovely. It does not necessarily get cooler the more north in NE you go in summer.

[Sunday1]

Originally Posted by loveautumn

I've been searching this myself for quite awhile now...very difficult to find. You Other than SoCal, it gets pretty hot in the summer just about everywhere, except Pacific Northwest. Western NY State...summers there are quite mild, they do have humidity but not extreme. But the winters are pretty extreme temps, esp for a California person.

Yep - and with mild summers come harsh winters (in many places) and the heat will probably cost you far more than the $250 you're spending per month in the summer for a/c (and the winters last longer). It's all about trade-offs. Pac NW is a good idea, but avoid eastern Washington -- plenty hot in the summer. Are you inland in southern Cal?

[willow wind]

To Cosmic Wizard- we were talking about mud season In New England. Last winter, no snow cover, hence no real mud season. Need deep snow and freeze to have a New England mud season in March. Ground never froze solid for months on end so whatever rain came, was able to sink in all winter.

Winter in general of course is averaged. Mud has its own life.