Posted
on February 18, 2016
When
it comes to hatred, I'm against it!
But
this silly “holiday” isn't really about hatred. People who are
suffering in bitterly cold weather right about now might love
Florida, might long to live in Florida (or at least spend a week
there, to thaw out), might even envy Florida with a bitterness equal
to their own bitter weather in, say, Minnesota or Montana...
And
why is this? Because Florida is the warmest state in the U.S.!
Of
course, we are talking about state-wide average temperatures. Florida
and many other southern states have made the top-10 list of warmest
states. And did you already guess that Hawaii is on the list, as
well?
But
the tropical islands of Hawaii are not #1 on the list! Instead, the
warmest state, talking average temperatures over the course of the
entire year, is Florida!
So
then you get weather maps that look like this:
And
all the people “enjoying” high temperatures of 1 degree...or
maybe even minus 16 degrees!...have to see warm, cozy Florida down
there at the bottom of their weather map screens...day in and day
out!
What
winter?
As
I sit writing this post, here in Southern California—deep into
February, still very much in winter—I thought about the fact that
today we enjoyed a high of 90 degrees, and even now at 8:00 p.m., it
is 73 degrees. Warm days and super nice evenings—and it's been this
way all week. So I got to wondering where California is on the top-10
list of warmest states.
And
I discovered that California didn't make the top 10!
Well,
no duh! California is a really large state. And we have high snowy
mountains and a desert that is THE HOTTEST place in the U.S., in the
summer, and we have foggy Northern California coasts as well as sunny
So Cal...So naturally the average temperatures are not going to be as
high as a smaller state like Hawaii.
It
turns out that California is #8 warmest U.S. state in the winter, but
not in the top-10 in either the summer or in the year-round list. And
that's one reason that I love Southern California!
Here's
the complete list of the warmest states:
|
Rank |
Year
|
Winter
|
Summer
|
|---|---|---|---|
|
1
|
Florida
|
Hawaii
|
Louisiana
|
|
2
|
Hawaii
|
Florida
|
Texas
|
|
3
|
Louisiana
|
Louisiana
|
Florida
|
|
4
|
Texas
|
Texas
|
Oklahoma
|
|
5
|
Georgia
|
Georgia
|
Mississippi
|
|
6
|
Mississippi
|
Mississippi
|
Arkansas
|
|
7
|
Alabama
|
Alabama
|
Georgia
|
|
8
|
South
Carolina
|
California
|
Alabama
|
|
9
|
Arkansas
|
South
Carolina
|
South
Carolina
|
|
10
|
Arizona
|
Arizona
|
Arizona
|
And
this is what Southern California often looks like, even in the
winter:
Also
on this date:
Plan
ahead:
Check
out my Pinterest boards for:
And
here are my Pinterest boards for:
No comments:
Post a Comment