Hot enough for ya?
Quote: FinsRuleMy family goes to Michigan every summer. (From Chicagoland)
After the Civil War, the railroads were
being built all over the country. By
the 1880's they were all over MI and
the tourist trade was rolling along.
The mentality was, upper MI was still
a wilderness, and you could have an
adventure there for a vacation. The
complete opposite of big city life was
just a few hours away by train. When
Hemingway was there as boy, there
was no electric, no indoor plumbing.
Lots of Native Americans, it was the
ending of an era.
Quote: RigondeauxIf only Vegas were on the Oregon coast it would be the perfect city.
I can’t think of a worse area. Maybe Canada?
Quote: RSI can’t think of a worse area. Maybe Canada?
Hawaii is the only state where Vegas
would be perfect. The climate there
is not of this world. That's why the
cost of living there is not of this world.
9:30 pm and the temp outside is 100F.
Excessive heat right now:
https://www.weather.gov/
https://www.weather.gov/vef/
Brrr...
Starting in the 1930's my family started spending part of the summer at a lake in New Hampshire in order to escape the heat and humidity of NJ in the summer.
Those days were pre-air conditioning, when there really was no way to find relief from the heat other than by physically escaping it.
Quote: KeeneoneIt is always very very hot here in June.
9:30 pm and the temp outside is 100F.
Excessive heat right now:
https://www.weather.gov/
https://www.weather.gov/vef/
I’m at the Paris pool. Lying in what they call a ‘day bed’. Ensures shade. It’s 100 now at 10:20. The pool actually feels too cool now! But it’s in the shade for a shirt while longer. Last night I walked from T Mobile Arena to the Paris. It felt almost ‘phony’ how hot it was. Like it couldn’t naturally be that hot after sunset. As I’ve been typing our daybed is now in the sun. Even with the shade protection it is roasting!
I think I want Bob’s 75 and sunny in Michigan now! We
Quote: SOOPOOI’m at the Paris pool. Lying in what they call a ‘day bed’. Ensures shade. It’s 100 now at 10:20. The pool actually feels too cool now! But it’s in the shade for a shirt while longer. Last night I walked from T Mobile Arena to the Paris. It felt almost ‘phony’ how hot it was. Like it couldn’t naturally be that hot after sunset. As I’ve been typing our daybed is now in the sun. Even with the shade protection it is roasting!
I think I want Bob’s 75 and sunny in Michigan now! We
Come on SOOPOO, it doesn't even get hot in Vegas until it cracks 110. This afternoon will be warm and tomorrow even hotter. It is only June, July and August are the hot months. Do you understand now why I like the earliest tee time at the golf course. In July it will be in the 90's when we tee off at 5:30am.
Quote: SOOPOOI’m at the Paris pool. Lying in what they call a ‘day bed’. Ensures shade. It’s 100 now at 10:20. The pool actually feels too cool now!
What is it about Vegas pools that can make you feel so freezing in 100 degree weather? I’ve had that experience many times.
I’ll be arriving in town on Saturday. The temp is forecasted to be a balmy 114 degrees.
from the article:
"The current heat wave is expected to be the most intense and widespread through Saturday, threatening to exceed the highest temperatures on record in Arizona (128 degrees Fahrenheit) and Nevada (125)."
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125, holy hell, let's hope not.Quote: lilredrooster
"The current heat wave is expected to be the most intense and widespread through Saturday, threatening to exceed the highest temperatures on record in Arizona (128 degrees Fahrenheit) and Nevada (125)."
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What will summer be like?
Quote: EvenBobAccuWeather says right now at 4 p.m. In Vegas its 115 degrees. 115 tomorrow should cool down to 111 for the weekend. 75 again here today, 3rd beautiful day in a row.
Yes, but it is 55 at night which would make me turn the heat on and have all of the fireplaces blazing and I would still be miserable.
Quote: DRichYes, but it is 55 at night which would make me turn the heat on and have all of the fireplaces blazing and I would still be miserable.
