lindas
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Post by lindas on Aug 14, 2015 21:36:26 GMT
Without a doubt! I can deal with heat but high humidity just zaps my energy.
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Aug 14, 2015 21:36:48 GMT
YES!! After 10 years of living in the AZ desert, moving here from IL/WI where the temps aren't typically that high, but they have humidity... YES!!! Humidity is worse than heat. To me, anyway. Your stuff is damp, it won't dry all the way, it feels gross... Whenever we go back to the Midwest to visit and it's humid, I find it stifling and difficult to breathe, sometimes, and I always look forward to getting off the plane when we come back to Phoenix.
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Post by maryland on Aug 14, 2015 21:37:12 GMT
I agree! I prefer the heat without the humidity. But I would take the heat and humidity of summer over the cool fall and cold winter anytime! I love summer!
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Post by leannec on Aug 14, 2015 21:37:35 GMT
I live in a very dry province (Alberta) ... we can get pretty hot temps in the summer and very cold temps in the winter but it is always dry ... makes it easier to take I think
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Post by bc2ca on Aug 14, 2015 21:38:23 GMT
Family came out from central CA, where it's often 100. It was 80 hear with 90% humidity. Couple of mild thunderstorms popped up. Today it's 85, maybe 92 this weekend (haven't seen 90 in 2 years). But it's damp and gross. So do you agree or disagree that moderate temps of 80's but almost 100% humidity are worse than 100 degree days and completely dry.For me, that is a true statement but I honestly think it will vary depending on what you are used to. Another big factor for me is whether the temps cool down and humidy drops at night.
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Aug 14, 2015 21:44:11 GMT
if there's still humidity, then the temp doesn't really matter to me. Warm and damp, or cold and damp... it's still damp, and I still don't like it, lol!
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freebird
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Post by freebird on Aug 14, 2015 21:44:32 GMT
visiting AZ in the summer is a cake walk. 100 degrees felt like nothing.
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Post by anxiousmom on Aug 14, 2015 22:03:52 GMT
From the NOAA site:
"It's not the heat, it's the humidity". That's a partly valid phrase you may have heard in the summer, but it's actually both. The heat index, also known as the apparent temperature, is what the temperature feels like to the human body when relative humidity is combined with the air temperature. This has important considerations for the human body's comfort. When the body gets too hot, it begins to perspire or sweat to cool itself off. If the perspiration is not able to evaporate, the body cannot regulate its temperature. Evaporation is a cooling process. When perspiration is evaporated off the body, it effectively reduces the body's temperature. When the atmospheric moisture content (i.e. relative humidity) is high, the rate of perspiration from the body decreases. In other words, the human body feels warmer in humid conditions. The opposite is true when the relative humidity decreases because the rate of perspiration increases. The body actually feels cooler in arid conditions. There is direct relationship between the air temperature and relative humidity and the heat index, meaning as the air temperature and relative humidity increase (decrease), the heat index increases (decrease).
So there is a valid reason that humidity bothers people more than drier environments.
Personally, I live in an area of relative humid conditions, so I am used to it and am used to the heat and fairly high heat indexes. But I know the most complaint I hear from people who aren't from here is about the humidity and how miserable it is, so I realize that not everyone feels the same way.
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Post by anonrefugee on Aug 14, 2015 22:06:30 GMT
I'll take heat over humidity- although a little curl in my hair is nice Hot over cold any day!
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moodyblue
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Post by moodyblue on Aug 14, 2015 22:12:06 GMT
I much prefer dry heat. High humidity sucks.
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Post by originalvanillabean on Aug 14, 2015 22:13:20 GMT
Absolutely. Dry heat is much more bearable than humidity.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2015 22:22:24 GMT
I used to live in NC and can't stand the humidity there. I thought after being there for 13 years, I would get used to it, but no such luck. My makeup melts off my face, I'm always sweaty (yuck) and my hair is atrocious (frizzy), all summer. So I pretty much hibernate May-October. I would like to live somewhere warm (most of the year) but with no humidity. But finding an affordable place is like finding a needle in a hay stack.
