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Southeastern Heat

NMSbowhunter said:
Yeah, but Weldabeast is from the frigid northern part of Florida. He's used to those colder climates.
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Frigid and Florida are oxymorons. He and I are from the same city. We might get 2 nights in the 30’s all “winter” long. I will say this. We have high humidity all year long and we have some bone chilling winds. I’ve heard several of my northern colleagues say that 40 in Florida doesn’t feel anything like 40 in (name your state Wi, Mi, Pn). Either way though I can’t handle that cold stuff. I’m usually good until mid 40’s. After that I’m freezing, my fingers hurt and I begin questioning all life choices :tearsofjoy:
 
Fl Canopy Stalker said:
Frigid and Florida are oxymorons. He and I are from the same city. We might get 2 nights in the 30’s all “winter” long. I will say this. We have high humidity all year long and we have some bone chilling winds. I’ve heard several of my northern colleagues say that 40 in Florida doesn’t feel anything like 40 in (name your state Wi, Mi, Pn). Either way though I can’t handle that cold stuff. I’m usually good until mid 40’s. After that I’m freezing, my fingers hurt and I begin questioning all life choices :tearsofjoy:
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Ha, for some reason I was thinking you were from the Tampa area. My bad. I remember hearing a guy from Michigan talking about an experience he had after being invited down to Florida to hunt hogs. The forecast was for mid 40's so he thought, yeah, shorts and a tee shirt. I remember him saying he just about froze to death. It's the humidity.
 
NMSbowhunter said:
Ha, for some reason I was thinking you were from the Tampa area. My bad. I remember hearing a guy from Michigan talking about an experience he had after being invited down to Florida to hunt hogs. The forecast was for mid 40's so he thought, yeah, shorts and a tee shirt. I remember him saying he just about froze to death. It's the humidity.
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Yea I try to avoid Tampa if I can help it… Tom Brady helped their team win a superbowl ring and I hold that against them
 
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BTaylor said:
Why did y'all gravel the beaches? Cant y'all do anything right up there? :p
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You got that one right…… the “beach” is more like where Fred Flintstone lives in Bedrock but it does get sandier closer to the water. We have a beach cleaner that runs in a couple of coastal spots but every spring the lake tides have brought all that stuff right back in.
 
Fl Canopy Stalker said:
Frigid and Florida are oxymorons. He and I are from the same city. We might get 2 nights in the 30’s all “winter” long. I will say this. We have high humidity all year long and we have some bone chilling winds. I’ve heard several of my northern colleagues say that 40 in Florida doesn’t feel anything like 40 in (name your state Wi, Mi, Pn). Either way though I can’t handle that cold stuff. I’m usually good until mid 40’s. After that I’m freezing, my fingers hurt and I begin questioning all life choices :tearsofjoy:
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After we got back from Iraq Uno I had 56 days leave and needed to burn some so I took 28 days and drove around out west. Tent, Coleman stove and a sleeping bag. Woke up one morning in the Great Divide Basin in Wyoming and woke up freezing to death (only had a summer bag, didn’t figure September to ever be cold. Big mistake). I bailed off the mesa I was on to start the truck and crank the heat. I distinctly remember telling myself, “it must be 40 %}*#^%{ degrees out here!!!

Read in a newspaper later that day that the low that night was -5.

It was a “warm cold”
 
I think most all "northern guys" will agree that the 30-35 degree temps are the chilliest feeling. You just can't dress for the humidity. That said, my fingers/toes will not numb out at those temps. I'd also take hunting in that temperature range over the 45 degrees and up any day of the year. My favorite hunting takes place in December where temps are in the low teens my fingers will numb out in the time it takes me to hook up my rappel rope and rappel down. :tearsofjoy: FWIW I hunt in fingerless wool gloves regardless of the temp.

Funny thing though, my fingers never get cold climbing the tree at those same temps even though I'm handling a cold metal one stick between every move and I don't wear gloves going up the tree at all.
 
Fl Canopy Stalker said:
I haven’t noticed the early heat effecting them near as much as the sheer lack of rain we’ve been having. It flooded in south Florida a couple weeks ago and South Florida archery season opens in few weeks. But here in north east Florida, we have until mid September. My first quota hunt is the first of October so I haven’t even began scouting yet. I’m hoping to start sometime in the next week or two. We saw some velvet on a few young bucks in north Ga last week when we were on vacation. I told my wife I might have to rent a cabin on the edge of a WMA up there and hunt the property line because of all the deer we saw.
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I was in Jacksonville over the 4th. It’s so hot and humid there, it’s hard to function. I got back home to GA, the temps were the same, but it wasn’t near as brutal. I don’t know how yall do it.


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