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re: The "worst weather of the year" - up North vs down South
Posted on 7/29/25 at 7:50 am to Chucktown_Badger
Posted on 7/29/25 at 7:50 am to Chucktown_Badger
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tl;dr I'll take the worst weather of the South over the worst weather up North
I'm "up north" and we have a temperate climate classification but its prone to maritime influences. Temps between 25 and 75 generally. Winters can have a couple of cold air masses move in but its generally pleasant.
Places like Seattle are similar, slightly warmer.
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Posted on 7/29/25 at 7:54 am to Chucktown_Badger
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The snow is pretty for 3 minutes and then it turns into the gray slop and when it gets really cold that slop freezes into gray and black ice mounds that you trip over because people don't clear their sidewalks and the plows don't really come through. You can never enjoy the snow up there. Temps in the 20s and 30s with outdoor activities like skiing, sledding, fishing, etc...sure, that's awesome. But I can get to that if I want to on with a 3-4 hour flight.
Yeah, large cities arent very pretty following a snowfall after the first road scraping.. Imagine how people who live in Sapporo Japan deal with it...
Posted on 7/29/25 at 7:59 am to RogerTheShrubber
the reason I was born and raised in NOLA is bc my Dad was from Portland Maine. He got his arse down South and never returned. Hated the cold. Now, I live in The Pass. Yes, it is hot as balls now. But, the occasional breeze off the Gulf makes it work for me. I've lived in NY half the time the past 4 years and I much prefer the MS Gulf Coast.
Posted on 7/29/25 at 8:02 am to RogerTheShrubber
I lived in Misawa, Japan for a few years. One of the winters we got 252 inches of snow. Never got bad cold just enough to get major snow. That one broke the record at the time.
OKC has had great weather this spring/summer. Lots of rain and no 100’s so far.
Saw this video of a tornado and its wild! Filmer was too close for my taste but great footage. It just kept grinding. Some of the most intense action you will see
OKC has had great weather this spring/summer. Lots of rain and no 100’s so far.
Saw this video of a tornado and its wild! Filmer was too close for my taste but great footage. It just kept grinding. Some of the most intense action you will see
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Posted on 7/29/25 at 8:03 am to Chucktown_Badger
I’m in the burbs of Chicago. The cold is fun from about Thanksgiving to Jan 3rd. As soon as school and work starts again in the new year you’re ready for Spring. The winter up here sucks and it being dark at 4:30 sucks too.
Posted on 7/29/25 at 8:09 am to Chucktown_Badger
Chicago is still a great town. Sad to see it being disparaged on here.
Posted on 7/29/25 at 8:09 am to The Goat
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the reason I was born and raised in NOLA is bc my Dad was from Portland Maine. He got his arse down South and never returned.
Thats how my dad was about the cold. Stationed in Korea for two years and after he left he said he never wanted to feel cold again.
Posted on 7/29/25 at 8:10 am to GRTiger
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Early humans, legends.
It wasn't that long ago most people in Louisiana didn't have AC. It's hard to imagine sleeping like that.
Posted on 7/29/25 at 8:12 am to Funky Tide 8
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There is something nostalgic about summer evenings in the south that I really love.
Summer evenings and nights are just like a treat(some nights). Your body is beat down by heat all day but even thought its still warm...it feels so nice at night
Posted on 7/29/25 at 8:15 am to The Pirate King
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It wasn't that long ago most people in Louisiana didn't have AC. It's hard to imagine sleeping like that.
We were without until I was about 13 or so. The house did have a big attic fan that cooled it off quickly, though.
Posted on 7/29/25 at 8:18 am to Chucktown_Badger
Stop pimping Charleston! 
Charleston isn’t nearly as hot as Nola or Baton Rouge. It’s honestly around the same as DC. DC is a literal swamp and could get hot as shite in the summertime with the nearest beaches hours away and you’re in a concrete jungle. Screw all of that.
Charleston isn’t nearly as hot as Nola or Baton Rouge. It’s honestly around the same as DC. DC is a literal swamp and could get hot as shite in the summertime with the nearest beaches hours away and you’re in a concrete jungle. Screw all of that.
