Summer in tv
 

Obviously, that's why we are called permanent. Of course we do take vacations, just as anyone who lives wherever would do during the summer. If you want to stay somewhat local and head out for 4 days or so, Amelia Island, Savannah, Disney, Gulf Coast, South Florida, Panhandle are all good choices.

We vacation in Arizona to get away from the summer heat....

You took the words out of my mouth!

What percentage of folks stay year around?
I was told 60-80%?
Any estimates??

LOL.....but it's a dry heat! :cold:

the mountains of NC

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South Pacific.:popcorn:

Up north

Pizza ovens also deliver dry heat!
Had to put my 2 cents in!

I had always heard about 50%.

And, us FROGS take vacations to the same places everyone else does.

I think It's below 60%. Snowbirds start to leave first of April, we stay til end of June then go up north. You start to see increase in September, by November TV is booming.

We prefer to stay right here, but seem to always have to leave to visit the children and grandchildren up North, and apart from seeing the family, I am bored to death. I usually find the weather is hot and humid, the bugs are big enough to carry you off, and the lack of air conditioning is very noticeable!

We don't travel unless we really have to ....................... However, by the time the end of August arrives I am ready for a break from the Florida heat and that is when I like to be on the road.

Going back to a thread from six months ago. I asked our meteorology department to track The Villages weather for a two-week period last summer. The heat index exceeded Phoenix, almost everyday. I’ll take 100 in Phoenix over 80 in TV, any day of the week. It really is the humidity that makes a day go from uncomfortable to unbearable. TV, or Central FL, is the last place I want to spend the hottest part of the summer. Thankfully, God blessed me with the ability and resources to get away for a few weeks. As for places to go? Any place further north of the equator than FL. :)

Too bad more people don't feel this way. Say hi to Phoenix for me. Don't forget to take a friend.

You must be having a bad day. I know you’re not the mean person you are portraying. I hope things get better for you. God bless.

Being of limited means and a wife that wants to sell our beautiful lake home in Minnesota 40 miles east of Fargo, to move to TV, I worry about the humid/hot summers. I golfed nearly 50 times in November/December in TV but wonder how that will be in the summer??

Here year-round except for 2-3 week vacation a couple of times a year, usually Vegas, but Europe last couple of years.. I love it here in summer. Play golf whenever you want and actually get into restaurants when you want to eat.
Never cancelled a tee time because of being too hot, have cancelled in winter because too cold.

Phoenix is rarely as cool as 100 degrees during the day in summer.......Tucson which is higher in altitude than Phoenix is however

We stay here all year long and in the Summer we go any place we want because the snowbirds are gone, and no crowds at all.:spoken:

We just enjoy the uncongested state of TV when we can actually go to a restaurant or get on a golf course or drive without being scared to death. :-)

You’re absolutely right. 100 during a Phoenix summer would be considered a cold snap. I have a home in Scottsdale and as you know it gets very hot in the summer. Not enjoyable at all. However, you don’t see the Heat Indexes in the 120’s like you do in TV. One day in August it was a sizzling uncomfortable 108 in Scottsdale with a heat index of 105, TV was 90 with a heat index of 122. It’s so cliché to talk about “dry heat,” but the fact is it makes all the difference in the world.

When I was a poor college student in Daytona Beach I could not afford an apartment or a car with air conditioning. So perhaps I’ve become a bit more sensitive to the FL humidity than most. I have no doubt there are those that love a hot humid day, I just happen to not be one of them. I like to spend my summers in neither AZ nor FL.

What did they do, in the south, before air conditioning???

Where did you get the 122 heat index from? I have never seen a heat index in Florida above 112 and those days are rare. I agree that 100 in Az is more tolerable than a day in Florida at 92 but they both feel disgustingly hot. A day in AZ at 110 is still 110 even if it is dry.

Looks like the heat index reaches 122 at 90 degrees F, 90% humidity. NWS Heat Index

At 40% humidity it takes a temperature of 104 F to reach a heat index of 119. At lower humidities the temperature can go a bit higher before it reaches 120 or more.

Humidity makes a HUGE difference in the heat index.

We are lucky to have homes, cars, stores, restaurants all with AC. Many many pools to jump into, if you get up early lots of sports options. Very few bugs or mesquitos. "OFF" SEASON is really the best time in the villages, especially if you can afford to break up the summer with a vacation or two.

We moved down here last May and spent much of the summer (after unpacking) either at the pool or in a/c in our house. I discovered I can tolerate heat & humidity better than snow and cold. To each his own.

I understand how it works but when have you seen it be 90% humidity while it is 90 degrees in Fla? If the humidity is that high the temp is not going to be 90 because it has just rained and the air temp has been cooled. Not saying it's not hot and humid here and as a life long Floridian I still hate summer in Fla. but it is not as extreme as some have said. Thank the good lord for John Gorrie.

I agree.:a040:

I would bet closer to 60% based on traffic.

"So is a pizza oven" said Johnny Carson.

I moved to Miami in 1953 and didn't have A/C until about 1965. We used lots of fans and didn't really know any better since we never had A/C. I went to schools that didn't have A/C but we opened the windows. I remember having Gym running around the field playing softball, soccer or whatever and then taking a shower and trying to dry off but couldn't sweating too much.

Make no mistake it's hot here but you do get used to it if you try. Our a/c was set at 74 for May and June about the first of July we said man it's cold in here so up went the thermostat to 78 dropping down to 74 at night. We are from NE Ohio so we are used to the humidity. I played pickleball five days a week from 9:00. Till noon, came home showered took a nap and played golf on the championship courses at 6:00, all you can play for $5-$8. June July and half of August you can get 18 in Also we ate lunch at every country club on Saturdays, started in mid June at Legacy finished mid August at Orange Blossom, never had to wait for a table.

We stay here. Sweat a lot. Run away from thunderstorms.

I got if from the airline I fly for with their $200 mill meteorology department and my meteorology background from my undergrad and graduate studies in aeronautical science. However, below is a quick layman’s chart. During the 2-week period, I had TV graphed, it reached a humidity of 100% EVERY day. If you use the National Weather Service you will find inputting a temp of 90 and 100% humidity gives you a heat index of 132.

There is more that goes into heat index. One can extrapolate a heat index using algorithms within the K-index vertical lapse rate. Anyway, a Heat Ind. Of 120+ is an almost daily occurrence during the summer in central FL.

Heat Index Calculation

And now you know why rent goes down by 75% after April

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When it was 100 % humidity the temp wasn't 90 degrees......it might have been 90 earlier that day but to get 100 % humidity during the day in Fla it was caused by a thunderstorm recently passing over which kicked the temp down 15 to 20 degrees. I don't dispute that it's hot and humid in Fla but not to the extreme you stated.

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I love summers here. Heat may be uncomfortable but cold for me is painful. I find it hot only in mid afternoons and jump in the pool. Otherwise I play tennis almost every morning and the evenings are usually nice with a breeze. We eat almost all of our lunches and dinners on the lanai - there are very few times when it is too hot. That said, the summer is long.

I lived in Texas, Oklahoma, Az. Neb. Missouri, Illinois, New Mexico, And La and worked outside. I compare Florida to La. In August. Texas, Oklahoma to Az, the northern state in there own category. Hot is hot to me 100plus degrees was just as hot in Neb. As it was in Texas or Az. It was hot!

I find Florida in summer bearable up to about noon, after that I go in hiding till bout 6PM. Now that I am older I have to watch the sun from burning the skin which worst due to the angle of the sun down here. Another reason I go into hiding most summer days here in land of milk and honey where streets are paved in gold!

I never sweat so bad at 8am except here and La.