How hard is it to get throught the summer, really? (Miami: crime, chapel)

[ferret111]

I've lived here my whole life and I love the heat. I guess it's a little different because I've never known anything else, but I'm okay with that. I don't use the air conditioning in the car; I drive with the windows down. I also walk the mile or so to work five or six days a week and I love it. This may not sound all that unusual, but keep in mind that I don't wear the typical "Florida wear," either. I wear long pants and shoes twelve months out of the year. And I don't think twice about wearing flannel in July.

I know that my preferences are unusual and not everyone can stand the heat, but it's frustrating when someone willingly moves here and then complains about how hot it gets.

[Spring Hillian]

Frustrating? It's insane.

It seems that some people were kidnapped, tossed into a truck and let out in Florida. They've been here since, waiting for the same truck to take them home.

Originally Posted by ferret111

I've lived here my whole life and I love the heat. I guess it's a little different because I've never known anything else, but I'm okay with that. I don't use the air conditioning in the car; I drive with the windows down. I also walk the mile or so to work five or six days a week and I love it. This may not sound all that unusual, but keep in mind that I don't wear the typical "Florida wear," either. I wear long pants and shoes twelve months out of the year. And I don't think twice about wearing flannel in July.

I know that my preferences are unusual and not everyone can stand the heat, but it's frustrating when someone willingly moves here and then complains about how hot it gets.

[LKJ1988]

Originally Posted by tilli

What are you talking about no rain for weeks? In Tampa? When it is crazy hot like that in the summer it rains every afternoon, you can practically set your watch by it!

Not true when i lived in Danashores by the Tampa Airport. About 8 out of ten times T-storms would always go around us. Now i live on the gulf in west Pasco and it's even worse. For the last 20 years we have been stuck in a west wind flow the reverse of our so called southeast wind flow that brings late afternoon T- storms from the southeast. Maybe 4 to 8 days a summer we have our so called normal southeast windflow.

Now you people in Brandon and a line north to south of Brandon always get more rain than i do on the gulf. With a west flow the T storms die off just before they reach the beach, then build about 15 miles inland and then move east away from where i live. So people in east Tampa have a much better chance of getting rain with a west windflow and even a southeast windflow.

I'm not saying i never get rain on the gulf coast in the summer, anytime we have a kink in the upper levels that gives lift then i have a very good chance of getting rain with a west wind flow. I have kept weather records for over 30 years and have proof of my rainfall amounts when i lived in Danashores and on the gulfcoast.

[babor72]

You know...The weather here is like a roller coaster all the time. It's hot then it's cold. In June or July you can typically expect almost anything. It could be rainy and near chilly one day and the next just blistering hot with high humidity(80-90%) or even breezy and 70 ish. just 2 weeks ago I was riding my motorcycle home @ lunchtime. Go back 4 weeks however and it was hard frozen. 1 week prior,60 deg. f...The problem with that is that you can never get used to the weather. So it always seems unbareable. When you are in a warmer climate that is more stable(even if it's hotter) you will get acclimated to this. Almost anyone can stand the heat or the cold...It's just what you are used to. 2-3 weeks of the summer and you won't even notice it......much......

[graphix]

Originally Posted by Mike Peterson

Brilliant, people that enjoy the weather that Florida has had for hundreds of years annoy someone who complains about how hot it is in Florida. Just brilliant.

You laughed out loud? Can you find me even a 2 hour stretch in your area or the other posters area where those criteria are all going on at the same time? No you can't because as usual the complainers exaggerate the weather conditions.

You misunderstand me, I'm agreeing with you. The weather does change that much in a 2 hour span here.

Also, to me, it feels like it's been getting hotter recently. But I was kidding about being annoyed. I'm sure I annoy people who are freezing during our "winters" when they see me in shorts and a t-shirt still wishing for it to be 10 degrees cooler.

[graphix]

Originally Posted by Spring Hillian

The weather? And the bugs, and the residents, and the crime, the
roads, the housing, you name it, they complain about it.


Makes me wonder what drove them insane enough to come here in the first place, but no body every answers that question.

Probably because it's just as bad elsewhere, and when they move here, they realize that every place has something wrong with it.

[thethinktank]

Originally Posted by graphix

Probably because it's just as bad elsewhere, and when they move here, they realize that every place has something wrong with it.

Yeah man, must be some kind of weird coincidence how Florida has so much domestic immigration and travel. Hopefully someone will get the word out...

I was hoping to leave the whiny "you're all wrong!" haters behind in the north, but you have exemplified your own point. Any chance you can share another super cool story about how you can wear, like, less clothing than people normally do when its cold out? That'd be awesome!

[Spring Hillian]

Thats a reasonable explanation. They had to be unhappy where they were to come here.

Originally Posted by graphix

Probably because it's just as bad elsewhere, and when they move here, they realize that every place has something wrong with it.

[tilli]

Originally Posted by CHASLS2

Not true when i lived in Danashores by the Tampa Airport. About 8 out of ten times T-storms would always go around us.

I recently moved to south Tampa from the Tampa airport area where I lived and worked for almost 10 years, it poured there reliably in the summer, every afternoon. Like everywhere else I've lived in coastal Florida.

[tilli]

Originally Posted by babor72

Almost anyone can stand the heat or the cold...It's just what you are used to. 2-3 weeks of the summer and you won't even notice it......much......

Have you actually tested this hypothesis of yours? The transplants I have known who came from temperate climates took years to adjust at a minimum and others haven't managed to truly acclimate after decades. I was a young child when we moved to Florida, can barely even remember anywhere else, and it honestly took about 15 years for me to begin to tolerate the constant heat and humidity without feeling like I was going to just drop dead at any second. I still don't enjoy it as some do, but I am sometimes able to play a trick of the mind where I pretend like it's a sauna and that I WANT to be sweating out all my fluids with no evaporative return.