The weather in North Carolina is very manageable

I haven't traveled too far and wide, but I've been enough places to know that I really appreciate the rather mild seasons that we experience in the place that I have called home for my entire life.

We are at the back end of January right now and the weather here is very manageable. I don't care for extremes in either direction of hot or cold and outside of a about a month in summer, we just don't really get long stretches of really hot or really cold weather here.

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56% humidity is something that is in my opinion a very mild amount and I suppose this isn't very noticeable in winter, but it would be in summer but the humidity is relatively mild then as well.

src Perhaps it is common around the world to have a relative humidity that is pretty stable year round, I don't claim to be worldly with my knowledge and keep my opinions to things that I actually know about. All I know is that when I visit my college friends who live in various other states and also one person who lives in Mexico now, that I was silently uncomfortable with what the temperatures and humidity were like.

Here we are now in January, which is normally one of the coldest months no matter where you live, and I am able to comfortably get things done outside, start my car on the first try, and rarely even have to deal with clearing frost off the windows in the morning. When you manage construction sites cold weather can be a massive pain in the backside but in all the years that I have been doing this for a living, I can only recall a handful of days where cold weather impacted our ability to work.

I was reading an article the other day because I was just alight with glee about how nice this winter has been and found out that nearby coastal areas such as Wilmington, have an average daytime temperature in the winter at around 60 degrees F. This is just perfect if you don't like snow and cold. While New Bern isn't technically on the coast we do have sounds and rivers here that connect to the sea and have a boating community because of that. We enjoy similar temps but not quite that ideal. I guess I now understand why a ton of people, including Michal Jordan, try to live in that city. It's a bit expensive though and I have no intention of moving.

I recall one time recently when I was visiting a friend of mine that lives in upstate New York now and it was just remarkably cold there to the point where simply walking from the car to the house or wherever we were going was just painfully cold. The fact that the wind was whipping around like mad didn't help either. When I did return from that trip, which took place in December a few years back, I was just alarmed at how huge the temperature difference was between the two places.

On the flip side though, I wouldn't want to live somewhere like Florida, where it is never cold at all. I do enjoy my winters, I enjoy hot drinks, fires and especially outdoor fire pits, and BBQ's with friends where staying near the fire is a wonderful respite. I wouldn't want to live somewhere where you never need a jacket to get by.

In the meantime though, I just count my blessings that I just happened to be born in this great state and really love how many things are here. Walking out of my house in the morning and seeing my breath a bit because of the mild cold that is near, but not quite freezing, is just ideal to me. I can't imagine living anywhere else and I think that this is a pretty special way to feel