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I used to live in a warmer sub-tropical climate, and any cool spell was over-dramatised by the locals, and not even that cold.
Winter would never actually "set in" so to speak.
The only advantage of this is that you don't have to live through cold, damp and drizzly weather for weeks on end, which can be a feature of cool temperate climates in this part of the world.
The main difference I noticed however, was that once it turned warm, it stayed warm, there was no turning back.
The sun is much more intense, to the point that you cannot stay outdoors and do any activities for any length of time, after about mid-morning.
There were really only two seasons in the sub-tropics, with the hot one much longer than the cooler one.
In more temperate climates there is a normal cycle whereby hot weather is continually "broken up" by cooler changes.
This simply does not occur in the sub-tropics.
Unless you love unrelenting heat and humidity, temperate climates -at or below about 31-32 degrees South latitude here, are much more livable.
Which is why the trend to move to warmer climates by baby-boomers and others seeking the sun, is so intriguing.
I used to live in a warmer sub-tropical climate, and any cool spell was over-dramatised by the locals, and not even that cold.
Winter would never actually "set in" so to speak.
The only advantage of this is that you don't have to live through cold, damp and drizzly weather for weeks on end, which can be a feature of cool temperate climates in this part of the world.
The main difference I noticed however, was that once it turned warm, it stayed warm, there was no turning back.
The sun is much more intense, to the point that you cannot stay outdoors and do any activities for any length of time, after about mid-morning.
There were really only two seasons in the sub-tropics, with the hot one much longer than the cooler one.
In more temperate climates there is a normal cycle whereby hot weather is continually "broken up" by cooler changes.
This simply does not occur in the sub-tropics.
Unless you love unrelenting heat and humidity, temperate climates -at or below about 31-32 degrees South latitude here, are much more livable.
Which is why the trend to move to warmer climates by baby-boomers and others seeking the sun, is so intriguing.
People move to warmer climates because they don't mind the heat.
And about the cold spells being over-dramatized, I recently posted a thread about why cold spells in warm climates are worse than they may appear to an outsider.
One of the biggest gimmicks of a warmer climate is that you are moving there for a warmer winter and a more "even" year round temperature, and you don't pay for it with hotter summers.
You pay for it, BIG TIME, as I found out near the NSW-Qld border.
The summers were horrendously hot and humid.
And yet locals stated that you only had about 4-6 weeks of uncomfortable hot weather.
Were they living in the same place?
Perhaps the biggest difference is the Night Time temperatures, which are consistently above 20 degrees Celsius (70 degrees Farenheit) for months on end.
How is that sleeping weather?
Hence I am one of the few that has "bucked the trend" of moving to warmer climates, and headed back to where I came from.
And I now sleep comfortably at night!
They are way over-dramatized! I've been to beaches when its 70 and people are wearing sweat suits and winter coats! Please, give me a break!
but then again, that is certainly not beach weather, especially if the water is cold to boot, which in all likelyhood would be if the air temp is only 70.
One of the biggest gimmicks of a warmer climate is that you are moving there for a warmer winter and a more "even" year round temperature, and you don't pay for it with hotter summers.
You pay for it, BIG TIME, as I found out near the NSW-Qld border.
The summers were horrendously hot and humid.
And yet locals stated that you only had about 4-6 weeks of uncomfortable hot weather.
Were they living in the same place?
Perhaps the biggest difference is the Night Time temperatures, which are consistently above 20 degrees Celsius (70 degrees Farenheit) for months on end.
How is that sleeping weather?
Hence I am one of the few that has "bucked the trend" of moving to warmer climates, and headed back to where I came from.
And I now sleep comfortably at night!
That's a bit of an overexaggeration. On the coast it isn't *that* hot, muggy yes but not "horrendously humid". That would be Darwin. Nights average around 20-21C on the coast, are rarely higher than 25C and 95% of the time seem to be in the 18-22C range. Many afternoons have seabreezes aswell on the coast. Inland it would get hotter ofcourse, but again nothing catastrophic, infact many inland stations in NE NSW east of the divide average around 30-32C and are actually slightly cooler at night than the coast.
Ballina, on the coast, averages 28C/21C in summer,
Casino, a bit more inland, averages 31C/19C in summer...
One of the biggest gimmicks of a warmer climate is that you are moving there for a warmer winter and a more "even" year round temperature, and you don't pay for it with hotter summers.
You pay for it, BIG TIME, as I found out near the NSW-Qld border.
The summers were horrendously hot and humid.
That's why the tropics are better than the sub tropics- when its 28-35 degrees in North Queensland it can 35-42 down south. I've never seen greater than 35 where we live.
Temperate is nice, but depends where- Tasmania for instance has no warm weather. The locals think its hot if it reaches 23 degrees. They have heat stroke at 30 degrees.
Yes but that's no surprise considering 23C is 2C above Hobart's average January max
Exactly why we left!
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