Posted on 7/29/25 at 8:18 am to Chucktown_Badger
quote:creed or Mumford? Went to Creed and it was incredible
Went to an outdoor concert
Posted on 7/29/25 at 8:19 am to Chucktown_Badger
It’s been pretty miserable here in the Ohio Valley the last couple of weeks. Have had a fair amount of haze from the Canadian wildfires that have just made the air quality shite. Normally, even when it gets up over 90 during the day, you have a cooler break in the morning and evenings without crazy humidity. It’s been staying in the 80s overnight with dew points over 75 and 90+% humidity so there’s no relief.
I went and sat out on the porch last night as storms rolled in as it’s been the only time in the last couple of weeks we’ve had a breeze that didn’t feel like a fart from Satan’s a-hole.
I don’t care for either hot or cold extreme. Fall and spring for me.
I went and sat out on the porch last night as storms rolled in as it’s been the only time in the last couple of weeks we’ve had a breeze that didn’t feel like a fart from Satan’s a-hole.
I don’t care for either hot or cold extreme. Fall and spring for me.
Posted on 7/29/25 at 10:31 am to Chucktown_Badger
Well guess what? News flash...different people are different. Who knew? I grew up in the south and have lived in almost every state from Arizona to Georgia and up to NC. I finally left Charleston, SC for the mountains of Vermont because I do not like going outside once the temp crosses 80 and kick on my AC once it hits mid 60's. I love the mountains and cool weather and will take a day of teens and 20's frolicking in the snow over a day at the beach or anywhere it is over 80 degrees 100% of the time. My heat barely runs until the temps are below freezing and even then I keep the cabin in upper 50's and 60's. But I live out in the country, I completely agree that city winter is absolute crap! That is why I live here, and since you like it warmer...that is why you live there. Good! We should all live where we are most comfortable.
As it applies to you...yes. As it applies to me...NO! I will take the worst weather of the "rural" north over 75% of all weather down south.
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So my theory has been proven correct.
As it applies to you...yes. As it applies to me...NO! I will take the worst weather of the "rural" north over 75% of all weather down south.
Posted on 7/29/25 at 10:48 am to Chucktown_Badger
I think it is a combo of location and weather.
Chicago in the winter sucks. Vail in the winter is awesome.
Charleston in the summer is awesome. Summer in Death Valley sucks
Chicago in the winter sucks. Vail in the winter is awesome.
Charleston in the summer is awesome. Summer in Death Valley sucks
Posted on 7/29/25 at 10:53 am to Chucktown_Badger
I believe this is mostly true. BUT, if you don't mind being bundled up in say, 30-40 degree weather and shopping, walking around, etc. - isn't a lot of the Chicago winter exactly this?
Whereas there are no 75 degree reprieve days in the deep south, it's full time for 3-5 months.
Whereas there are no 75 degree reprieve days in the deep south, it's full time for 3-5 months.
Posted on 7/29/25 at 10:56 am to Chucktown_Badger
Louisiana in August, Montana in January. Good luck with either of those climates.
Posted on 7/29/25 at 11:02 am to LSUPilot07
You can dress for -20, but there ain’t shite you can do when the heat index is 110 except keep your arse inside.
Posted on 7/29/25 at 11:14 am to Chucktown_Badger
quote:Grew up in Charleston, IMO not much difference between the heat and humidity there and in S La and Florida, where I've spent years in my adult life.
I'm getting the sense that it's another level for you guys. I actually love normal summer days here. shite, I go for runs at 3 in the afternoon when it's 92 degrees out
I will say that Charleston has been great the last couple of visits I had there, which was en route to see the Tigers play in Columbia in the past 12 months. We all just knew the football game in Sept would be hot as ballz, but it was amazingly in the high 70's / low 80's. And the baseball series was warm, but not blazingly hot and there was a strong breeze.
That said, weather here "up North" in Virginia is fairly temperate, a little snow in the winter and this week gonna be in the 70's after the mid-90's clears out.
Posted on 7/29/25 at 11:17 am to Chucktown_Badger
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"Worst weather" of the year when I lived in Chicago; this would be those mid-winter days where there was little sunlight temps would be in single digits or teens with a single digit windchill I would:
- Do nothing outside, moving as quickly between two heated indoor places as I could
That's supposed to be the perfect time and place for MAGA supporters to attack gay, black actors.
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