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perumbula
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Post by perumbula on Aug 14, 2015 22:28:54 GMT
It depends on how hot it is with the humidity. Of course, I live in an area where we complain about how "muggy" it is if it's at 20%. 75 and humid is lovely. 85 and humid is pushing it. But let me tell you, it doesn't matter how not humid it is if it's 110 degrees outside; It's still freaking hot.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2015 22:35:45 GMT
Cold raining weather over heat. Honestly, I would rather have pouring rain than hot dry or humid weather. Give me 10C and I am happy!
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Post by crazy4scraps on Aug 14, 2015 22:38:29 GMT
if there's still humidity, then the temp doesn't really matter to me. Warm and damp, or cold and damp... it's still damp, and I still don't like it, lol! It never used to bother me nearly as much as it does now, and I *HATE* it. Warm and damp is just sticky, sweaty and gross. Cool/cold and damp makes me feel clammy, achy and gross. It's disgusting. I would take hot and dry any day of the week!
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RosieKat
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Post by RosieKat on Aug 14, 2015 22:40:45 GMT
Neither is good. And I live in Texas. What's wrong with this picture?
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Post by belgravia on Aug 14, 2015 22:46:42 GMT
I loathe humidity. I could never live somewhere with high humidity. My hair would be horrendous all the time!!!
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stittsygirl
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Post by stittsygirl on Aug 14, 2015 22:51:01 GMT
if there's still humidity, then the temp doesn't really matter to me. Warm and damp, or cold and damp... it's still damp, and I still don't like it, lol! This is me. High humidity sucks all the way around. We lived five years in Arizona and eight years in Texas, and I'll take the higher but dryer temps any day over the pressure cooker that is a hot and humid summer.
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Post by coaliesquirrel on Aug 14, 2015 22:51:54 GMT
I would be deliriously happy to have 20%. Today was 88 and passed for "pretty nice out" because it was *only* 49% humidity, after no precip for several days and none in the forecast.
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gina
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Post by gina on Aug 14, 2015 22:53:54 GMT
Humidity is awful. It feels like it could choke you. I'd take a dry, hotter heat any day!
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Post by Peal on Aug 14, 2015 23:09:10 GMT
I've lived where the temps topped 100 on a regular basis and it was dry (CA high desert) and where the temps top 100 on a regular basis and it's humid (Southern TX) They both suck. Hot is hot and it's uncomfortable. There is a point where it doesn't matter anymore.
Now, if the question is mild temps and humidity vs no humidity then the answer is humidity is worse. I loved the lack of humidity in CO. I don't like feeling wet for no good reason.
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Aug 14, 2015 23:10:09 GMT
"I don't like feeling wet for no good reason."
LOL!! this is a good way to put it!!
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Post by ceepea on Aug 14, 2015 23:23:21 GMT
I have never been in dry heat so I can't really compare. I have only lived in NY and Fl. I am used to the humidity here and don't really notice it anymore. I do know that I can not take the cold, that is why I left NY.
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Post by back to *pea*ality on Aug 14, 2015 23:24:26 GMT
It is the humidity that makes you uncomfortable.
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Post by papersilly on Aug 14, 2015 23:25:58 GMT
people always joke by saying "at least it's dry heat" but they are right. humidity just adds insult to injury.
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SabrinaP
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Post by SabrinaP on Aug 14, 2015 23:40:57 GMT
I don't like either. Over 100 even a "dry" heat is awful. Humidity is awful too. Yuck!
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Post by moveablefeast on Aug 14, 2015 23:41:46 GMT
I've lived in California where it's often 95+ with very low humidity and DC where it's often very humid even if the temps are moderate. I totally think middlishly hot and humid is worse than very hot but dry.
I found it easy to be outside in California summers no matter where we went but I don't feel the same way here even though I love hot weather.
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Post by Rachel on Aug 14, 2015 23:42:37 GMT
Hot is hot. I don't care if it's humid or not...if it's hot it's awful.
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Post by padresfan619 on Aug 14, 2015 23:43:44 GMT
Humidity is always worse than dry heat.
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Post by Linda on Aug 14, 2015 23:50:31 GMT
having lived in Southern Arizona for 4 years and now in Florida for 17 years - I have NEVER been as miserable in Arizona even when it reached 115 as I am for most of the summer here in North-central Florida. Give me a dry heat anyday!
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