Hot, Humid, What's Not to Like #mfrwauthor

Welcome to another week of the MFRW 52-week challenge. The topic is "What you like /dislike about the climate where you live."

LIKE

Minimal or no snow. Especially nice since our old house had over 100 feet of new sidewalk to shovel, not including the extra wide driveway. It wasn't too bad when we bought the house because we only had to clear about 50 feet, the driveway and a narrow path from the street to the front steps so the mailman could reach it. However, the town in their infinite wisdom when they replaced the grass walkway with concrete, also replaced the vintage slate sidewalk with concrete. The original slate cleared easily and with a little sun kept itself ice free. The concrete should have been called "ice city."

DISLIKE

The climate in the mid-South in the summer can be described in three letters... H O T. Where I used to live, three days of consecutive temperature over 90 degrees constituted a heat wave. Down here the bar is raised. Weather is not classified as a heat wave until a heat index of 100 degrees is reached for a week.

I can tolerate temperatures in the 80s or even the low 90s if the humidity isn't too bad. But the closer the temperature gets to 100 the harder it is to think and work.

Although the pandemic has eliminated this year's outdoor activities, a 110 degree heat index can do the same. Last year we couldn't attend several events including the county fair, concerts, town festival, and the special senior day at the zoo because the temperature made it unsafe to leave the house.

I'm hoping that next year we'll be able to resume more of our activities

~till next time, Helen