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Cloudy is one description I would never choose for Florida, but I guess it depends on where you live, i.e., the weather in Naples is very different from Jacksonville, and I've lived in or near both cities.
I think the reason many people complain about the hot & humid summers is because of the monotony, at least that's what got to me after several years. I lived most of the past 20 years in Lee County. Watching the weather on TV, I noticed the summers weren't any hotter than in most northern cities, but the humidity and dew points stayed so high most nights that there was no relief. If you're here 365 days a year, then it becomes the same ol' same ol' after a while.
I guess if someone like yours truly doesn't want to be a snowbird (or cannot afford to maintain 2 homes) the decision to make when you retire is "Do I want to be cold and miserable for 3 to 4 months every year or do I want to be hot and miserable for 3 to 4 months every year?"
Live in Upper Michigan in the winter for mondo snow and Florida in the summer for the heat. If you wish to just have "hot rain," you should consider the Keys, as they rarely get the electrical storms that central FL gets.
Personally, I like my lightning, I've even been "kissed" by it.
The best place for hot rain with less lightning is Hong Kong.
I say clearly the best weather in the country is the California coast where you have steering control over the micro-climate you want to be in by driving short distances due to mountain passes
You can both ski in snow, be cool on the ocean in summer and winter, only thing you don't get in California is humidity...but in the redwood forest north of San Francisco you get high moisture content in cold form
Hot muggy without relief isn't my cup of tea. Hot muggy with rain breaking heat yes that's different....northern Michigan Great Lakes summer
based of of the accuweather averages for tangerang, with its hottest month at 88F with high humidity, Miami also has its hottest month in the upper 80s with high humidity, so they are the same
I wonder if climate change is making Florida weather hotter ? It's true we didn't even have much of a winter at all this year, while it seemed other states were having a brutally cold and snowy one.
I watched Bill Moyers on PBS last evening. Unfortunately, I only caught the last 15 minutes, but his guest was David Suzuki, a scientist, who was discussing global warming. I don't think most people understand that even a few degrees can dramatically change our entire way of life. Dr. Suzuki pointed out that our planet has gone through several extinctions, but this might be the first one caused by mankind. I just wish that climate change wasn't such a political debate, since it's very real and has nothing to do with Al Gore or whoever is in the spotlight or wants to sell books or run for office. It's a global problem.
Anyway, I believe that a lot of the extreme weather we've been seeing on the news is a result of global warming. The effects will be more devastating on poorer countries where people are already living without basic needs.
At least in Southwest Florida we can turn on the air conditioning, but wildfires and mudslides can't be stopped by lowering the thermostat.
The TWC link you cited is for Miami Beach. Official records are kept at KMIA, where the normal August high is indeed exactly 91F: National Weather Service Climate A good guess for downtown itself is somewhere in between the two...
KMIAs reading for Miamiintl. airport is very inaccurate of Miami, which Miami proper is more coastal than any area within the unincorporated Miami Intl. Airport. A vast majority of Miami proper is 5-10 miles from the coast whereas the airport is too inland. So, I think the link from weather.com is the more accurate reading. he was right the first time.
It has been abnormally dry in a few sections of Florida (specifically the SW and SE counties) but no severe drought conditions.
[url=http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/]United States Drought Monitor > Home[/url]
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