[Ben Franklin]

Originally Posted by manaboutown

I have a friend who has lived in Miami all of her 70+ years who visits me here now and then. A native Floridian, she told me that central Florida is both hotter in the summer and colder in the winter than where she lives on the Atlantic side of south Florida, likely due to the offshore breezes.

And we lived on the opposite coast. It's true that we were lower in the temperature department, but it was much more humid living near the Gulf, than it is up here. Presently, it's 92 degree here in TV land with the humidity at 45%. In Southwest, Florida it's 88 with the humidity at 70%.