</font><font color="blue" class="small">( From time to time, I like to tease you guys by slipping in a note about Florida weather when you're complaining about how it is Up North. But right now, I'm not happy with your weather, because it has spilled over. It has been COLD here for the last couple of days.
Now, let me hasten to say, it's certainly a different cold. It's currently 63 degrees at 10:00 AM, but the humidity is 72%, the dew point is 54, and it feels like the low 30's. And, that's really cold when you're used to high 70's! But, the real similarity is inside the house -- we're reluctant to fire up our expensive and inefficient electric hot air heat, so the temperature inside the house is 67 degrees at the moment and that, combined with the humidity, is probably colder than a lot of you guys Up North. I have on long pants and a sweat shirt for the first time this year, and I'm shivering.
Relief is on the way, however. They're promising 70's later today or tomorrow at the latest. C'mon down!
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Don -- We heat with wood, and though we have a Monitor heater in the far end of the house, the Yankee thriftiness in us prevents my wife and I from using it much. We have the thermostat set at 54, except from 6-7 am when it nudges us up to 62.
Every other December we visit the father-in-law down in Daytona Beach. Coming from single digits to the fifties it feels like a heat wave to us. Tamara and I walk happily on the deserted beach, wearing shorts and t-shirts, while all the Floridians stare at us in horror from the comfort of their heated homes. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif
Of course come June, when the mercury climbs into the sixties, we Vermonters are sweating our buns off while all the tourists comment about the chilly weather...so I guess it works both ways.
Pete
