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I didn't say I was envious of most people...just that guy who doesn't have to!
Ok, just didnt want you to get the impression that you dont have to run your AC in the summer. It can get cooler at night, and I suppose in the really high elevations, etc. But I never was unable to run the AC in the summer. And definitely the heat in the winter!
Slimin, I'm already seeing daffodils popping up as well as crocuses. Spring weather will arrive before you know it. As for humidity, I grew up in Northern Illinois. I'll take Asheville weather any day. People complain about the humidity here but I honestly don't notice it. We rarely run our a/c in the summer
That's good to know. I'm sure it will be an adjustment for me just the same though. California isn't humid at all. I'm looking forward to the thunderstorms and greenery though, CA is rather brown and dry in the summer and I haven't seen a thunderstorm (and it was a weak one at that) in a good several years. What month do things start to turn green again?
[QUOTE , I'm already seeing daffodils popping up as well as crocuses. [/quote]
Ha! Good luck to them after Wednesday's 0 degree low. Maybe some ice from tonight will protect them...
Ok, just didnt want you to get the impression that you dont have to run your AC in the summer. It can get cooler at night, and I suppose in the really high elevations, etc. But I never was unable to run the AC in the summer. And definitely the heat in the winter!
I stayed in black mountain for about 6 weeks when I was smaller in a summer camp (Black Mountain) and the cabin we stayed in had no AC. It got warm but was pretty comfortable all the way around.
However, being subject to these horrible FL summers for the past 12 years, I'd be curious to see if I'd have to run it at all...
I'm from FL (native) and we ran the AC in the summer for sure! We like it at 72/73 in our house, so we definitely ran the AC! Unless you can live with 78/79 inside... but we cannot!
We live 7+ months a year at ~5,000 ft, above Waynesville, for the past 13 years...it is not a 'hot' clime at our altitude.
But, we run A/C several nights a year in 'summer'; the humidity can build all day and even on a less than hot night, a bit of zoned A/C makes for going to sleep much more comfortable. The past few very rainy summers have not helped, regardless of one's altitude, imo.
Some post here about never or seldom using A/C, but those posters are either much more tolerant of higher humidity and 'feels like' temps than we are, or they just jetted in from a tropical clime.
Everyone has their own comfort zones; we run air at our Mtn home when we feel like it. The cost, in the scheme of things, is like loose change lost under the couch cushions.
As for cold, we get our share, esp during the 5 years we lived full time here at nearly a mile high. 9 below was the coldest I ever saw on our deck, though it can be damn cold in April, May, July, Sept, Oct, November, etc., at altitude.
The weather is 'different' and more severe, and maybe more extreme all over the US, than when I was a kid 50-60 years ago, in my recollection. Or maybe it is just the constant media yelling at us in tabloid fashion...
GL, mD
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