Wish you were here right now?

[rockhillmanor]

I'm sure glad I am!

How about you? :W


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[sonicsix]

I prefer warm places myself. Currently in Alabama and it is mild here, but can get below freezing. Enjoy your stay in the Sunshine state!



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[rockhillmanor]

mike-s wrote:
Hot and humid, no thanks. You can always put on more clothes to keep warm, there's a limit to how many you can take off.

Yup in "summer" that is the case. Worse as you go further south.

But it matters WHERE you stay in Florida for the winter. It's a very long state!

I finally found a real sweet spot here, as many others have and that is Central, north central Florida. In the winter months there is zip zero humidity. Where I am at there are also zip and zero mosquitoes during any of the seasons!

And albeit the born and raised Floridians in this area are sporting boots and winter coats during this time.....I find the days of 70+ and the nights in the 60's and 50's no humidity pure heaven. :C

Yes occasionally we have a couple of nights during winter of freezing temps at night, but to a Northerner the joke of that is, is the temps don't drop when the sun goes down like up north.

The temps only drop for 'one or two hours right before sunrise'! That blew me away the first time I realized that. And then the sun comes up and its back to the 70's 80's! THAT sure doesn't happen up North. :W

[mike-s]

Hot and humid, no thanks. You can always put on more clothes to keep warm, there's a limit to how many you can take off.

[fj12ryder]

Yeah, I could handle Arizona in the winter.

[Us_out_West]

This was the last time with snow...2007.



Ever since it's been SW Arizona.



Hopefully there will be many more winters like that.

[slickest1]

We just went through over a week of -20 deg Celcius wind chill and over a foot of snow on the south coast of BC. (Not that bad considering what others have)
It doesn't normally get that cold here.
We can't go south this year so shoveling it will be. I keep thinking Global Warming, Global Warming, Global Warming!!
To all in the south enjoying the warm weather ENJOY and best of the season.

[rockhillmanor]

Deb and Ed M wrote:
OK - I'll admit that we are "Fair Weather Floridians" - this picture pretty much sums it up;

:B

[GoPackGo]

Who says we don't have seasons in Florida - We have Pre-summer, Summer, and finally Post-summer !

I do miss the snow - nothing more beautiful then a fresh snowfall. But I don't miss the below zero temperatures, and I especially don't miss the endless grey, dreary days that seemed to start in November and didn't go away until sometime near the end of March.

Winter lasts way too long up north. There is a lot to be said for 80 degree temps, green grass and palm trees and munching shrimp and sipping umbrella drinks at the local tiki hut while watching the sun set out over the Gulf.

[Deb_and_Ed_M]

OK - I'll admit that we are "Fair Weather Floridians" - this picture pretty much sums it up;


The moment it gets too "bite-y" down here with alligators, snakes, sharks - and all the scary stuff in the water goes into full bloom, we RUN back to Michigan...LOL!

[dodge_guy]

rockhillmanor wrote:

Deb and Ed M wrote:
I'll be waiting for the rocket launch tomorrow - sweating in the 84-degree heat. My kids have been sending pictures of the beautiful snow in Michigan - I DO miss it - but not enough to go back and shovel it....

X2

If you buy a house down here they offer free lifetime snow removal!


This is an ACTUAL sign just north of Leesburg going into the Villages! Made me laugh so hard when I saw it and just had to pull over and take a picture of it! :B

It`s not free! its costing you $89,900 for it! costs me $6 a year in gas for the $300 snowblower! besides when its all said and done your still in Florida. yes it is beautiful. but I`de rather just visit. :B

[rockhillmanor]

Deb and Ed M wrote:
I'll be waiting for the rocket launch tomorrow - sweating in the 84-degree heat. My kids have been sending pictures of the beautiful snow in Michigan - I DO miss it - but not enough to go back and shovel it....

X2

If you buy a house down here they offer free lifetime snow removal!


This is an ACTUAL sign just north of Leesburg going into the Villages! Made me laugh so hard when I saw it and just had to pull over and take a picture of it! :B

[wa8yxm]

Well Mr. I am here... I'm in that yellow patch just above you.. Now the weather here, though a bat damp today... Well, let me tell you the temp range I'm seeing on my forcast Fox is ... LOVERLY as the song goes.

[John_Joey]

darsben1 wrote:

2gypsies wrote:
Terrific that you are returning to this forum after 3 months! The last we heard from you was you preparing for the Florida hurricane. Many of us on the forum were concerned. Hope you didn't have any disastorous issues!

:B

That's pretty funny. I do remember those post now that you brought that up. That 'ol Wisconsin boy was just a tad bit nervous.

[rockhillmanor]

I am from Wisconsin so I HAVE seen both sides of what winter can be like as are all the other so-called seasons.

Summer lasts all of about 3 months. Run to put the piers up on Memorial Day only to have it be too cold to boat or picnic for most of May. Run your boat in circles for a few months and then Labor Day the piers get pulled back out.:(

Here in Florida, yes the summer is way hot. Starts like clockwork on May 1st and runs to September 1st and then just quits.

I LOVE the winter months down here "ALL 8 MONTHS" of it! The weather is just beyond perfect for all 8 months.

3 months of nice weather in Wisconsin versus 8 months of real nice weather in Florida was a no-brainer for me. I get 5 extra months every year added to my life of comfortable living. :C