Its snowing here as I type - sigh - time for the snow tires.

This sucks...

 

Where is here? It's not in your post, or profile. My ESP is waiting for parts.

 

Sorry. "Here" is Ottawa, Canada.

 

it's snowing here in MI also... time to change my rim back to steelies!

 

No snow here yet in northern missouri, but its been raining for two weeks straight and been hovering above the freezing point...

 

Precisely why I left the North 10 years ago and will never go back.

 

Snow is better than sweating up your interior. I'd rather change to snow tires rather than run the AC all the time, sweat anyways, stink up my cloth interior, and my clothes. It's too hot in Houston!

 

Whimp!

Seriously, I HATE cold. Can't stand it, hate 'suiting up for battle' just to get the mail or anything else, that way a 30 minute commute can become a 2 hour odyssey in a heavy snow, and watching cars rot out from under you due to corrosion/chemicals/etc.

I will not argue I get sick of the Aug-Sept heat but can deal with it knowing all 'winter' long will be fine.

 

Dont worry it snowed here two weeks ago in southern New Hampshire...This sucks!!!!

 

it's funny how people who don't have snow want snow/cold weather

then you have people who have snow/cold weather wanting hot/no snow weather

 

Grass is always greener.... Except for here in Florida, it still is! I don't miss the cold and snow. Especially when I'm on the beach in January and crusin with the top down.

 

We should all move to California. Weather there rocks!

 

What's snow?

 

After living in both NYC and Arizona I can say I'll definitely take the hot summers over the cold winters. At least it cools off a little at night and you could hang out outside for hour and be relatively comfortable. In the cold you are never comfortable for long.

I gotta get out of this city!!

 

Kidding BTW, I would kill for warm weather!!! But I hate taht damn humidity.

 

I'm there

 

I'm jealous, it's cold as a witches !@# here in UTAH!!! Bring back summer!!

 

i wish it snowed in fl. id like to see what it feels like to stop it at 10 mph and see how far i slide, ha ha.

 

I went to Atlanta for a few days in early June and I couldn't believe how freakin hot it was during the day. Ran in the AC in my room full blast non-stop.

Unfortunately, our trip back to the airport was in a cab is AC compressor was failing, so the AC didn't work at low RPMs, and we got stuck in traffic wearing a business suit. Thought I was going to die...

I remember talking to some fellow from Richardson, Texas about how hot it got during the summers. He made an interesting analogy to living in a cold climate.

During winter, you go from your heated house, to your heated car to your heated work.

In Texas, you go from your AC cooled house, to your AC cooled car to your AC cooled work.

As much as most Canadians ***** and moan about the winter (except for people in Vancouver, who only get 300 days a year of rain - think Bladerunner) I think I would miss winter. Doesn't seem like X-mas unless there's snow on the ground.

 

I agree about the snow thing. Some years, Christmas passes and I hardly notice because it's 75F outside.

I heard a statistic that Houston has the most air conditioners in the world. We have so many that supposedly there's this artificial air bubble over our city that affects weather patterns, a high pressure zone or something, that's why hurricanes coming directly at Houston through the Gulf of Mexico always move to the right towards Louisiana and Florida. Lucky us .

 

Since you are closer to the equator, do your days get substantially shorter in the winter?

During the summer, we have sunlight until 9:30 - 10 pm, and the sun rises a little after 5:00 am.

Now with daylight savings time, the sun gets up just before 6:00 am and sets just after 5:00 pm.

 

Believe me, no you wouldn't. You'd crap yourself. I've come up to intersections at 10 mph, hit ice and then had to think to myself, "Do want to hit the curb or that car in front" And this is happening to the guy behind me at the same time. Snow sucks.

 

I think they say days are longer during the winter, but I've never thought about it. For dst, sun is up at 6:30AM, goes down at 6PM. Normally it comes up around 6:45AM and sets around 8:30PM, so yeah, I guess the days are shorter.