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Originally Posted by jimjamuser
This summer has been disgustingly hot, Hot, and HOT !!! Lots of "feels like" temperatures over 100 deg and often with no wind with blasting sun. If I play any sports in the morning, I sweat from my shirt down to my shorts and even my socks get damp. Next summer, if the is no Covid, I am going to play only inside with A/C type sports or inside classes. According to climate scientists we have had record world HEAT so far this summer and they predict even hotter next year. I can't take that anymore. I can't enjoy summer sports in Florida anymore. Summer will likely NEVER exist for me outside anymore here in Florida.
........I am jealous of all you SNOWBIRDS, so enjoy yourselves, I wish I could be there.
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All comes down to attitude.
My wife is a tropical critter who whenever the temp hits 85 or above is complaining about how HOT it is. I have to remind her of A)what month it is and B) our address, also that we moved here voluntarily to escape -30 and snowdrifts up to our chin. Helps for a little while. But she still insists on hiding under an umbrella whenever we're out on the golf course. She also has this long, thin ice bag that she carries around in a cooler of ice and wraps around her neck from time to time.
I on the other hand embrace the heat. I actually feared moving here because I spent 72 years up on that tundra called Minnesota and had heard all the horror stories about Florida in the summer. But once here I found out I loved it! Odd thing--our part of Minnesota actually got more 100 degree days in a year than does TV (of course it gets oodles more subzero days too). But once here my arthritis just about disappeared and found that a quart bottle of ice water is enough for the first three miles of a six-mile walk in any weather, and a bottle of iced tea (Publix is the turnaround point) is sufficient for the trip back. Golf is great on any summer afternoon--just drive up and any course you pick is usually wide open after 2 pm or so.
And my tan is great!