looking for low humidity townes or cities (Charleston, Greenville: how much, new home)

[mgpiner]

retiring soon from calif. cant wait. but trying to find the right area. low humidity around 40% or less most of the year. can handle warm to hot, the cold and snow but cant deal with hot and stickey.help i hope you s. carolinas can help if a place does exist sure love the looks of your state:

[Marks]

Originally Posted by mgpiner

retiring soon from calif. cant wait. but trying to find the right area. low humidity around 40% or less most of the year. can handle warm to hot, the cold and snow but cant deal with hot and stickey.help i hope you s. carolinas can help if a place does exist sure love the looks of your state:

As a fellow Californian looking to SC for a possible new home state, greetings One thing to remember it's the south. Most of the south, esp. the deep south, has humidity it's just the way it is.

Some SC natives could help direct you to areas that might not be so bad, but I doubt you will get 40% and certently not in the summer.

Mark

[anonymous]

mgpiner, South Carolina is very humid - pretty much year round. Charleston's annual average humidity is 86%, Greenville's is 71%. The mountains in the far northwestern edge of the state might be bearable for you.

[Racelady88]

I live in Aiken, SC. The humidity here has been around 50% the last few weeks. It was in the 40% range before that. The people keep telling me that it is humid, but having just moved from Florida I don't find it to be so. I have not turned on the A/C in my car yet this summer.

[southernnative]

Evey, right now the humidity in Aiken in 70%. That part of South Carolina is very humid. Maybe it feels nice to you compared with Florida, but it's nevertheless humid.

[lovethecarolinas]

Originally Posted by mgpiner

retiring soon from calif. cant wait. but trying to find the right area. low humidity around 40% or less most of the year. can handle warm to hot, the cold and snow but cant deal with hot and stickey.help i hope you s. carolinas can help if a place does exist sure love the looks of your state:

I came from Southern CA and live in the Piedmonts (Tega Cay, SC)...low humidity...Nope...definitely not during the summer months.

[Racelady88]

I must need new equipment. TV weather people, too.

[lovethecarolinas]

Originally Posted by Evey

I must need new equipment. TV weather people, too.

Naw...your fine...I don't mind the humidity either....but it is definetly a change from CA. My M.I.L. came to visit us one year (of course she picked July to come out for the first time) and she is from Portland, OR (she was a wreck the whole time she was here). We finally got her to come back during the falls months (which she loved) but I know we will never ever see here again during the summer.

[Racelady88]

I just watched the noon news. Humidity was 52%. I love the weather here. Spring was breathtaking, and I can't wait for the leaves to change.

[bobizzy3]

I am from California and I am planning to a move to South Carolina. We have focused on Aiken because of the moderate weather patterns.They have four season,, long spring and fall and short summer and winter. I live on the Central Coast, and I have placed our weather info and Aikens weather info our home page so I see how the weather compares each day. You may want to do go to some of the weather sites and look at the historical weather patterns for the South Carolina. I have found that the humidity is lower than where we live but the summer temps are higher. Probably depends on what you can tolerate. But you are not going to find any place in the South that doesn't get warm and humid in the summer. How much can you tolerate??? What will you be doing? are you retired? or will you be working outside? all factors to consider. I am retired so I am not concerned about a couple of month of warm and humid weather.
Make sure you look at Aiken if you are coming from California,, I have found that it is going to be less of a cultural shock because of the demographics of this particular little town.. population 25k to 30k in the city. Look at the web site of Woodside Plantation or Mount Vintage Plantation.