It's funny to "watch" the friendly jabbing about the weather between the north and the south. I'm from a neutral weather area (the mid Atlantic region). Winters sucked, hardly any snow and when it got cold enough to snow it was a dry weather pattern. Then there's the humidity, it makes the cold colder and the hot hotter.
Personally I can deal with the cold easier than the heat and I've worked outside my whole life in the weather. In ME I've never been as cold at 15* as in MD at 35*. I've explained this to several people, one is my brother from MD and the other is the guy that drilled my well in ME and while he was here drilling asked me "why in the he!! did I move to this cold place". I explained the humidity thing to him and I don't think he believed me.
My well guy goes to FL in the winter, a well drilling rig is dependent on water (and air pressure) for drilling and it's impractical to drill in consistent below freezing temperatures.
I had an issue with the well and when he returned in the spring with the rising temperatures, he mentioned that I was right. They had a cold winter in FL and he was miserable at 45* and never felt so cold.
My brother (to his surprise) agreed with my observations once I pointed it out as he comes up regularly all year long.
Although I've been living in ME for 18 years, it's slowly come to my attention that the extreme storms (flooding rains, hurricanes and tornadoes, etc) seem to be many many times more common in the south than here. You can acclimate to cold and snow, but I can't see ever getting used to your home washing or blowing away! The weather is actually very boring here in comparison.
Sorry for this long "derailing"
@screamin400 !
