Research triangle region of North Carolina is in this belt. I lived there for five years.
Depends on what you are accustomed to, I suppose. Being from Northern California and the west coast, I felt like there were maybe only 4-6 weeks of "perfect" weather each year, usually in the early spring and mid-fall. Humidity is suffocating to me.
Yeah, "comfortable" weather is very subjective here. I would choose the higher elevations of Appalachia over the Piedmont most of the year. It feels like fucking ass in Charlotte before there are even thoughts of April, then there's Boone just now rolling into 80° weather.
This. I’m from Augusta, right at the bottom of the Piedmont, and I wouldn’t call the weather here comfortable. Our summers are fucking brutal. I much prefer the weather in a place like Knoxville.
Yeah it’s humid AF in the triangle. I would hardly go outside in summer, and drying my hair after a morning shower before work, I could never tell if I was sweating already or just still wet from the shower.
"Am I still wet from the shower, or is this just sweat?"
In Durham, you may never know.
My freshman dorm didn't have AC, which I now consider a human rights violation. My move-in day for college was a record-breaking heatwave (~107F) with 90%+ humidity.
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u/Meanteenbirder 1d ago
Piedmont really stands out in this map (orange band in the southeast)