:laugh::laugh: you just about made me die! I actually just experienced something similar this past August I went to Jamaica for my grandmothers 85th birthday, and yeah us Canadians arnt cut out for that kind of heat! 3 of us had heat stroke and the rest all blistered! and that was with spf 100 sunblock!
neadless to say were not designed to handle that sort of heat!!:laugh:
LOL - Yes if Jamaica gave you problems you definitely don't want to go to Texas in summer. We go to Jamaica to cool off. :realhot:
But here are the serious facts. Jamaica enjoys a fairly consistent year round temp.Hence the "tropical paradise". The fact is that the temperature just doesn't vary that much and it is the comfort zone. I have had a neighbor die from heat stroke. Actually South Padre is not that bad for reasons I will get into shortly. The real killers are mid Texas, Arizona and New Mexico.
Here's why I think you had problems in Jamaica and a few observations. The reason Texas weather is so brutal is that we are in the middle of N and S America. (As are Arizona and New Mexico).Jamaica is an island country surrounded by the great equalizer-an ocean. It gets pretty dameded cold here in the winter sometimes because the wind is out of the north. Gee- thanks Canada have you got something else more useful you would li
Then in the summer we get wind out of the south bringing us all that South American heat.:devil01::flames:
But Jamaica has a beautiful year round clime. You didn't say how hot it was but I'd.guess under 90° and certainly less than 100°f. South Padre Island doesn't get as hot as here ( ocean waters and all...)
But there is only 8° of seperation in (lattitude? ...N/South) between S.Padre and Jamaica, there are @ 32° between Jamaica and Ontario. The fiersness of the sun as that angle decreases is substantial. It might not bother you standing next to a hearing a heat lamp at a fast food joint but UNDER one?
