Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom I like living here in Atlanta. We may get the heat and humidity ( not to the extent of Florida ), but at least we have mountains and lots of lakes nearby. Weekends you can run off to the mountains in North Georgia/ Western North Carolina where the temps are a good 20 degrees cooler.
Originally Posted By MPierce Houston can definetly be a miserable place to live in the summer months. Heck it can sometimes be miserable the rest of the year also. The only real relief you can get is to head to the beach on the week-ends. I had some friends come back from a June trip to WDW several years back. They said the heat, and humitity in Orlando made even this place seem pleasant. There's absolutely no way I would ever attempt a trip there from early May to late October. Not even if it were free.
Originally Posted By A Happy Haunt <<Weekends you can run off to the mountains in North Georgia/ Western North Carolina where the temps are a good 20 degrees cooler.>> I lived by Lake Lanier for a few years..It's like a different world from Hotlanta!!
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom Yes I believe that, LOL. The mountains in North Georgia truely are more like New England weather.
Originally Posted By carribean queen Current temp in Boston 37degrees, I'd love the Florida, Georgia or Texas heat right now!
Originally Posted By vbdad55 a little earlier this year than usual - Janury-February here and 13 degrees in the morning will be a nice day
Originally Posted By carribean queen I knew it was windy there I didn't realize that cold already. I do feel your pain I'm right off the Atlantic, and when that wind plows(which it constantly does) it rips off layers of skin
Originally Posted By vbdad55 normally our worst weather reserved for Jan and Feb - but when a cold front plunges downfrom the Arctic - it's look out here. that's the bizarre thing -- we get to -10 / -20 regularly those two months yet we also see 100's inJuly-Aug -- not boring to be sure. Blizzards and tornados....we run the gamut
Originally Posted By CarolinaDisneyDad I can't speak for the whole South but I have to defend my part of it. You won't find a better climate than the mountains of North Carolina. When I was growing up we didn't use our air conditioning in summer. We had an attic fan which we turned on at night to pull in the cool night air and that would last us through the next day. There are only 2 poisonous snakes, Copperheads and Timber Rattlers and they make nice hatbands and belts. No dangerous animals in the water. We have ski slopes in winter and are only 4 to 5 hours from the beach and 10 hours from Disney. We have multiple wilderness areas for camping and fly fishing. Numerous rivers for white water rafting or tubing (remember no poisonous water snakes). Wonerful wildlife like deer, elk, beaver, flying squirrels, owls, hawks, and a mating pair of Bald Eagles on Lake James. Sure there are some unseemly people but you will find them anywhere. If you haven't been to the NC mountains, give it a try. You will like what you find.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros "I lived by Lake Lanier for a few years..." Lovely place. We spent a long weekend there shortly after we moved to NC (I think it was the weekend that Princess Diana died from what I recall). It was definatley a world of its own, completely seperate from the surroundings. And I'm always reminded of it whenever I watch Last of the Mohicans. : ) "You won't find a better climate than the mountains of North Carolina." I definatley agree with that. We were a little farther east, so we weren't really in the mountains, but it was rarely (maybe one or two days in 10 years) unbearable. There was just enough of each season that it was enjoyable, but not so much that the cold or heat became opressive. I'm not a spring person at all, but seeing the entire city in bloom (including most of the trees) was something that I've never seen anywhere else. And you simply can't beat an NC fall...anywhere. It's my favorite season ever, and my least favorite part of living in southern California. We just don't get the amazing colors of an NC fall, and they certainly don't last as long (colors are usually on trees for 4-6 weeks) either. Simply outstanding.
Originally Posted By MPierce Hearing all of that makes me wish my distant relatives had never left NC.
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom Our mountain place is at an altitude of 4,000 ft. Its always cool up there and at least a good 20-30 degrees cooler than back home in metro Atlanta. The hottest I have even seen it get up at the mountain house was 84 degrees F. You can easily get by with a fan in a window. Now down at the base of the mountain its a different story. In fact one of the best Georgia State Parks is on a mountain top in North Georgia and is very popular for camping. Its so neat being up there because you are above the cloud line. <a href="http://www.gastateparks.org/info/blackrock/" target="_blank">http://www.gastateparks.org/in...ackrock/</a> <a href="http://www.southernhighroads.org/uploads/featuredattractions/id56/black_rock_overlook.jpg_2619" target="_blank">http://www.southernhighroads.o...jpg_2619</a> <a href="http://www.getoutdoorsgeorgia.org/images/parks/mainImages/BlackRock.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.getoutdoorsgeorgia....Rock.jpg</a>
Originally Posted By A Happy Haunt <<Hearing all of that makes me wish my distant relatives had never left NC>> My Grandmother went to High School in The Bronz..I'm glad she left. Apart from the Zoo, it's a scary place & it's the home of those...YANKEES!!
Originally Posted By MPierce The Red Sox, Yankee's rivalry. The only other comparable hatred is the Cubs, and Cardinals.
Originally Posted By A Happy Haunt I went to a BOS/NYY game in late July..poor sportsmanship all around!! The biggest cheer of the game came when A Rod got hit with a pitch..
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 >Its only really bad from about 11am-6pm for about a month and a half.< <<I've never lived in Florida, but based on my travels there I have to disagree with you a bit. I find that the humidity and heat are very unpleasant from around May through around mid-September or so. And even when the sun goes down, the humidity never does, and you might have a day with highs in the high 90's and lows in the high 80's. I try my best to NOT visit Florida from May through September.>> I share your disagreement, Danny. As a Floridian (well kinda since we moved from Mass. when I was nine), I can tell anyone that summers are wretched and miserable. I think you're stretching things a bit when you include May as it usually cools down at night that month and isn't usually rainy ... even the first week or two of June can be bearable (notice I said can) ... but once mid-June hits it is wrtechedly hot, humid, sticky and icky until October (usually the middle to latter stages too). I've only been to one place with summers as bad and that was this past summer in Beijing and Hong Kong ... although it did cool down a bit after rain in the former and I was so wowed by the latter that it didn't matter to me. But I honestly don't understand why anyone would plan a WDW (or any FLA) vacation in summer and early fall. Just bad, bad weather!
