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Originally Posted by MandoMan
I had a heat stroke once—in upstate New York—and now I just can’t take high heat or humidity while doing things for more than a few minutes. Golf would be a misery. I gave it up. I grew up in Denver, and I remember an ENT surgeon telling me, “Do you know how you can tell you’re in Denver? [which is often very low humidity]? At every intersection, the driver next to you has his finger up his nose fishing.” In Arizona, the drying of nasal secretions can certainly make it hard to breathe. Lots of home run humidifiers to add moisture inside. I don’t have that problem here.
Consider air conditioning. It doesn’t pay attention to things like the “heat index” because removing humidity from the air is just a by-product of cooling. No extra charge. In The Villages, the temp (excluding the “heat index”) isn’t often above 90, and when it is, often clouds roll in so the sun isn’t shining on houses. It takes a lot more electricity to cool a house from 110° to 75° on a day where the sun shines the whole time than it takes to cool it from 90° to 75° where the sun shines for three or four fewer hours.
Would I want to play golf on a course surrounded by a desert or surrounded by paradise? I prefer it here.
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The problem is that Florida climate is NOT staying constant year after year. Florida (and the whole world) have been warming significantly for the past 15 years. And hurricanes therefore have the potential to get stronger every year. The western US is not without heat problems including increased forest fires.