[PRCo] Re: Weather.........................Anybody Out There?
Fred Schneider
fschnei at supernet.com
Tue Aug 9 14:03:57 EDT 2005
I was in Saint Augustine in October about 1998 ... I was having cardiac type symptoms from the combination of heat and humidity. When I was 17, I just sweated. When I pushed 60, I sat down to sweat.
The funny thing remains that low-humidity and high heat still has no affect, but I prefer the north country. (Sweden, Finland, Minnesota) fws
Mark McGuire wrote:
> Try living in the humidity capital here in Florida. Literally feels
> like stepping into an oven when one goes from an air-conditioned
> building to the outdoors. Here in Jacksonville(North Florida) it
> usually stays hot from April through September and sometimes October.
> Occasionally we'll get a very nice spring. Winter gets cold here, not
> by northern standards though. I remember one winter where it got
> down to 11 degrees one evening.
> After going through the unbearable summers, the cooler winter weather is a break indeed. My blood has thinned out now having lived here for 23+ years. I could never live in the winters of the north.
> To get back on topic, I have been wanting to trace the PRCo interurban ROWs in the winter when one can see alot more. I'd love to
> do West Penn sometime also. When is the height of snow season in the
> Pittsburgh area? Maybe I'll try and come up in December if the good
> old USPS approves my leave.
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