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Amen to that. Yes, it gets hot here in Texas in the late summer (I don't generally even feel "hot" till it gets over about 95 degrees) but it's a great trade off for short, balmy winters. I love living someplace where ice and snow are actually newsworthy events rather than mundane daily happenings. And I also really love the long growing season because I love working in the yard - in the sunshine.
We get fall colors here in northeast Texas too - but we get them in late November. I'm fine with that! Personally I love having a Thanksgiving that includes fall colors rather than bare branches.
The photos I have attached are from last November at nearby Caddo Lake. Glad I wore warm clothes because though the sun was nice when we were not moving, it was cold out on that lake in the boat! By "cold," I mean in the 50s but with wind.
Great pics of caddo lake kathryn. I saw this from don henley, he moved back to texas from California and lives in dallas I believe but spends alot of time on caddo lake and helps preserve it. Those cypress trees coming out of the water are some of the most beautiful trees in the world. water cypress, southern live oak and the giant sequoias in northern california are my favorite trees,something just so haunting about canoeing through black water and spanish moss and a gorgeous cypress growing out of the water
The average body temperature of a human is 98.6.
Let's just say Phoenix AZ has a string of 110 degree days. That's just 12 degrees over body temperature.
Pick an east coast city with a string of days in the teens.
That's 80 degrees below body temperature.
Southwest...10 degrees over BT. East coast....80 degrees below BT.
Now for people who say 90 degrees is brutal.....your body temperature is 98.6.
I will take Texas, Florida, Louisiana, Arizona, and any other warm place over cold & gloom.
The average body temperature of a human is 98.6.
Let's just say Phoenix AZ has a string of 110 degree days. That's just 12 degrees over body temperature.
Pick an east coast city with a string of days in the teens.
That's 80 degrees below body temperature.
Southwest...10 degrees over BT. East coast....80 degrees below BT.
Now for people who say 90 degrees is brutal.....your body temperature is 98.6.
I will take Texas, Florida, Louisiana, Arizona, and any other warm place over cold & gloom.
A normal body temperature has nothing to do with how an outside your body temperature will feel. Most agree that an outside/inside temp around 72 is the most comfortable.
That said, I voted for Florida as being the hottest as during the summer the 90-95 temps combined with high dew points create an atmosphere that most can't handle for more than about 5 minutes. While some northern climes provide similar extremes during the winter, Florida offers this during the summer. No, thankyou.
Whatever you feel and experience is incorrect, it's just confusion as to what is truly comfortable. But in my city, the climate is always insanely ideal and perfect. I personally prefer such an utterly perfect & ideal climate myself, but I suppose some may prefer horribly uncomfortable, hot, frigid, arrid, wet, sultry, or gloomy climates. I wonder what it's like in such unimaginably horrendous conditions... ouch, just the thought alone hurts.
A normal body temperature has nothing to do with how an outside your body temperature will feel. Most agree that an outside/inside temp around 72 is the most comfortable.
That said, I voted for Florida as being the hottest as during the summer the 90-95 temps combined with high dew points create an atmosphere that most can't handle for more than about 5 minutes. While some northern climes provide similar extremes during the winter, Florida offers this during the summer. No, thankyou.
By ideal is mild overall, but still having distinct seasons.
I'm looking at Texas weather and heat index is still in the 100s, ten days from October. Pretty normal for these parts, or at least not unusual. Is it the hottest state overall?
Hottest is one thing, but one has to look at overall comfort factor through-out the course of a 24 hour period in the day.
Many stats do not capture how comfortable or how hot, or how cold is it at 8am, or Noon, or 3pm, or 8pm, or night time sleeping hours. Night time sleep hours temps matter to your heating and a/c bills, and overall comfort level while sleeping.
If your city was 100F for the high temp during the day. How many hours was it 90-100F? Did the day start at 75F, and quickly jump to the 80's during the daylight morning hours.Was it uncomfortably hot all night long? Was the dew point uncomfortable the whole 24hour period?
Hottest is one thing, but one has to look at overall comfort factor through-out the course of a 24 hour period in the day.
Many stats do not capture how comfortable or how hot, or how cold is it at 8am, or Noon, or 3pm, or 8pm, or night time sleeping hours. Night time sleep hours temps matter to your heating and a/c bills, and overall comfort level while sleeping.
If your city was 100F for the high temp during the day. How many hours was it 90-100F? Did the day start at 75F, and quickly jump to the 80's during the daylight morning hours.Was it uncomfortably hot all night long? Was the dew point uncomfortable the whole 24hour period?
Sure. It was a very broad question. I don't know about Florida, but I saw heat indexes of 97 in Dallas at 11 pm this summer.
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