<!--quoteo(post=376239:date=Jul 18 2009, 06&#58;55 PM:name=zebra)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (zebra &#064; Jul 18 2009, 06&#58;55 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&amp;pid=376239">&lt;strong&gt;QUOTE BELOW&lt;/strong&gt;</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Kevin, South Africa is just as far south from the Equator as Florida is north ...... so the weather is very similar to here... that is why we gravitated to Florida.  No crazy winters and reasonable temperatures in the summer.... nowhere do we have temps hotter than in the 90&#039;s.  I must say since I have got older I sure don&#039;t like the humidity that much, but enjoy the warm weather.  In SA, living on the east coast one would experience the same temps as Florida, on the west coast the similar temps to our West coast here and then the interior is WAY smaller than the States and also goes up to quite a high altitude, so the temps are just perfect.  Most of our East coast has summer rainfall like Florida and the West Coast has a Meditteranean climate with rain in the winter.  <b>Sorry, didn&#039;t mean for it to sound like a geography lesson</b>  <img src="http://www.cruisecrazies.com/community/images/forum/tr-emoticons/biggrin.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":biggrin:" border="0" alt="biggrin.gif" /><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--><br /><br /><br />No problem Jackie, I very much enjoy a geography lesson.  <img src="http://www.cruisecrazies.com/community/images/forum/tr-emoticons/thumbup.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":thumbup:" border="0" alt="thumbup.gif" />