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76???

WTF? It's the beginning of the June. It's these kinds of things that makes it incredibly difficult for my body to ever truly acclimate to the east coast.

Other things:
1) Humidity with temps in the 70s or the low 80s. Oklahoma has to reach 85 or above to get enough evaporation from the many lakes and rivers in eastern oklahoma to give us humidity.
2) Thunderstorms that are over in less than an hour.
3) Cold temperatures through MAY. Granted, in OK, we do get ther freak april freeze that hurts the azaelas and the fruit trees. But MAY?? Obscene I tell you. Obscene. Even after 7 years.
4) June...ah, June. In many ways it starts my body singing because even in PA, the temp will start to go above 80 finally. Only problem is that in OK, the temp doesn't dip below 90 in June UNLESS we have rain. (the really abysmal part being when we have those years that we have a month of rainy days. those make stacey a very unhappy camper).
5) July and August serve to make me point and laugh at PA weather forecasters everytime they declare a heat wave when we have three consecutive days above 90. Who knew, the entire summer months of July and August are heat waves in OK. ROFL.
6) September....it makes me cry. Because as soon as August leaves, PA makes the weather go back below 90.

The sadder thing? I haven't actually been in any southern state in seven years during the summer months and my body still reacts this way. Do you see why I get so grumpy during the summers when the temp remains below 95 for all but four days??

The only good part of this is the electricity bill for a/c that I'll soon be paying again will be cheaper than if the summer here actually did what my body expects it to.
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Now that's a heat wave...

Maan, I so remembering the two SWELTERING summers in St. Louis. Both times, I had a top floor apartment with one itty bitty window a/c. The second summer was made marginally worse by a LARGER apartment w/ vaulted ceilings (I was 19 and an idiot. It looked pretty when I was apartment hunting in May), but the first summer still ranked as the worst due to the attack of the mono. Though, when you pass out from exhaustion after climbing three flights of stairs after driving to and from the grocery store, you really don't care what the temperature is.

Those summers are my measure for HOT. Philadelphia doesn't measure up simply because it always cools off to at least 80 by night time. There hasn't been one period of time that I have to take a cold shower and go to bed in only underwear in order to hope to eke out a couple of hours of sleep before I wake up hot and sticky again.

About the only thing that is comparable to it in Philly is when it's above 50 degrees outside and my heater is POURING out enough hot air to raise the temperature in my apartment above 90. That sucks...and makes me wonder if I'll like dry heat at all.

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