How Cold Is It Down South?

[KK]

Originally posted by: Fausto1

Originally posted by: glugglug
A/C season is 12 months, or at least it should be IMO 🙂

You are right. A/C is used much more because the humidity makes it too unbearable otherwise for those of us whose bodies would be sweating to cool us off. (since humidity prevents sweat evaporation, so your natural cooling system doesn't work). That same humidity makes it seem colder than it is if you are the type who does not sweat.

You big baby....it's not that bad. GA cools off sufficiently most nights to where you can be outside without passing out. Even my 8-months-pregnant wife thinks it's nice out tonight (we went out for a stroll and dinner).

This year down here has been alot cooler than previous years. I guess it's because we're finally getting some rain. As far as nights being cooler, yes, but the humidity is still high. Personnally I'd rather be back up in northwestern PA than down here, but that is just to get some snow. You can't make white snowmen down here, you end up with dirty snowmen.

KK

 

[Schadenfroh]

my thermometer showed 114 the other day, in MS

 

[Cyberian]

Originally posted by: Ornery
My wife is bitching about being cold again. She's been harping about moving south for twenty years now. At this moment, it's 74 degrees in here. Freezing, eh?

Do what I did years ago.
Get a bottle of her nail polish and make a red line on the thermostat at 80 degrees.
My wife never realized that she was cold until she walked by and looked at the thermostat.

 

[Triumph]

Originally posted by: Ornery
Northern Virginia gets pretty muggy in the summers, but nothing like down south. Winters probably dip into the 20's on a really cold day, usually in the 30's, and 4 inches is a snow storm.

Southwest Virginia is beautiful mountainous country, with Roanoke being pretty much the only major city, the rest is hickville. Summers are hot but not real humid, winters are in the 20's, and a snowstorm is over 6 inches.

You probably get lake effect snow up there, so that's no problem for you, right?

Hell I can deal with snow just fine. It's the heat of summer that screws me. I'd have to get some kind of air conditioned work if I moved down there, but my skills lie in the trades. Are the machine shops air conditioned there? Crap, I don't want to go back in a shop anyway... Ugh.

She's got an Uncle in Charlottesville, VA, who could probably hook us up with some work. We also fell in love with the Winston-Salem area of NC, which has similar weather. Bah, it's all moot. We'd be in A/C all the time and she'd still be complaining...

Charlottesville is much nicer than Nova, awesome mountains, but I've never spent time there in the summer. I can tell you that Winston-Salem will kill you on humidity as well. I spent the holiday weekend at my sister's in Greensboro (20 miles from W-S), and it was horrendous humidity. 5 minutes spent outside working on my car left me soaking. wet. Not just armpits, or back, or even groin. My shorts were wet down to the freaking knees! But Greensboro is an awesome place to live for a family, whereas W-S is basically dumpville.

A machine shop I've worked with in Roanoke was air conditioned...