> [Kelly, on Texas...]
> > Don't you miss that? I can't imagine living in a state where the weather is the same for more than ten minutes. :)
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> This is hilarious. It seems like every place I know, volatile weather is an infamous characteristic. How can EVERY place be renowned for volatile weather? Why isn't San Diego simply more recognized as the only place the weather doesn't change at all?
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> In New England, the joke is, "If you don't like the weather, wait a minute." This is supposed to be hilarious to tourists, but tourists from where? Apparently Texans would be unimpressed. When I was in Florida last, thickly overcast skies rained almost every day...for half an hour. The rest of the time it was bright and sunny. One of those half hour rainfalls was one of the heaviest downpours I remember. Then, when I lived in Europe, well, I remember one time I got off the school bus when it was raining, and during my walk home it cleared into cloudless sunshine, and by the time I walked through my front door, there was a snowstorm.
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> Seems like I've heard of an awful lot of other places having reputations for highly changeable weather. How can so many places have this reputation?

If you want stable weather, come to Tennessee. It's hot, humid, and calm out there and that's the way it's going to be until mid-September. I don't count isolated thunderstorms. They're too undependable. This is the time of year when my only thoughts are those that include words like California, Hawaii, Canada, Tacoma, and air conditioner. It's not just the weather. It's also the bugs.
Howard