I jumped rope outside in shorts today but it was a bit cool until I got that blood flowing. Everyone likes the cold Christmas days so I hope the forecast rings true.
It's definitely hard to get into the Christmas spirit when you're decorating your yard in shorts and a t-shirt and you have to come in after an hour to cool off. Same goes for Halloween. So I'm definitely glad to see that it won't be 85 degrees on Christmas day in Houston. Maybe I'll even get a chance to wear a pair of jeans. Or even a long sleeve shirt! As a native Houstonian, it's always funny when you go on vacation to any warm climate and you see a family at the pool or beach with just PALE WHITE skin. You think to yourself "yep....they're from up north" and this is probably the only chance they get to bask in the sun. So yeah, the grass is always green I suppose.
I went to Calgary for about 4 days for work once and only got to cruise around the mountains up around Banff. It was beautiful. I'm no expert on Italian food, but the people in Calgary we were visiting recommended an Italian restaurant up there that tasted pretty awesome to me. One thing they told me to do when they found I was from Texas was to escape by September or I'd regret it. lol. I went to Minnesota for Summer League games a few years ago and thought I was in Houston. I was thinking I'd land and finally be free of humidity and heat. Damn temps were in the mid 90's, it was humid, and I thought they lied to me and we never really took off. I got a cab ride to the hotel and the driver had a gallon jug of water because his AC wasn't working right, I think.
Also Calgary has Chinooks where the temp rises 50 degrees in the span of an afternoon, melting all the snow....
It seemed like every August we lived there, there was a particularly brutal week for heat and humidity.
Yeah, I had to check to make sure I wasn't hallucinating. It was back in 2005, July 14-20. The high temps those days were 91, 94, 96, 96, 79, 90, and 92. The humidity was around 70-85%. I expected to get off to 70-degree weather. For some reason, I never associate 90-degree temps with Minnesota.
An interesting fact i learned about living in Florida is that Tampa has never had a recorded 100 degree day and St. Petersburg has only had 1
That's somewhat believable after living in Houston. Houston doesn't really hit 100 that often because I guess it's close to the ocean. Florida is surrounded by water, so it makes it difficult. I don't think Miami has ever hit 100 degrees, either (or I heard that once). Most of these places more than make up for it with humidity/heat index, though. Off-topic a bit, I always knew Jacksonville was larger than Houston in terms of land area, but had no idea OKC was, too. I learned that the other day. lol.
They don’t call it the land of 10,000 lakes for nothing. And they joke that the state bird is the mosquito.
