BWR1953, you haven't had any storms around you have you? We had tornadoes within 2 miles of the house two weeks ago. Yikes!!!
Not lately. Had a tornado warning here a couple weeks ago as a big front moved through. Shortly after that we got down to our normal temps for this time of year. But it didn't last long. A single light frost one day and a hard freeze the next, then back on up the scale we went. Ugh. :blue:
In my life I've lived where it's frigidly cold with horrendous ice storms in some places and mountains of snow in others. Temps as low as -10F with 25MPH winds for example which could last for weeks. And the airport was closed for months at a time.
Been through several blizzards. :smow:
And I've also lived where it's blistering hot and dangerous to even be outside. Like 128F in the shade.
:flame:
When I came back from the hot place I went straight to the cold place. It was 115 when I left and -10 when I arrived, snowing sideways with 25MPH winds. That's a 125 degree temperature change (not to mention the wind chill) and I was just wearing my lightweight summer clothes! BRRRR!!
I chose this area because it's in between those two. Summer is humid for sure but not really much different than when I lived up north. And it got a lot hotter for a lot longer up north too. I remember once when we had high temps over 100 for eleven days in a row with very high humidity and "lows" in the upper-80s and no rain for 6 weeks that summer! Talk about a tinder box. Whew! Where I live now it's never gotten over 99F.
Normally we get frost and it cools off in October here with spring-like weather until mid-January when it would get cold for several weeks, then back to spring weather for a month or two before the summer warmup. The coldest I've experienced here was sitting in a tree stand in November when the temp was 14 degrees. I just wasn't dressed as warmly as I would have been while up north. Bone cold! :cold:
But it's been several years now with nothing like that at all. I miss the cooler weather. Dangit. :rant:
Quite frankly, if I could do it all over again, I'd probably end up in western NC, north GA or maybe eastern TN. Maybe. :noidea: :lol:
