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I always have a jacket in the car and when I go to the grocery store I wear it. When I go to the mall, I usually tie it around my waist just in case I get cold.
Sounds good.
I was only playfully teasing, but I think I can understand where you are coming from.
I become acclimated to high heat and humidity in a matter of hours, and stay very acclimated for about 3-5 days. When we get real heat waves (heat indexes at 105+ F) I FREEZE when I come indoors and it's 72 F.
I spend a lot of time outside when it's hot, and a lot of time out in the sun if I'm not getting thirsty or sunburnt. So anytime after I've spent all day out in the heat, anything under 85 F feels cool, anything under 80 F is a little cold and anything under 70 F is just nuts.
No place in Hawaii has average highs at 80+ F all year.
Typical winter highs are 75-79 F and winter lows at 60-65 F at sea level.
Record lows are "un-paradise-like" with high 40's and low 50's recorded on most beaches.
(terrible if your hotel room does not have heating and you only packed shorts)
Most people find this pleasantly warm or pleasantly cool,
but I'd thought I'd give y'all a warning,
just in case you had travel plans.
(since it's a fun place and all )
By mid-summer, Hawaii does get Caribbean-like temps though
with highs from 84-90 F and lows from 72+ F.
Ah, the Caribbean. We're going there for Christmas. I can't wait!!!
Which part?
The Bahamas can be cold in winter too!
The only day I was there it was 63 F with 20 mph winds, gusts at 35 mph at 9:30 am.
The winds lightened to 10 mph by afternoon, gusts still at or above 20 though.
By 11 am it felt like 66-67 F.
By noon it still felt like 69 F.
Broke the 70 F mark by 12:30 pm.
Hovered between 71-73 F until 2:30 pm and it was back down below 70 F by 3:30 pm.
And sunset was still 2.5 hours later!
It must have been 65 F just at sunset,
even chillier immediately after sunset when it first got dark.
The water felt like 78 F,
while not by itself a particularly warm temp,
I found myself cooling down faster
being dry, standing in the sun and the nasty Bahama breeze
than I was staying under water snorkelling
without a wetsuit even after an hour.
*Apparently they normally get about 3 days a year that cold,
and the only day we were there was one of them.
** The problem with the Bahamas is not so much its latitude, but it's proximity to the U.S. mainland. When central and south Florida get frosty the cold kicks the wind up in the Caribbean. Bahamas are on the front lines, roughly 50-200 miles from Florida.
***A place like Jamaica on the other hand is not only far enough south, but far enough from the continental U.S. that when a wicked cold snap hit Florida, all that happened there was some strong wind, half a day of mostly cloudy skies, the high hit only 83 F () and the low plummetted to 68 F (ohh, the horror, we needed long pants for breakfast once or twice! ) on 3-4 nights out of 14 that we were there. Without that "cool-snap" daytime highs were probably 85-90 F and lows (sunrise temp) 70-73 F.
When I go to work, I strip off my long sleeve shirt, sweater, jacket, hat, and gloves...because there's no wind inside, and I get pretty warm through exertion.
The only day I was there it was 63 F with 20 mph winds, gusts at 35 mph at 9:30 am.
The winds lightened to 10 mph by afternoon, gusts still at or above 20 though.
By 11 am it felt like 66-67 F.
By noon it still felt like 69 F.
Broke the 70 F mark by 12:30 pm.
Hovered between 71-73 F until 2:30 pm and it was back down below 70 F by 3:30 pm.
And sunset was still 2.5 hours later!
It must have been 65 F just at sunset,
even chillier immediately after sunset when it first got dark.
The water felt like 78 F,
while not by itself a particularly warm temp,
I found myself cooling down faster
being dry, standing in the sun and the nasty Bahama breeze
than I was staying under water snorkelling
without a wetsuit even after an hour.
*Apparently they normally get about 3 days a year that cold,
and the only day we were there was one of them.
** The problem with the Bahamas is not so much its latitude, but it's proximity to the U.S. mainland. When central and south Florida get frosty the cold kicks the wind up in the Caribbean. Bahamas are on the front lines, roughly 50-200 miles from Florida.
***A place like Jamaica on the other hand is not only far enough south, but far enough from the continental U.S. that when a wicked cold snap hit Florida, all that happened there was some strong wind, half a day of mostly cloudy skies, the high hit only 83 F () and the low plummetted to 68 F (ohh, the horror, we needed long pants for breakfast once or twice! ) on 3-4 nights out of 14 that we were there. Without that "cool-snap" daytime highs were probably 85-90 F and lows (sunrise temp) 70-73 F.
Feel free to ask me more about the Caribbean.
Yup.....The Bahamas get all the cold snaps we get here in South FL, but with the difference of temps between the cold air mass and the warm ocean.....it kicks up the wind.....makes it feel frigid!!!
Haha yeah...I saw that 75-59.....haha.
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Note to those who find 79 F too chilly...
