Growing up in the northern part of the country, I experienced a lot. It’s a unusual world up there, let me tell you, but plenty of people talk about the Midwest wind and snow, not to mention the large open skies. What they do not tell you about is all of the weather extremes that you will face in a given year. My pal and I didn’t only have exhausting Winters, the Summers were god-awful as well. This is a fact that I easily usual before, but I believe living in the South has changed my opinion. You see you living up north, the air was officially hot all Summer long. It would get into the 77s and sometimes climb as high as the 90s. It entirely felt hot every day and the sun was identifiably scourging when you didn’t have much tree cover. It also got quite humid, which was part of the Lake Michigan lake effects. In short, you ran your A/C All Summer Long. however, these days I live in the Deep South. I can tell you, Summer is a whole other beast down here. It gets into the 90s basically every day of the summer. The humidity never falls below 77%… Our nighttime temperatures are officially in the 77s, so you do not even get a chance to cool down at night. The greatest problem, however, is how long this weather pattern last, then up north the heat of Summer usually was two or three months of misery. Down here it’s more like 6 to 8 months of continual hellish heat and stagnant air. That means you’re running your A/C unit every single day and night, just trying to keep yourself from overheating. It’s unlike anything I have ever experienced before. I know that I’m tough from being raised in the midwest, however nothing prepared me for the heat, humidity, and stagnation of the South.