I decided to transfer to college in South Carolina for a couple of reasons, but the main attraction for me was to trade in the bitter cold in New York for the sunshine year round in the south. Well, I learned very quickly that the weather is super unpredictable in all four seasons in the south.
In the summer thunderstorms come out of no where and are gone as soon as you know it. In fall you have at least three hurricane warnings and one will most likely hit. But then there’s winter, there’s no blizzards like in the north, which I am happy about. But it is annoying how everyday you never know what to expect. Don't trust the meteorologist on the local news station, they are just guessing.
So let me give you a glimpse into what the average week is like in South Carolina and its neighboring states in the southern America. Sunday in early December could be around 65 degrees. A light jacket is needed and the sunshine mixed with the subtle cool breeze equals perfect weather that everyone appreciates. But Monday and Tuesday could reach into the 70s and people start wondering if we skipped winter and spring came early.
The rest of the week flip flops between these two extremes, its either reminiscent of wherever you moved down here from to escape the cold, or it feels like summer when Christmas is right around the corner.
So I guess it could be worse, I could still be in New York freezing, and thank God I'm not in the parts of the country where they already have been digging themselves out of a couple feet of snow since November. The thing that everyone can agree on with me is the fact that winter everywhere means that it gets dark by 5:30 and that sucks for all of us, no matter if we live in the north or south.