mosquitoes...the VA state bird
This will be our 5th year going to VA Beach for vacation. It's great and we always have such a good time. It's a great family experience. The skeeters are always bad...particularly last year. There we...
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The skeeters in VA were one of the main reasons I left NASA to go back to Boeing. We have very few skeeters in this part of Washington. So the winters are kinda crappy, our local airport is often saying "800 broken, 1500 overcast, vis 0.7 miles, 40F, rain and fog" between mid November and early March. It can get on your nerves a bit, but it's not that much different from where we were born and raised in NW England. At least it doesn't stay below freezing for weeks on end, and the only place I see negative Fahrenheit numbers is in the kitchen freezer! 25F is about as low as it gets overnight. Daytime highs below freezing are rare.
The summers are gorgeous, highs stay around 75F with humidity about 20%. Overnight drops into the mid 60s and we get several weeks of clear and sunny. None of the dull, overcast, 95F and 90% humidity we got in VA. No afternoon thunderstorms either. It can rain for 24 hour here and we get maybe 0.5".
The only negative, if you're a salt-water swimmer, is that the water is really cold. At our local beach, in knee-high water, it's probably 50F. Your legs go numb in 10 minutes.
The summers are gorgeous, highs stay around 75F with humidity about 20%. Overnight drops into the mid 60s and we get several weeks of clear and sunny. None of the dull, overcast, 95F and 90% humidity we got in VA. No afternoon thunderstorms either. It can rain for 24 hour here and we get maybe 0.5".
The only negative, if you're a salt-water swimmer, is that the water is really cold. At our local beach, in knee-high water, it's probably 50F. Your legs go numb in 10 minutes.
