Picked up my hunting license Saturday and thoughts of actually being cold outside started creeping in. Can't wait to build a fire and sitting close to stay warm instead of building one just to smoke the bugs away.

Fall has always been my favorite time of year, followed by Winter, Spring and then Summer. I hate the heat of Summer and am usually miserable during July and August.

The first day of Autumn is a great day at my house.

Funny, that wasn't the case growing up.

Goodbye July, seems like I hardly got to know ya.

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You don’t have to shovel heat…..

To quote Sinclair Lewis, “Winter is not a season, it's an occupation.”

However, there are parts of the world where that is not true. I've never in my life shoveled snow, never paid anyone to clear my driveway simply so I could back my car onto the street.

For us, August is just more of the same.....so is Sept. By the end of Oct. we enter into paradise.

A week from tomorrow we will have approx 7 mins less of daylight so there is that to look forward to and only gets better, faster from there.

GT, i feel for those of you in AZ. I really do.

South Florida summers are hot, but for me it's better than cold. Afterward our winters are nothing short of (again for me) sublime :-)

My favorite months of the year all end in "ber". Thanks to the oppressive humidity (and often at times very high heat coupled with it), July is my least favorite month weather-wise.

While heading to Lowe's yesterday I noticed that all of those nice little sycamore trees nearby had a wee bit of yellow in them. Autumn is on the way, slowly but surely.

Para, I’m with you, and on the topic of heat this is a first.

This year is the first year that I have really disliked the heat. It’s been hotter than normal. Usually we get highs of 103° and that’s about as hot as it gets. This year we have been breaking records. Half of July was unbearable. Days ranging between 105° and 114°. Here, that’s really hot. We are at 3500’ and usually stay 10°-15° cooler than Phoenix.

This last winter we endured, was brutally cold. Day after day of sunny, dry, icy cold. Every morning below freezing and many mornings down as low as 20°. While this isn’t cold compared to many other places, and it’s normal cold temps for here, it seems to have bothered me more than normal.

Yesterday a couple guys at work and I were chatting about the summers and winters here. Being from here and seeing the weather almost 50 years ago, the weather is about normal. It cycles and there will be warmer winter stretches, or cooler summers, hotter, you get the drift. For reference both these guys are 9 years my senior, one a retired cop with 30 years on the force from Irvington NJ, and the other a retired roughneck from the Texas oil fields, both 57. What we were discussing is how it has a greater impact as you age. When we were all young men, the heat didn’t bother us at all. Incredibly long shifts in the heat and humidity, no problem. Same with the cold. Now that we are older, not so much. They pointed out that it doesn’t get better as you age. The ability to cope with temperatures lower than freezing or warmer than a dry 90° or humid 80° seems to be weakened. When you get to the edges of that cold-hot scale, it seems those edges are pushed in a little more each year constricting our ability to deal with the elements.

This last winter, I noticed that a few of the knuckles on my hands started hurting. I used to pop my knuckles. Those knuckles won’t pop anymore because of extreme pain, and was only able to pop once it had been hot out for about a month. So the cold definitely has a huge effect on me now. Far worse than it used to be.

I have always hated the cold and would have chosen 115° over 35° all day, any day. Now I just want to live somewhere like Hawaii or San Diego, without all the craziness of a big city, and the costs associated with city life.

Down here, the same can be said for most months unfortunately. I can't wait 'til we can leave Fl. and go somewhere else where it has seasons and cool months, not days.

30 years in the hole, FL summers can be brutal or not as brutal, it's said you need to live here at least 2 summers to get acclimated... wonder how many transplants will stay post Summer.

However, once Fall Starts it's fantastic here until May, sometimes mid may, So October to May, molto bene, great weather...

I love fall also. But for me it’s a reminder that winter is just around the corner. Winter here is a miserable prick. Spring is hit or miss. Lately it’s just a cold rainy mess but at least I know summer is coming. I’m fine if it’s 95 degrees and humid. I have a pool to chill out in.

Might be buying a second home in Florida this month. Then I’ll have options.

I love summer here in TampaBay. It never, ever hits 100 in my little part of Paradise and it usually tops out in the mid-90s. We have air and we have a pool and most everywhere I go has air.

I get cold in the grocery store and it feels great when I step out into our (IMO) mild heat.

But, everything changes and today is August 1st, so in two months it's gonna be cooler, maybe in the 70s-80s. I can live with that, too. I have sweatshirts and light jackets.

But then, in January and February and sometimes in the first couple of weeks of March it gets quite cold-for me. 40s at night and maybe high 60s to low-mid 70s during the day on a few of the coldest days. 50s-70s the rest of the time. Once every few years it gets down in the 30s and I've seen it in the high 20s. Horrible!

I hate those cold times, but I've got a winter jacket, even some longies to keep me warm if I decide to go outside for a longer period of time. And, assuming He lets me stay here, I know April is coming.

I don't know why some of us love the warm weather and hate the cold while others love the winter and despise the summer. I reckon that's why there's chocolate and vanilla. I'm a vanilla feller myself. Never liked chocolate.

Bob

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But, everything changes and today is August 1st, so in two months it's gonna be cooler, maybe in the 70s-80s. I can live with that, too. I have sweatshirts and light jackets.
Bob

Always amazed me what folks in different parts of the country are used to. I don't even put a long sleeve shirt on until it's in the 40's.

I'm right there with you. I think I run about 15° warmer than everyone else and July and August about do me in. Nice thing here is we can be on the coast in an hour. Over the 4th of July weekend it was 100° at home so we headed over to the coast where it was 60°.

I moved to Florida back in 1999 from New Jersey. The heat in Florida is the same as in New Jersey it's just the summers are a lot longer in Florida.

I started my new job in Florida the first week in September. I was working outside in the evening and asked a co worker, when does it cooled down, because it was still in the 90s, he said November I said no when does it start to cool down during the evening, he said November. He was right.
The summer heat in Florida is the trade of not having to shovel snow in the winter.

Also for me June won't be missed for other reasons.

Two words that will make me happy: Cold Front!

RMD

100 today with low humidity and a slight breeze feels like paradise. I'll take dry heat any day.

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100 today with low humidity and a slight breeze feels like paradise. I'll take dry heat any day.

Came here to post similar. Car was registering 106 on the drive home from IAH, but I jumped in the convertible [no AC] to make a store run & wasn't uncomfortable. Hoping for a trend, even with 100+ on the 5 day forecast.