As I write this, the weather is crisp and cold, with snow covering the ground out here in Hoboken, New Jersey. It is 34 degrees with wind chills of 18 miles and hour, the snow sometimes switching to sleet and rain that freezes on the skin when the temperature drops at night. It makes one want to give up smoking, honestly, because who wants to stand out in the freezing rain letting their fingers go numb from holding a cigarette? It takes real dedication to let the cold wind tear at your skin simply to get your nicotine fix, but I suppose that’s why electronic cigarettes come in handy for so many people.
New Jersey has a blizzard warning on top of everything else, active for the next 24 hours, covering as far as New York city, Southern Westchester County, and the coastal portions of Northeast New Jersey. The warning is for the hazard of heavy snow and strong witn with the possibility of accumulating up to 14 inches of snow with drifts that may go higher.
Gusts of wind may be as heavy as 45 miles an hour and the temperature will fall into the 20s at night. Visibility will be limited, and driving in New York and New Jersey is already a laborious task due to overpopulation even when it is nice and sunny out, so I don’t suppose I’ll be going out with friends tonight. I think I shall simply make hot cocoa and update my blogs instead. Maybe the cat will curl up near my keyboard and keep me company.
The weather isn’t too bad when it isn’t winter, though we do have a bit more rain than the average American city, just about 8 inches more a year. And we only have about an inch more a year more snow than the average for the United States. We actually have more sunny days than a lot of other cities.
According to BestPlaces.net we have higher comfort index than the average of 44. Ours is 46, and the higher the number, the better a place is to live in as far as climate goes. During summer, our high is in the low 80s and in January, our lows tend to be in the low 20s. All in all, it isn’t a bad place to live if you don’t mind having a bit of snow in the winter and you can stand the heat in the summer. I have lived in so many cities, and the weather here fares among the better of the cities I have lived in.
It is certainly nicer than the weather in Nashville thanks to all of the tornadoes that pass through that area of Tennessee, but I do happen to prefer the weather in Santa Monica, California, because I like for it to be around 70 degrees and I like having the ocean within driving distance so that I can go swimming as well as surfing. There is absolutely no way to surf in New Jersey, but that’s to be expected.
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