Most of mid to northern Michigan will be in the mid 40s tonight
Quote: vegasMost of mid to northern Michigan will be in the mid 40s tonight
Perfect sleeping weather and anything below 50 degrees kills mosquitoes of which I have not seen any this year anyway. It was too cold during the Spring
with heat like this so early, sadly, it's all but a sure thing that this summer CA will again have timber fires as a huge issue
and it's one that they really don't have a handle on
they are not able to prevent it from happening and when it does happen they are not able to quickly contain or extinguish the fires
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Quote: lilredrooster.........with heat like this so early, sadly, it's all but a sure thing that this summer CA will again have timber fires as a huge issue and it's one that they really don't have a handle on they are not able to prevent it from happening and when it does happen they are not able to quickly contain or extinguish the fires^
I have to suspect that many of the Californians living in areas prone to wildfire are considering finding some other state to move to, a place with similar hills / mountains / "quality of life" but with little or no risk of wildfire.
At one time Californians moved to the Pac NW, and perhaps that is now in their game plan.
Might want to reconsider, as we also had wildfires all over the place last year, some very, very bad and very, very big.
"Out of the frying pan, into the fire?"
My sister invited me to spend a few weeks at her house in Palm Beach Florida. I'm not sure what to do. I moved to Bisbee to escape the summer heat.
Quote: vegasI think 87 in Florida will feel as bad as 100 in Bisbee
I don't disagree. A few years ago, I left Vgas where it was 114 and arrived in NY at 10PM , where it was 91 and very humid. I wanted to fly ack the same day.
The biggest difference is I don't pay for AC in Florida.
It's 1115 and I just walked thirty yards roundtrip to get my mail. I feel like I got a mega-last of vitamin D. Three summers in Vegas didn't prepare me for this heat.
Quote: MrVI have to suspect that many of the Californians living in areas
In the seven years I lived in California there was always every year some natural disaster going on. If there was not a killer drought there was so much rain that houses were sliding down the side of hills. If there was not an earthquake, there were major forest fires everywhere. You get used to it and don't even think about it after a while.
Quote: SOOPOOHope to be in Florida October through April. The best of both worlds.
How is Florida the best of any world. Florida sucks winter and summer. Flat as a pancake, overpopulated, especially overpopulated with old people and unsavory types, too many bugs, too many tourists, too much crime, the list is endless. I would not live in Florida if it was free.
Lots of folks from NY/NJ area move to Florida to avoid cold winters.
As they grew up in a climate of high heat and humidity in the summer (granted, not as high as Fla.) they don't need to do much to adjust.
Quote: MrVYou like Michigan, we get it.
Lots of folks from NY/NJ area move to Florida to avoid cold winters.
As they grew up in a climate of high heat and humidity in the summer (granted, not as high as Fla.) they don't need to do much to adjust.
Any time that I have been in humid climates I seem to adjust after a month or so.
Quote: mcallister3200Always a jolt from the massive difference in humidity walking off a plane when you fly from the desert southwest to NOLA or Florida late spring to early fall. Other than the food it’s easy to see why people are so big down there. Screw exercising outside, dripping sweat just walking after a minute or two.
It always makes my glasses fog up.
Quote: MrVYou like Michigan, we get it.
My hating Florida it's nothing to do with Michigan. I used to visit my dad in the 80s when he live there and every time I want I thought how in God's name do people live here on purpose. On top of everything else it's so boring there. Oh look the ocean. Oh look another palm tree. Oh look another stucco building. Then there are these every
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Michigan is by far the most boring place in the universe. When I was a kid, my family used to visit my aunt uncle and cousins in Michigan. No joke...their idea of excitement was watching plane contrails.Quote: MrVYou like Michigan, we get it.
Quote: UP84Michigan is by far the most boring place in the universe. When I was a kid, my family used to visit my aunt uncle and cousins in Michigan. No joke...their idea of excitement was watching plane contrails.
Have you ever been to Nebraska, Iowa, or Kansas? Or driven from Las Vegas to Reno without detouring through CA/to 395?
