Frazz by Jef Mallett for February 04, 2014

It is all about how you Acclimate to your region, after a few years new comers to Florida think 60 degrees is cold. While a ocean temp of 60 is for swimming in New England.

Summers in Florida, yuck.

Arizona – it’s a DRY heat.

I’m with you Doc!

I prefer to see my humidity on the ground, not sip it from the air; there have been too many mornings where it feels as if I don’t need my water bottle in central SC

I’ve grown up in dry heat and I’ve lived/currently living in wet heat. I will take dry heat over the wet heat any day. Especially if one can’t afford to run the A/C during the summer.

I too prefer winter and we’re having one this year. Other than the freezing rain they are predicting for here today, winter wins hands down for me.

You can always add more layers when it’s cold. You can’t take any more off once you’re buck naked. And as for air conditioners, they’re only able to reduce the temperature about 30 degrees. So when it’s 115 F, AC only brings the room down to 85. Admittedly, 30 degrees less is a significant improvement, but I find it hard to sleep at night in temperatures above 70 and in Phoenix AZ it can still be 100 at midnight.

I moved east of the Cascades to get out of the six-seven months of gray sky and rain. He’s got it right. It’s a lot more enjoyable to shovel away the occasional snow than it is to scrub away the moss from between your toes…

New England weather means you are shoveling snow and risking falling on the ice during the winter and swimming in your own sweat in the humid summer.I grew up in New England. I’ll take Texas where I can spend the winter outdoors speed walking without fear of ice and I can strap on ice packs in the early morning to go out for a walk in the summer. Bonus: the sun is up earlier in the summer so it’s easier to go for walks earlier – when it can be cooler as well.

I agree with DOSQueen.

Hey Frazz! Don’t you mean 100% humidity? Not 100% AND humid?

Snow is fun at first, annoying after awhile, but doesn’t stick around nearly as long as those huge bugs do down south! (Cold weather is the best reset button for critter growth.)

Of course, the midwest gives you the best of both worlds: cold, snowy winters AND hot, sticky summers!

I live in New England (Maine), and the summers are fantastic up here. I used to live in Florida. So I can speak of both, from personal experience. Very very rarely have I seen anything above 90 in Maine. And normally it’s in the 70s, or sometimes the 80s. At least for the past several years it has been. The winters can be a bit brutal, but I actually prefer a nice snow storm to a nice hurricane. I’ve been through several, in a few different states. And the hurricanes have been universally disastrous. I do NOT miss them, or that state, which, even when I left, was so overcrowded, I wasn’t even allowed to water my own lawn because there wasn’t enough water for everyone.

I figure there’s always more you can put on. But good taste, among other things, limits how much you can take off.

I’ve been in -30 degree air , (no wind) and it didn’t seem half as bad as +35 and damp. So little moisture the air, there isn’t much that touches the skin to transfer the coldness……I bet dry heat works the same way…

Well, we moved from Ann Arbor to SoCal seven years ago, and I don’t think I’m going back. :) My biggest problem here is knowing what the season is, because it’s 68-74 this afternoon, just like every other day all year long.

We moved from Florida to the PNW. Peoplr told us the winters would depress us. Really? Well, it’s true it’s gloomy and wet and miserable for at least three months most winters …

But you don’t have to SHOVEL IT! rotfl! I’m still here :-)

Night-Gaunt49: And the British Consulate pays tropical hardship bonus.

I’m in Phoenix, and right now is the perfect time of year here.

Humid, no, but 100 degrees dry heat is heaven!

Love it.

I agree with Frazz, but I have Scandinavian blood via Ireland.

Frazz, if you like Michigan winters and dealing with the brutal cold, snow and ice, more power to you, but you can leave the humidity and heat outside and enjoy the airconditioning just fine.

Funny I was born in Ohio, and now live in Tempe AZ, and for years said basically what Frazz just said, though I see it as a positive “at least you don’t have to shovel sunshine”

sadly