Looking to get out of Florida
This is my first summer being retired. As I get older my tolerance for heat, humidity and rain is getting less and less. Being outside is no fun from June to Oct. As a result, I'm either going to get ...
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Atlee,
We live in West Michigan on the shores of Lake Michigan and have for over 75 years. We don't have 6 months of winter as winter is only 3 months long. Seldom get snow on the ground before before mid December and then it melts or have cold winter weather either as the now warm very deep summer heated lake water in Lake Michigan give its heat upward as heat always rises and the prevailing westerly winds blows that heat over us until well into January. The Great Lakes shipping season doesn't end until about the end of January and begins again in early April. Shuts down for winter for an average of 2-1/2 months yearly.
By April 1st it's only light jacket or sweatshirt temps on averge. Very different than the true full 6 months on average of putridly hot and humid weather with so much rain which makes it sauna like for at least 6 months in Florida.
We'll gladly take 3 months of colder that we can dress for to be outside very comfortably and having lots of fun than 6 months of staying cooped up inside in blowing A/C because it's so hot and humid and rains and it's not wise to take off all your clothes and still being miserable when it's hot 6 months in Florida outside and then being escorted to the iron bar hotel and have to pay the steep bill the man provides when you leave that luxurious resort!
Here, April 1st averages in the 50's and halfway thru December averages about 50 also. Here,the 3 hottest months in summer has an averge high temp of 78-80 for daytime highs and 58-62 for night time lows. How could it be more perfect than that?
We live in West Michigan on the shores of Lake Michigan and have for over 75 years. We don't have 6 months of winter as winter is only 3 months long. Seldom get snow on the ground before before mid December and then it melts or have cold winter weather either as the now warm very deep summer heated lake water in Lake Michigan give its heat upward as heat always rises and the prevailing westerly winds blows that heat over us until well into January. The Great Lakes shipping season doesn't end until about the end of January and begins again in early April. Shuts down for winter for an average of 2-1/2 months yearly.
By April 1st it's only light jacket or sweatshirt temps on averge. Very different than the true full 6 months on average of putridly hot and humid weather with so much rain which makes it sauna like for at least 6 months in Florida.
We'll gladly take 3 months of colder that we can dress for to be outside very comfortably and having lots of fun than 6 months of staying cooped up inside in blowing A/C because it's so hot and humid and rains and it's not wise to take off all your clothes and still being miserable when it's hot 6 months in Florida outside and then being escorted to the iron bar hotel and have to pay the steep bill the man provides when you leave that luxurious resort!
Here, April 1st averages in the 50's and halfway thru December averages about 50 also. Here,the 3 hottest months in summer has an averge high temp of 78-80 for daytime highs and 58-62 for night time lows. How could it be more perfect than that?