Quote: UP84Michigan is by far the most boring place
Michigan is so boring it's been a major vacation destination since the end of the Civil War. Tourism is a main source of Michigan income because it's so boring. Just one example. My wife and her sisters are from Michigan yet every year they stay for three nights and 4 days on Mackinac Island at the Grand Hotel. They love it they look forward to it, because it's so boring. There are so many tourist destinations in Michigan it takes a small book to list all of them. Do you want boring? Drive thru Iowa and Kansas one day.
On the average summer day thousands of people visit Mackinac Island via ferry, because a boat is the only way to get there. No cars allowed on the island, horse-drawn vehicles only. 2nd image is the Grand Hotel built in the late eighteen hundreds. It's spectacular and worth a trip to the island just to see it and go through it. It has the longest front porch of any building in the world, 660 feet. Six hundred horses work on the island. There are fifteen hundred bicycles. 70 miles of bike trails. 15 fudge shops. The first time you visit the history and the quaintness will knock your socks off. More than 15,000 people a day take the 20 minute ferry rides to the island. The ferry ride itself is kind of exciting because the water is always choppy, it's always chilly, the wind is always blowing, and it feels dangerous even though it's not.
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Quote: mcallister3200Have you ever been to Nebraska, Iowa, or Kansas?
Driving through those states count the number of times you want to kill yourself per hour and imagine living there.
Is Michigan #1?
drumroll..................
Nope Michigan #31
Quote: rxwineFlorida is #2 state for tourism
Who said it's number one. I said it gets a huge number of tourists every year, winter and summer. It's completely surrounded on three sides by the Great Lakes, duh. It has almost as much as shoreline as California. Shoreline means tourists.
Dude, I've been to those places, and they're boring. 15 fudge shops. Wow! Your post just confirms my point that some Michiganders have a totally twisted sense of what's interesting.Quote: EvenBobMichigan is so boring it's been a major vacation destination since the end of the Civil War. Tourism is a main source of Michigan income because it's so boring. Just one example. My wife and her sisters are from Michigan yet every year they stay for three nights and 4 days on Mackinac Island at the Grand Hotel. They love it they look forward to it, because it's so boring. There are so many tourist destinations in Michigan it takes a small book to list all of them. Do you want boring? Drive thru Iowa and Kansas one day.
On the average summer day thousands of people visit Mackinac Island via ferry, because a boat is the only way to get there. No cars allowed on the island, horse-drawn vehicles only. 2nd image is the Grand Hotel built in the late eighteen hundreds. It's spectacular and worth a trip to the island just to see it and go through it. It has the longest front porch of any building in the world, 660 feet. Six hundred horses work on the island. There are fifteen hundred bicycles. 70 miles of bike trails. 15 fudge shops. The first time you visit the history and the quaintness will knock your socks off. More than 15,000 people a day take the 20 minute ferry rides to the island. The ferry ride itself is kind of exciting because the water is always choppy, it's always chilly, the wind is always blowing, and it feels dangerous even though it's not.
The words boring and exciting are so specific to an individual that to argue over it is silly.
I get it, I see what's boring here. It's not Michigan..
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Quote: SOOPOOI go on a variety of different vacation types. Sometimes wifey wants the ‘boring’ type of vacation that Mackinaw Island is. I have friends who just love it there. .
Like most places the more money you have to spend the better your time will be.
Quote: EvenBobLike most places the more money you have to spend the better your time will be.
One of the few statements where I agree with Bob.
Quote: DRichOne of the few statements where I agree with Bob.
As a general rule, I agree. However, the three weeks I backpacked in Jamaica will always be the pinnacle of my vacations.
Quote: billryanAs a general rule, I agree. However, the three weeks I backpacked in Jamaica will always be the pinnacle of my vacations.
Mine was renting sailboats in the Virgin Islands. Each boat had a captain and a chef and we had 10 incredible days sailing around to all the little islands with no itinerary.
Quote: DRichMine was renting sailboats in the Virgin Islands. Each boat had a captain and a chef and we had 10 incredible days sailing around to all the little islands with no itinerary.
Nice. I've often thought of doing that.
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