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I love the best of both worlds, but overall I favor Mobile for the frequent thunderstorms, it makes for a nice lush subtropical landscape, whereas Austin is leaning more towards almost a semi arid landscape, so I voted for Mobile, it was a very close race though
Mobile's summers are simply perfect imo. Hot, humid, and sunny with consistent convective precipitation in the form of thunderstorms. Austin's certainly doable for me, although it's a bit more variable than I'd like, it seems as if there's a constant battle between humid/moist and dry/drought.
The one thing that's scary about Mobile is that it takes direct hits from tropical cyclones. I live on the coast as well and I've experienced hurricanes, I know what storm surge and high winds can do, but I've never had to deal with direct hit from a category 3 or higher storm.
Mobile.
Austin (and much of Texas) is more humid than people give it credit for AND gets plenty hot. Plus summer is just getting started in late July; their hottest time of year is in August typically whereas Mobile I think has slightly passed peak by then.
And I'm not a fan of drought prone areas during that time of year.
Mobile is maybe a little too wet, but I'd definitely prefer it's summers to Austin's having only 5 days of precip on average in July and August.
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Originally Posted by Infamous92
The one thing that's scary about Mobile is that it takes direct hits from tropical cyclones. I live on the coast as well and I've experienced hurricanes, I know what storm surge and high winds can do, but I've never had to deal with direct hit from a category 3 or higher storm.
The good thing about Mobile is that much of the city has decent elevation, so storm surge wouldn't be too huge of an issue.
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