>> Sure is!!!! And I lvoe it like that. :) But yeah most
 >> of us stay in at
 >> night anyway so don't notice it so much except as to
 >> how we don't need
 >> to have the heat on.

 >  BM> And don't need to continually swat mosquitoes.

 >  True true...

 >> I was never so observant about the weather until we
 >> moved to FL and
 >> here. Now I notice it a lot. Why is that do you think?

 >  BM> Hurricane seasons, perhaps?  Also, as you get older, you continue to
 >  BM> be bombarded with messages about the weather:  its destructiveness,
 >  BM> its pleasures, the cost of moderating the effects of it in your house.

 >  Perhaps that but also up north you did'nt notice
 > twenty degree drops
 > much as it was most always cold to colder .. :)
 > (laughing)... HOT days
 > were / are the exception up north rather than the rule
 > (during the

Maybe it varies by location, but I remember times I went to summer school,
and at the end of the day's session, my skirt would make a ripping sound as
I got up from my chair, the fabric being stuck in the varnish (or whatever)
softened by the heat.

 > summer)...and mild by day is the usual case here but
 > not there during
 > winter. October has seen some cold snaps here but for
 > the most part
 > it's been fantastic...

 > Even now it's only in the seventies by day but as I've
 > gotten used to
 > it, as long ast he breeze/wind isn't nippy it feels
 > like warmer toasty
 > cozy eighty.

Hot take-your-sweater-off in the car, and chilly put-it-back-on-again
outside the car.

 > I've got a question. I've a daughter who will bundle
 > up in a
 > sweatshirt on days I'm in shorts and short sleeves, by
 > day (at this
 > time where it gets down to the sixties at night)- but
 > at night I'm in
 > a sweater and she's in her long jeans and tanktop...
 > It's weird. She's
 > hot when I'm cold and I'm cold when she's hot. hmm.

Probably has to do with a person's cycle, and activity level, among other
things.  Warm after exercising or eating hot foods, cold after sitting
quietly for a time.  I am almost invariably cold beginning in the early
evening, even when the temperature remains the same indoors, as I wind down
for the day.  I have to dress more warmly to remain comfortable.  When it
is cooler at night, I'm generally reasonably comfortable in the morning,
but get colder, as the temperature continues to decline outdoors until the
sun rises.

 > .............................

 >> until it's up
 >> close to 100... Yup!!!

 >  BM> I don't have a/c, so from my POV, at the peak of the hot season,
 >  BM> anything below 80 is cool, and 70 is downright cold.  As the weather
 >  BM> turns cooler, "hot" becomes correspondingly cooler.


 >  70 used to feel cold to me, but here the air is dryer
 > so it feels
 > warmer but only when the sun is shining and that
 > blasted wind from the
 > north isn't nipping at us.. It's so weird when the sun
 > feels warm but
 > the breeze is nippy.

 > How do you surivive 100 degrees daily with no a/c???

For starters, it's generally cooler indoors, even though still hot.  Then
there are fans, which I keep fixed, not oscillating, for a steady airflow.
And drink lots of water.  When I was a child, when it did occasionally
remain hot at night in Massachusetts, I would take my pajamas and rinse
them out under the hot water tap, wring them out, and put them on quickly
while they were still warm; I would then go to bed and sleep in cool (if
damp) comfort.  Sometimes, I would instead wash my hair just before I went
to bed, and my damp hair would keep my head cool.  Nowadays, if it's that
hot for me, I keep a spray bottle of water by the bed and mist myself, and
the fan does its work and cools me off.  I also keep a bottle of drinking
water by the bed, as sometimes I drink quite a lot of it during hot nights.

 > Now that's what
 > you tell when some wise guy  up north calls us wusses
 > for calling a
 > mere fifty : freezing.

 >> PS: Do you have a period of adjustment to endure? As
 >> when it's been in
 >> the eighties all week then wop! down to the sixties?

 >  BM> Yeah.  Actually, spring and fall both, I have to adjust.

 >  I don't mind it when the temp jumps up, it's when it
 > plunges down I
 > have a shock....  It's been very nice this week.. now
 > just what is
 > next.. I'm keeping track this year. I never did
 > before. November will
 > bring us sixties by day and forties by night. December

Here, we almost always have a freeze before Thanksgiving; the temperature
might then moderate until the winter.

 > will see about
 > the same but an encroaching fifties by day and lower
 > forties by
 > night.. Then of course somewhere between January and
 > the end of
 > February we may get one of thsoe horrible DROPS into
 > the twenties
 > (argh!) which some not from the north folks here
 > happily pray for the
 > white stuff which if we get any quickly melts to an
 > ice rink.

In addition to the spring and fall adjustments, I adjust again when the
very hot or very cold weather sets in.

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