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I'm from Central NC but we've had many of the same issues as the mountains.
What I hope doesn't happen is Summer leading right into Winter. One complaint about NC weather is that it doesn't always have very long Springs and Falls.
It's more like hard summer, then mixed summer/winter weather with a few really pleasant days sprinkled in that aren't raining, then hard winter (admittedly not Minnesota hard but not mild like the Deeper south), and then mixed winter/summer with a few really pleasant days sprinkled in that aren't raining, then back to hard summer.
I'm from Central NC but we've had many of the same issues as the mountains.
What I hope doesn't happen is Summer leading right into Winter. One complaint about NC weather is that it doesn't always have very long Springs and Falls.
It's more like hard summer, then mixed summer/winter weather with a few really pleasant days sprinkled in that aren't raining, then hard winter (admittedly not Minnesota hard but not mild like the Deeper south), and then mixed winter/summer with a few really pleasant days sprinkled in that aren't raining, then back to hard summer.
Can't rep you again so soon, but I do agree with much of what you posted.
I moved here from Ohio as a teen. My first birthday, which is in December, it was 70 degrees. OMG, it was incredible after having a Michigan and then Ohio upbringing. Love those warm December days mixed in, they make the winter so much more bearable. The winter months are much shorter down in the Triangle and I really do miss them. I am trying not to just bolt back, LOL.
I'm so glad I moved to the mts. from Charleston...humidity saps the life out of you...
just another week or so, cooler weather
That's why I hate the heat so much. It's so energy sapping. Maybe that's not true for everyone, but it truly is for me. And I consider myself a fairly high energy person.
I know you are glad you moved from Charleston. We visited there one Memorial Day weekend and never went back. Crowded, hot, and absolutely horrid, soupy humidity there that whole weekend.
Oh well. Supposed to get back up into the 90's here today. Maybe it will cool off by November.
I agree. Just dead stillness, no one outside, the droning on of everyone's air conditioning units the only sound.
Consider moving to a higher elevation spot in the mountains. I live at 4400 feet. Nobody up here uses their A/C, it's really not warm enough even on the hottest days down below to need it. This was our third summer up here and we've never turned on the A/C, I pull the blinds on the sunny side of the house in the mornings and use a window fan if it gets really "warm", which so far has only been 81 degrees in the house. When it does get warm like that, sitting on the porch in the shade is cool enough. Instead of the drone of everyone's A/C, you just hear the birds singing.
Throughout the warm seasons, the A/C is set at 77 Day time and 76 while sleeping, why be uncomfortable, YMMV, due to pollen windows are always kept closed.
It's all relative. Compared to south Louisiana, it's not that humid.
True!!! Same for Houston Texas (where I moved from) dew point was 80 yesterday It's way warmer than I would like, I LOVE cold weather, but we still have the mountains, I'll take it!!
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It's way warmer than I would like, I LOVE cold weather, but we still have the mountains, I'll take it!!
