I have had it with Canadian winters and, since I am now retired I am considering a move South. A town named Woodstock in central Georgia has a couple of homes for sale. But the extreme difference in weather (frome Winnipeg) has me wondering what it would be like to build a MRR there. Would there be humidity or temp problems. I am thinking a separate building or the garage.
It can get as high as 105f in mid summer and as low as 20f in mid winter is the norm around these parts but the big thing is hobby support for me as I do must of my hobby shopping on-line. Other then that the humidity would take some getting use to but its not bad.
If you were going to build on a separate building, plan on installing a HVAC system, otherwise you are likely to have problems, besides it would be unbearable in the summer. Some homes will have a heated/air conditioned garage, you should look for one of these if a garage layout was the way you wanted to go. Not sure about basements, some locations in Northern GA could have them, but I’m betting central GA won’t because of the water table.
Woodstock is actually in the northern third of the state. Basements are common in the area. If you can find a house to your liking with a basement, you may get by with a dehumidifier but HVAC would be best. As far as building the model railroad in any space above grade, definitely go with HVAC.
Weather wise, seems mid-January to mid-March is the worst of the cold (teens(f) are rare but not unheard of) and early June to the middle of September is the worst of the heat (ninety is common with strings of 100+ days possible but not common). Humidity is just a fact of life during summer in the South. Weathermen like to add to the misery by stating the heat index, which is the actual temp inflated to compensate for the humidity %. (The summer version of winter’s wind chill.)
Jay
Bruce, I think you will notice a difference, but it won’t be huge. Winterpeg gets hot muggy weather from end-June until mid-September if my seven years posted to 17 Wing in the early 90’s is anything to go by.
You’ll feel right at home with the skitters, although I am sure the Peg beats Georgia hands down. I recall the summer of '93, during the Mississippi floods, the City staff who took readings from mosquito traps at the edge of the city counted 2500 of them in several traps along the northern limb, near Mountain Park. “Nuisance level”, at which they would begin night-time spraying of neighbourhoods, was when there were 25 in a trap overnight. Quite a disparity, wouldn’t you say?
-Crandell