I am a lot worse on stormy, damp, dark days. I almost always need extra medication on those days. Not sure that I want to move to louisiana though!

My husband travels there on business a lot and he loves it because everyone can pronounce and spell our last name (he is French-Canadian). We would both miss the seasonal changes too much to move.

I remember when weather forecasts always made a big deal of mentioning the barometric pressure. They only seem to do that during hurricanes now. Too much high tech stuff with all the moving maps, etc. obscuring the information.

Nope, I would not want to move to Louisiana either. (No offense to anyone who is from there). I like the four seasons but winter less and less as CMT has taken so much from me so I cannot enjoy winter anymore.

Not only do my wrists crack I hurt all of the time but much more when there are pressure changes. I can always tell when rain, snow, you name it are coming.

I kind of think that moving to dry warm areas would be better for pn victims, since less humidity and less rainstorms are the norm. But don't know if the heat has an effect on temperature either.

What seems odd is that lots of older people retire to Florida, but Florida, (from what I see on TV) seems plagued by ravishing rainstorms and high humidity -not ideal weather for old folks I would think.

Yes, there is less humidity in the warm dry areas. However, the dry conditions, and they are dry, suck the moisture right out of a person. There is a T-shirt I saw which had two skeletons sitting next to a rock and it said, "But it's a dry heat". How true that one is. In those warm dry areas there still are pressure changes and so they do cause aches and pains and hurting for some people.

As far as Florida, I guess some people like it and others don't. And it depends where you are in Florida. Whatever works, works.

We were in las Vegas and Hoover Dam in July five years ago. Since we live at the northern edge of the Chesapeake the humidity here is terrible so I always believed the dry heat saying, but it was 115 degrees, and it hit you like a slap in the face the minute you set foot outside. We drove to the Grand Canyon and the temperature dropped 40 degrees, it was amazing. There are obviously limits to the benefit of low humidity. We are going to Vegas this May to drive to Bryce and Zion national parks, that was our 25th anniversary trip and this is our 30th. I hope the weather is more moderate in May than July.

The weather should be fine. We were there in February a few years ago and it was great then too. Las Vegas is certainly a hot place in July but a decent place in the winter. However, I would not want to live there either. Las Vegas has changed tremendously since the time we went there for our conventions. Too many people and not a safe place to be anymore. At the time we were going you never had to worry about walking anywhere. Crime just didn't happen. Kids were not allowed on the game floors, people dressed to the hilt and great stars and shows to see. Not so much anymore. Everything changes I guess.

Here are some elevation statistics of different parts. Grand Canyon is 7,000 ft. depending where you are so it would be cooler than say Las Vegas. Las Vegas is 2,030 ft. Hoover Dan is 1,232 ft. Henderson, outside of Las Vegas is 2,402 ft. Boulder, outside of Las Vegas is 2,500 ft.

Enjoy your trip.