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Not-hurricane season is the winter, difficult for construction, though I don't know exactly about that far south.
by R0b0t1 5y ago
Not-hurricane season is the winter, difficult for construction, though I don't know exactly about that far south.
- btbuildem 5y agoWinter in Louisiana is nice and balmy, we northerners would not call that winter. Above freezing, no snow. Much better conditions for manual labour than the summer there tbh.
- R0b0t1 5y agoOk, fair enough. A lot of civil planning uses really long tail distributions for temp and so on, so I still wonder when stuff is schedulable.
- genewitch 5y agohaha, it does freeze, for days at a time. It hard freezes for at least 2 days, this past winter it hard froze for nearly a week. You may have heard about that in the news, because Texas went offline. Louisiana fared better in the grid area, but we still have rough winters, depending on the year. It's snowed thrice in the past 6 years, too.
- dredmorbius 5y ago"Not-hurricane" season extends from November through May, and potentially into June, in terms of low likelihoods of storms. As others note, Louisiana winters are exceptionally mild, and are generally preferable to summers for outdoor activity. Late August / early September, by marked contrast, is peak hurricane season.
- beerandt 5y agoWinter is the wetter season. Which most people don't realize, because it also rains so much in the summer. But it's so hot in the summer, that evaporation out paces the rain. The driest months are Sept-Oct, which is peak hurricane season.