The days are getting noticably shorter

[dirt ditch]

It's too dark for sun glasses heading to work in the mornings now. I hate that we have 8 months of daylight savings time.

 

[Ken45101]

I love winter :cloud9: :thumbsup:

Then why are you in Florida? There is no "winter" in Florida.

Wife and I just talked about the shortening daylight already in August this evening watching the sunset. Even though we had a record high of 97degF today!

I'm not sure that we even have summer this year. Our high temp was 72 yesterday! Our high temp this month was 85 degrees! August in southern Ohio??? What happened to "Global Warming"? I want some!!!

I just hope that these abnormally low temps do not continue through winter!

 

[Gary Fowler]

I rather like the changing of the seasons. I spent a good number of years working close to and below the equator and having the same ole weather day after day is boring. When I married my Venezuelan wife and brought her kids to the states, their teacher was teaching seasons. When asked what the seasons were, they said WET and DRY. That was the only difference in winter and summer which even though they were 10 degrees above the equator, they equated wet season with winter and dry with summer and they corresponded opposite with our winter and summer.
Having seasons helps you remember when things happen also as in last summer or last winter. When you have no seasons to speak of, relating a happening to a period of time becomes difficult as one day is like the next.

The favorite place that the wife and I lived was in Alberta province Canada with mild summer temps and not a lot of snow in the winter but enough to keep the ground white and although the winter temps were brutally cold, they didn't affect you nearly as much as winter temps in Houston. We flew home from Calgary to Houston once for Christmas. It was -30F when we left Calgary and about 50F and light misty rain when we got to Houston. We had the same light jackets on that were comfortable for brief exposure in Calgary but we were shivering cold in Houston going for car to restaurant with the cold wet conditions.
With proper clothing, one can be comfortable in some really cold conditions but no clothing or lack thereof can make you cool and comfortable in 95/95 (95 temps and 95 % humidity) summer heat of the Southern USA.

 

[phiferpharm]

Then why are you in Florida? There is no "winter" in Florida.

I'm with RB, I love winter in Florida. Less bugs, longer work hours before you feel cooked, and I'm not cutting the grass every week.

 

[Country Geek]

With proper clothing, one can be comfortable in some really cold conditions but no clothing or lack thereof can make you cool and comfortable in 95/95 (95 temps and 95 % humidity) summer heat of the Southern USA.

95/95 would be a heat index in excess of 150 degrees but I can't tell for sure because it is off any of heat index charts I could find. It isn't something that actually happens in the western hemisphere.

95/60 (heat index of 113) or so is quite miserable enough and more like what we sometimes get in the Southeast.

Just for grins, the highest heat index ever recorded in the world was 172 at Dhahran, Saudi Arabia in 2003. The actual temperature was 108 and the relative humidity was 67%.

 

[turnkey4099]

I've been harvesting firewood by working a modified "hoot-owl" schedule. Out of the house by 5:30 and back by 10. We have been in a steady heatwave with temps in the mid-hi 90s for almost a month now with only a few short periods of "cooling" into the 80s. Temp outside at 1am last night was 88!!! It cooled to 77 by 3am.

I can almost see the difference day by day of how much latger the sun is coming up. 2weeks ago it was up when I left. Now it is just breaking the horizon when I arrive.

Harry K

 

[OldMcDonald]

Interesting post from Ken45101. At 39.9ºN we too are having a cooler than usual summer, but the annual mean temperature is still 2ºC high than the last 10years' average due to higher winter temperatures at the beginning of the year and warmer nights.

Harry, we are opposites. I am a late riser and late to have lunch. I then take a break and enjoy working into the twilight.

 

[Jstpssng]

I just stepped outside to see what the sky looked like... the first thing which I noticed was the absence of biting insects. (Unlike 3 hours ago while working in the garden.)

Then it was 'D***, better get inside. This T-shirt isn't warm enough!

 

[phiferpharm]

I just stepped outside to see what the sky looked like... the first thing which I noticed was the absence of biting insects. (Unlike 3 hours ago while working in the garden.)

Then it was 'D***, better get inside. This T-shirt isn't warm enough!

My last years in the military, I was tasked to do inspections at various places ranging from as far South as the U.S. Virgin Islands and all of the contiguous 48 Invariably, the NCO who set the schedule for me thought is was great game to book me into places like West Point, NY, Boston, and Maine in January and February. Then I would be in Texas, Alabama, and Mississippi in the summers.

I must have looked like a camouflaged Pillsbury Dough Boy with the amount of clothing I would wear on those northern visits. Still, Winter here is usually at worst a ground freeze to noon.