Is buying direct VDH to mostly use in Florida a terrible plan?

[Brian Noble]

man do I miss Maverick, Top Thrill and SteVe

Siren's Curse is a worthy addition to the portfolio. A defininte upgrade over Wildcat!

 

[Chili327]

Yeah, I'll go to DLR pretty much any month of the year. But I will only go to WDW in winter.

Agreed!!

 

[airjay75]

So much of weather preferences are relative and depend greatly on prior experience and/or expectations.

Personally, if there was a place I could choose to live based on weather alone, it would be coastal Southern California. More sunny, 70 degree, low humidity days than you will find anywhere else in the country. You just get so many days of gorgeous, sunny, open-the-window sort of days. It is glorious.

But, there are some things people from outside that area don't always realize. In the entire eastern half of the country, summer is associated with warm to hot weather that is fairly humid. Pool and Beach season begins on Memorial Day and ends on Labor Day. When they travel to coastal California in June and find that June Gloom keeps much of the day cloudy and cool with ocean temperatures downright chilly, they are often shocked. I've always loved the Mark Twain quote: "The coldest winter I ever spent was summer in San Francisco." SoCal isn't quite as bad as SF, but what is traditional summer in much of the country is different on the coast of California.

And I'll say this for Florida - way better beach/pool/water park weather. There is a reason there aren't many water parks in California. And, although I don't exactly love the bathtub ocean temperatures Florida can get during the summertime, you can get decent beach weather where you can actually go in the ocean year-round. Especially when you're coming from a northern climate, heading to Florida during winter or early spring often feels like you're getting a taste of summer before summer actually begins, and that is quite a nice feeling too.

 

[ClaraOswald]

Yeah...I hate summer weather and melt when it's over 70 degrees. I sweat my butt off in Anaheim in June. Though not nearly as bad as Anaheim in September and even October.

 

[PolyRob]

I run warm, but WDW cold is a unique kind of cold! The humidity is bone chilling when it sets in. I've had it happen a few times in December. It's also very unpleasant when you dress in layers and need to start stripping the layers in a ride queue when it's stifling. At least the AC is a reprieve from the heat in the warmer months.

I'll take any temperature over a rainy park day though.

 

[Brian Noble]

There is a reason there aren't many water parks in California.

That's the same reason that my son's first two purchases after starting grad school at UCLA were: a surfboard ... and a 3/2 wetsuit.

It will be interesting to see if The Blob has him wearing the suit less often this year.

 

[atthebeachclub]

That's the same reason that my son's first two purchases after starting grad school at UCLA were: a surfboard ... and a 3/2 wetsuit.

It will be interesting to see if The Blob has him wearing the suit less often this year.

3/2 is mandatory down there in non summer season. Better than WA…you need a 5/6 there!

 

[Brian Noble]

He's a bit of a hothouse flower; any day below about 65 is too cold for him. He was complaining about winter LA weather his first winter there. I'm like: Dude, you grew up in Michigan. His sister, on the other hand, went to grad school at Wisconsin. If the day is above 60, she is not happy. It's like having the Heat Miser and Cold Miser for kids, without the benefit of being Mother (or Father) Nature.

 

[airjay75]

He's a bit of a hothouse flower; any day below about 65 is too cold for him. He was complaining about winter LA weather his first winter there. I'm like: Dude, you grew up in Michigan. His sister, on the other hand, went to grad school at Wisconsin. If the day is above 60, she is not happy. It's like having the Heat Miser and Cold Miser for kids, without the benefit of being Mother (or Father) Nature.

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That is hilarious.

 

[Brian Noble]

Interestingly, each of them only had one viable PhD offer when they graduated---it just so happened that each one was at a reputable program in a part of the country that was a perfect fit, weather-wise! Someone was looking out for them.