Bostondevil wrote:
Yeah? Wimps? You ever lived through a summer in Durham? Typical day, 98 degree Farenheit which is what? 25 Celsius? and 98% humidity with a thunderstorm at 5 o'clock. Sitting in the 'front room' looking out towards the street? The humidity in the air is so heavy it refracts the light, makes the street look like a river of tar.
I hate Neil Young too!
The wimp comment was a joke.
But yeah, we get temperatures that high in the summer all the time. As I said in my other post in this thread, from late June to early September our temps are 80+ degrees. And we can get ridiculous humidity too. We also get bad thunderstorms and a haze from the heat. That's normal for us so we can easily handle it. I've got an old friend who now lives in Greenville South Carolina and she says the summers there aren't much worse than what we would get here when our temps were at their hottest for the year (I'm assuming the climate in Greenville would be similar to that in Durham). But we can also handle cold weather, and I mean real cold not 40-50 degree cold.
ETA: According to Wikipedia, the part of Ontario in which I live has a humid continental climate and falls within the hot summer subtype. Our weather is the same as both the Mid-Atlantic states (Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Washington D.C., Virginia and West Virginia) and the Midwestern United States (Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin). I’m betting that the climate in the southernmost of those states is akin to that in North Carolina.
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