Cold to Hot

How do you feel about cold weather?

Having grown up in northern Michigan, I once embraced winter’s freezing temperatures from -17 to 5 degrees. My childhood was filled with snowmobiles, ice fishing, and building snowmen and snow forts. But after moving to Alabama in 1996, I experienced the opposite climate – summers that nearly “melted this Eskimo.” Now, after almost 30 years in the South, I’ve completely adapted. I believe I’d turn into a popsicle if I ever returned to northern Michigan, at least for the first few winters. While I loved the cold as a child, I’ve come to dislike it as an adult.

13 responses to “Cold to Hot”

  1. Certainly, Alabama has its own beauty, though it’s opposite to Michigan’s climate

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    1. Indeed it does. Foothills of the Appalachians. A whole different visual than those rolling hills of North Western Michigan.

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      1. Still, enjoy, emmitt

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  2. I completely understand,. πŸ˜‰

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    1. I take it that you’ve been in the cold ❄️ and the hot πŸ”₯ also. πŸ˜‚ I swear that I nearly melted in this southern heat… I missed that 3 foot deep snow for a few years, I miss the snow every year at Christmas time.

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      1. Yes, I have. We live in the Detroit area now but we have also lived in Colorado and Houston. 😁

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  3. I get it, Emmitt. Fifty years of cold, snowy Western NY winters – some summers when it was too chilly to even open the pool β€” followed by ten years of Southern Ohio heat and humidity. We had a snowfall of a foot this winter and it seemed so unusual. Forgetting the winter days when snow fell by the foot for hours. I do not miss it, lol.

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    1. Not even at Christmas time??? I’d love to wake up with a foot of snow on the ground for Christmas morning. I’ve had so many Christmas mornings playing football in the waist high snow.

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      1. OK, maybe an inch or two for Christmas, just to be pretty. I’m too old to shovel mountains of snow anymore, lol.

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  4. I moved up here in the lower part of the mitten from Alabama seven years ago. The winter is brutal and this year the spring seems to be also. I don’t miss the 100+ heat laced with humidity but I do miss the winter season.

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    1. I’ve had cousins post some spring photos the past few weeks on FB. From what I’ve seen, y’all have had a terrible start. We’re now in that spring to tornado to summer weather. Humidity isn’t as hectic as previous early summers due to the rain, which is good. It’s growing closer to putting the fishing gear away and diving head first into the luke warm lakes period.

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  5. In 1974 my family moved from northern Michigan (Johannesburg) to Arizona. I was there for 29 years when I got a job in Florida, I lived there for 17 years. I had a chance to move back to Arizona but I chose northern Arizona where it had seasons, which I realized I really missed. The winters in Northern Arizona were unusual, but I like seeing the leaves turn in fall and the cool, rainy weather in spring. A year ago I left Arizona to Indiana, my son lives here. The weather is weird, like a roller coaster, but I like living in a place where rain is a part of the spring and summer. Living where fire is a part of the spinet and summer is daunting and frightening. I’m okay with snow, cold and lots of rain, change in the weather feels right for me.

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  6. Funny! So glad you have learned how to go with your flow instead of regrets from the past! Nice article! Thanks for sharing!

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