alexandraerin

At some point in the not-too-distant point, I found myself comparing the temperatures in Hagerstown, MD to the temperatures in Omaha, NE, and found that while Omaha tended to be slightly more extreme... a few degrees hotter in the summer, a few degrees cooler in the winter... they weren't all that different.

Of course, temperature is only part of the story. This past winter, pictures from Omaha and other parts of the great plains region were being used as the face of the snowpocalypse on national news sites. And the summer? Well, today I checked the weather conditions in both Omaha and Hagerstown. Omaha: 95 degrees. Hagerstown: 93 degrees. Not that different, right? Hagerstown heat index: 96 degrees. Omaha heat index: 111 degrees That's 1-1-1. Three ones.

When the effective temperature can also double as a pretty good poker hand, something's seriously wrong.