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Just an add-on. I have a double lot so when I'm outside I'm either cutting grass/edging, playing golf, or playing with my grandkids in the pool. Two of those activities are fun but the latter only occurs every other weekend or so as my kiddos live a couple hours south of here. We go down there a lot too. They're pre-school age so we can do those things, save swimming, all year round.
A part of me gets why someone south of I-70 would complain about summer. Most of their winter's aren't too awful and the quantity of 90+ and humid days actually pile up. There's the other part of me that says you moved there to get away from winter and this is the price though. Above I-70? Unless you're flooded it does not compute. There's like 2-3 waves like this per summer. And unlike the worst of winter you can still go outside anyway. Where I live is generally more comfortable, but that's one of the reasons I moved here in the first place. Deal with a lot more snow to get a summer filled with 80's.
This though I say a good spring day beats a good summer day the issue in the Midwest is there are a ton of 45 degree rainy spring days. Those 70 degree plus spring days where you can air out the house are hard to beat.
Early July 2012 (forget the exact day) was the hottest day of my life and it was in Detroit. A couple got married in one of those old churches without air. People fainted, including the bride. Reception was at the Masonic temple, where the air didn’t work for the first 45 minutes. People just straight up left and then there was a fight at the end of the reception where guns came out. It was a day.
We were at a wedding in Toledo that weekend. Reception was outdoors
This was all right after some massive storms blew through there too. Large sections of town were without power for days. Don't remember if that was the hottest day ever, but it was close. Over 100, but don't remember by how much.
I have been hunted by a biting horsefly in the woods before. It is kind of terrifying and the bites hurt, like a strong pinch.
Between 2016 and next month, I'll have been in FL 3 times in summer - A wedding at Epcot (hot pavement!), moving my stepdaughter for college (carrying furniture & boxes up a flight of steps), and next month moving my stepson (at least he's getting a ground floor apartment).Capella said:
Our summers can really vary though. We are in a major heatwave right now but I can also remember 4th of Julys where I was wearing pants and a hoodie for an evening boat ride.
This is the exact reason why air conditioning belongs on the list of greatness inventions ever.
In Michigan? Home of the winterosaurous wimmens? The view improves the further south you go.
Straight up lie.
How do you cool off at work when the AC is on the fritz or in a building with no AC or if you need to do something outside? Or if you're at a wedding or a picnic or any other outdoor activity where there is no pool to conveniently jump into.
Use a fan, a misting bottle and/or drink a cold beverage. All much better options than having to cover yourself in more clothes and shaking uncontrollably.
I work in an office that has both been without AC in July and heat in January at some point in the last few years. This probably belongs in the not debateable thread, but January is worse. Much much much worse.
There may not be a better place in this country than northern/western Michigan in July.
You aren't kidding. It's amazing.
I can do all of those things in the spring and fall much more comfortably, we’ll aside from the no shirt thing but I have no use for that anyway
Later in the day when the sun goes behind the trees, just perfect. The mornings are pretty spectacular as well, but you need to have the discipline to get up early and take advantage of them. Early morning summer bike rides are some of my favorites.
This is a good post. But is there a place in the usa where I never have to experience either one?
Yep, sun has fallen below all obstructions and the shirt's back on. What kinda psycho doesn't love this.
Halloween. 
