<p>Do people wear sweats or dress up a little for class? Is it preppy or laid back? Just curious- any information would be good to know.</p>
<p>There’s a mixture of both. Some people will show up looking like they’ve just rolled out of bed while others will show up looking pretty preppy. There’s not one style everyone abides by–you can basically wear whatever you want and you won’t stick out.</p>
<p>My d echos jph093’s sentiments.</p>
<p>how many months do you need warm clothes for and to what extent?</p>
<p>That’s a good question… I’ve never been to New Orleans and have hardly ever left Arizona so I have no idea what to prepare for if I end up going to Tulane! My dad says it never gets too cold and the heat is accompanied by humidity, as expected.</p>
<p>It varies, starting about this time of year. The first 6 weeks or so of classes it will be very warm. Then it will moderate to very pleasant temperatures most of the time, and starting usually around Thanksgiving it can get pretty chilly. This year it got chilly a tad early, but basically about what one would expect. It will sometimes dip into the upper 30’s to low 40’s, and then within a day or three be back in the 60’s and 70’s. It will do that until about March. March is usually very pleasant, as is the first part of April. Then it starts really warming up again, just in time for finals.</p>
<p>The thing about cooler temps in New Orleans is that because of the humidity, it can feel colder than the temp says. That damp cold kind of goes through an ordinary sweater, you need something that keeps the damp air out. It isn’t the dry cold you are used to in Wisconsin.</p>
<p>Bowler, I would have to slightly disagree with your Dad. It can get fairly chilly occasionally, it just doesn’t usually last too long. It only snows on average once every decade or so. Something like that.</p>
<p>He is from Chicago so what’s cold to me probably isn’t cold to him, haha. The weather sounds fairly similar temperature-wise to where I live except for the humidity. It’s mostly dry heat/dry cold here.</p>
<p>Oh yeah, nothing like Chicago, it gets brutal there. You are right about the AZ-NOLA comparison, but that relative humidity makes ALL the difference in the world.</p>
<p>I also heard that theres a “rainy season”? Do students really need to gear up for that with rain jackets, boots, umbrellas etc? Or is it just as freqently rainy there as any place else?</p>
<p>Very rainy, more than most of the USA. It is considered a semi-tropical climate. There are palm trees, etc. Not like southern Florida, obviously, but similar when it comes to rain. Rain boots are actually quite the fashion statement with the Tulane women. I think the bookstore alone probably has a few dozen styles, and between the rest of the city and the internet there are hundreds if not thousands to choose from.</p>
<p>During the warmest weather, it is often the typical pattern of hot days, rain in the afternoon, feels like a sauna, then start all over. This is not the majority of the school year. But it does rain a lot.</p>
<p>During my sons first year, he never wore his rain boots but he used three different umbrellas (he lost one and broke one).
He told me the water floods the streets between the sections of campus, so if you get boots, you would want them on the high side.
He also used both a light and heavier rain jacket. He ended up buying the second rain jacket for Mardi Gras and he says you can get a lot of swag if you watch any parades in the rain!</p>
<p>Nola is hot, humid and rainy – like Florida or Hawaii but not quite as warm in the winter. Not gray, cold and rainy like Seattle. </p>
<p>My kid has rain boots, but I think mostly wears flip flops. A sweatshirt is needed (i) sometimes for outside in the winter and (ii) often for inside in the fall and spring. TU really cranks up the AC in all its buildings.</p>
<p>Homecoming weekend first week of November was typical. Warm and sunny the whole time (shorts and t shirts) except for a 2 hour stretch on Sunday with buckets of rain.</p>
<p>Thank you, everybody. Really helpful.</p>