Florida: not the hottest
Many people just assume that Florida is always the hottest part of the United States east coast at any given time. While we have more warm weather days, we don’t really get up around 100 degrees very often here. I answered the phone yesterday and it was one of my mom’s old friends who lived three doors down from my childhood home in the DC suburbs. She told me that the temps had hit 101 there. Whew.
It was hot here. It’s been hot here, but we aren’t hitting 101. No way.
I remember one of my first summers here I left to go back North to visit friends. That was the heat wave of 99 and temps in FL stayed quite temperate. Up north, though, things were out of control. People were dying from the heat. I had borrowed a car and was visiting friends and the bar broke down. I was in the mountains and between cell towers. I had to go on roam and I finally called AAA, on the little bit of battery I had left. They told me to get back in the car, shut the doors, roll up the windows and wait for the tow truck! What? I know it must be policy to say that since I was alone on the side of the interstate, but it was a massive hear t wave. I probably would have died if I had followed their instructions.
And all I could think was that I left Florida and headed north for THIS!
So, here we are again. Temps up and down the east coast are sweltering and things here in Florida are the same as they always are – mid-90s with afternoon thunderstorms. And, in fact, the awesome coastal breezes we get before it rains are almost poetic.
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