> 0n (25 Oct 05) Barbara McNay wrote to George Pope...

 >> On (23 Oct 05) Barbara McNay wrote to Cindy Haglund...
 >>  BM> Driving through the business district of a city, with all
its bright
 >>  BM> flashing signs ...

 >> Not me -- I'm inside at night(too cold/dark for me)
 >> and comfortably
 >> reading (computer screen or a book)

 >  BM> A good part of the year it's warm at night, here, but I, too, prefer
 >  BM> to stay in at night.


 > 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.

And don't need to continually swat mosquitoes.

 > 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?

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

 > I notice how the difference between the daily high and
 > the nightly low
 > is usually about 20 degrees. This is fairly consistent
 > here.

 > But notice this (and it happens so rarely up north is
 > why I never
 > noticed!)- there's whopping huge difference between a
 > drop of twenty
 > degrees where it's a drop from 100 to 80 say and a
 > drop from 80 to 50.

 > To me anything below 60 is COLD. So cold is cold. lol.
 > 60's are cool,
 > 70's are warm... and then up from there. I do
 > understand though here
 > in Texas (given our past Summer)- it's not really HOT
 > until it's up
 > close to 100... Yup!!!

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

 > But up north that sort of hot is very rare so 'hot' is
 > in the mere
 > eighties to folks up north. To me it's PERFECT!

 > Ah. By the grace of good weather, go I. :)


 > 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?

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

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