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You lived here for like 27 years and think 85 is hot?
I personally think the 4 seasons thing is overrated. Why is freezing winters such a desirable attribute? Is a barren grey and white landscape for a few months really required for an ideal climate?
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You lived here for like 27 years and think 85 is hot?
I personally think the 4 seasons thing is overrated. Why is freezing winters such a desirable attribute? Is a barren grey and white landscape for a few months really required for an ideal climate?
The Army stuck me in Kansas. Definitely 4 seasons there. You can have it.
You lived here for like 27 years and think 85 is hot?
I personally think the 4 seasons thing is overrated. Why is freezing winters such a desirable attribute? Is a barren grey and white landscape for a few months really required for an ideal climate?
Yeah anything over 85 is hot to me. I also lived in Florida for 20 years, Atlanta for a couple and Spartanburg for 4. It's all hot. Oregon............so nice......... :-)
In the original post the OP defined "anywhere from 50-90 degrees" as enjoyable weather. Everybody feels the heat differently but I stick by my original response that July and August might be considered "super miserable" and the rest of the year ranges from tolerable to downright nice. Yes, we can have some freezing weather in the winter and it can get hotter than 90 outside of July/August but it only happens every so often and rarely lasts long.
It is getting hotter too. One of the local newscasters was celebrating the fact that we had the hottest July ever this year. I was wondering what kind of idiot gets excited about that.
It is getting hotter too. One of the local newscasters was celebrating the fact that we had the hottest July ever this year. I was wondering what kind of idiot gets excited about that.
We had a stalled high pressure heat bubble sitting on top this place for a couple weeks in July.
I have no idea why weather people get excited over breaking temp records other than their job is probably boring if it's just a perfect day everyday. Or they could be from up north where heat is some sort of cherished attribute. Every place I've ever lived weather people consider 95 degrees and no rain for days on end as "a nice day". I learned to stay indoors during "nice days".
The last few days have actually pretty comfortable around sunset.
Forget Charleston if you mean any of the above quoted from your post. Hot & humid approx. 4 months a year. The other 8 months are heaven!
Maybe I can handle 4 bad months if it means the other 8 are heaven! 😉 I have been tracking Charleston's humidity vs. mine (in North Texas) and they are pretty comparable. When the 4 bad months are over, does the humidity continue to be as issue?
Maybe I can handle 4 bad months if it means the other 8 are heaven! 😉 I have been tracking Charleston's humidity vs. mine (in North Texas) and they are pretty comparable. When the 4 bad months are over, does the humidity continue to be as issue?
Not that I recall. Once fall hits, it feels like fall. At around sunset last night, humidity got down to 51% here. It was a great time to be out.
Keep in mind it's the mugginess that you most likely don't like. Humidity is just one function of mugginess. Places like Washington are far more humid than Miami, but the colder temps means "muggy" ends up feeling "cold and damp". Dew points are also a factor. It could be humid out but still comfortable if the temperature far exceeds the dew point. The 100 degree temps everybody was complaining about back in July was actually caused by a high pressure system that actually made our typical Charleston humid summer feel more like Arizona's dry heat.
I guess the overall point is tracking humidity alone doesn't tell the whole story. The overall consensus around here seems to be it's comfortable to most people here in the fall.
The pleasant months will be extended by a few weeks the closer you live to the coast because the additional humidity and sea breezes helps prevent radical temperature swings.
I had a whole house HUMIDIFIER because in Dec, Jan, Feb humidities can go below 25 and even as low as 15 in winter. Now I have a small Vicks humidifier that I use for those months. Otherwise your skin will be miserable and your sinuses can even bleed.
Fall is the best season here imo. Also dew point is the real indicator of comfort, not humidity.
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