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Location: The place where the road & the sky collide
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I hear you south...well, Connecticut is a much different world than South Jersey is .. I think we started from different places.
Actually, I have very distant memories of the summers that you speak of. I'm a Michigan native.
I spent most of my life in South Jersey & summers are usually ghastly. In the tristate area (Philadelphia & PA suburbs, South Jersey, & northern Delaware), as you make your rounds to shop & get into conversations with strangers during June, July, & August, the weather is usually referred to as ghastly or beastly & each year several people during that time will refer to the region as the armpit of the nation (concerning summer weather). The humidity there is usually compared to Savannah without the sea breezes. Every summer the Philly TV stations give a daily death count from the heat. My family acclimated to it quickly because there was no A/C in most homes & even a lot of public places back then.
I tracked the weather here, because I wanted no ugly surprises. So far, so good.
Actually, I have very distant memories of the summers that you speak of. I'm a Michigan native.
I spent most of my life in South Jersey & summers are usually ghastly. In the tristate area (Philadelphia & PA suburbs, South Jersey, & northern Delaware), as you make your rounds to shop & get into conversations with strangers during June, July, & August, the weather is usually referred to as ghastly or beastly & each year several people during that time will refer to the region as the armpit of the nation (concerning summer weather). The humidity there is usually compared to Savannah without the sea breezes. Every summer the Philly TV stations give a daily death count from the heat. My family acclimated to it quickly because there was no A/C in most homes & even a lot of public places back then.
I tracked the weather here, because I wanted no ugly surprises. So far, so good.
Savannah in August is worse, much worse..its gross./...haha...ahh..we will just keep battling
Yup, they get it from the coroners &/or hospitals in the area. They report the heat-related deaths in the area every night during the news.
It's a summer tradition.
I was surprised that it's not done here.
That is not as much from excessive heat as NO AIR CONDITIONING.... if we didnt have air conditioning here there would be worse body counts . One thing the south does well is air conditioning I truly give you guys credit for that...everywhere is prepared..during heat waves up north...not true.
Location: The place where the road & the sky collide
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That is not as much from excessive heat as NO AIR CONDITIONING.... if we didnt have air conditioning here there would be worse body counts . One thing the south does well is air conditioning I truly give you guys credit for that...everywhere is prepared..during heat waves up north...not true.
LOL, there are many homes built before the Civil War. Sometimes it's no A/C, sometimes it's broken A/C. At least one or two elderly individuals turn on a fan & forget to turn on the window A/C or open a window &, for all intents & purposes, convection-cook themselves each year. Many times it's people who have to work outdoors in the heat.
That is not as much from excessive heat as NO AIR CONDITIONING.... if we didnt have air conditioning here there would be worse body counts . One thing the south does well is air conditioning I truly give you guys credit for that...everywhere is prepared..during heat waves up north...not true.
It's true... so many of my friends and family in downstate NY to this day don't have central ac. They typically will have a window unit in the bedroom - if anything. It's not uncommon to see box fans in windows all around the house... and we're talking 30 to 40 year old houses here. Windows and insulation are nowhere near up to par with today. Insanely inefficient. AC costs a fortune.
The heat is also completely out of whack... 110+ in Minneapolis, LI was touching 100 a couple of weeks ago. You can say what you want about it being insane in the Charlotte metro, but I wouldn't want to be on the Atlantic coast going into this hurricane season. It could get really scary this Fall.
Location: The place where the road & the sky collide
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Savannah in August is worse, much worse..its gross./...haha...ahh..we will just keep battling
Well, I've never been to Savannah, but have worked with quite a few meteorologists & that's where I got the analogy. Remember the Bermuda high spends a lot of the summer in that area, plus the proximity to so much water. I've yet to experience anything here that can hold a candle to that area when the Bermuda high comes in & just sits there for weeks at a time.
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