Compare to Vegas right now, at 108F but you can actually cool off. The dew point there is 17F.
Having been to the Blackhat conference which is held in Vegas in August, I know which one I'd pick. Stay in the shade and Vegas is no big deal.
I was there for Google Next in April and it was hovering between 95 and 100 and I was comfortable in jeans and a polo, but I would have been just as comfortable at 60.
Living in the Upper Midwest, I find it so interesting that we deal with -40F to >105F (sometimes with 80 degree temperature swings in a day or two; going from -40 to +40) just fine but folks in places like Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and Tampa, FL cannot seem to handle even 10 degree swings. Crazy.
I dug up this map (which isn't very good, maybe someone has a better one) where it shows the highest temps in various places. Florida is behind states like Oregon and Washington.
https://eldoradoweather.com/climate/US%20Climate%20Maps/Lowe...
The humidity really does make a big difference though. Here east of the Cascades in Oregon it's quite dry, so even on a hot day, a bit of shade, breeze and a cool drink makes for pleasant conditions.
South Florida is basically all coral and sand at a few dozen feet above sea level except for the small ridge on the east coast (peaking at a whopping 86 feet) which provides the bedrock for Miami.
Central florida gets up to ~300 feet, downright alpine compared to south Florida.
Then you have the panhandle, which has the highest point in Florida, which isn’t surprising because it’s actually on the main continental block of North America
That's the new political position all around the world.
There are parts of the country which are not insurable because of hurricanes, fires, floods and tornadoes [4]. This is an indicator that anything built will not be around for a long time.
So they will sacrifice-they just know it yet.
[0] https://www.nass.usda.gov/Statistics_by_State/Florida/Public...
[1] https://www.nass.usda.gov/Statistics_by_State/Florida/Public...
[3] https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/animal-products/cattle-beef/...
[4] https://bankingjournal.aba.com/2025/02/feds-powell-says-some...
I also appreciate that they have see surface temperature anomaly, which can hugely impact temperature. Watching the ocean get to 100 degrees around Manatee Bay in 2023 was wild. https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/earth-systems/blog/hot-tub... https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_daily/?dm_id=world2
It looks like Tampa's not really that much better than usual? But on the north rim of the Gulf of a Mexico, there's some decent sized temperature anomolies.
toomuchtodo•7h ago
davidw•6h ago
WarOnPrivacy•6h ago
Once the motor cooled enough to be handled, son #3 disassembled it, smoothed out the shaft and applied some super sticky grease. Motor spins freely but only starts sometimes. I've got a construction fan on top, blowing up for now.
toomuchtodo•1h ago
WarOnPrivacy•1h ago
I was uncertain whether the cap's tolerance difference mattered. Existing is half rubbed off and shows something like ?0/-5% and replacement is ±16/±16%. But #3 knows caps and says we're good.
mindslight•1h ago
Be aware with the fan on top, sucking air gives much less cooling capacity than blowing air (the intake flow is mostly laminar).
I had an oil burner motor that would occasionally fail to start up. Subtle rough spot on one of the bearings, so if it stopped in that exact place it didn't have the torque to start spinning.
WarOnPrivacy•55m ago
As of today the fan isn't starting and the external fan draw isn't spinning the blades any more. Bushings are at least part of that.
We've got a replacement cap to try anyway but the motor won't be in until Thur.
> Be aware with the fan on top, sucking air gives much less cooling capacity than blowing air
Gotta work with what we got. It's enough to stave off thermal locking.
The house has 2 units and we're setting that stat higher and supplementing with fans.