[RocketDawg]

Originally Posted by PortCity

Ohh really great advice i`ll try it.


It suppose to be 97 dergees in the Mobile area Tuesday with 95-100 % humidity .So we can expect the heat index or how it will feel with the Humidity to be a strong 125 or 130 degrees.


We usually don`t experience 97 degree weather till late July and August.

I fully realized that this is a 10 year old thread that someone resurrected, but Port mentions something that I hear often ... "it'll be 97 with 95% humidity". That sounds awful, and it's quite possible to have such a high temperature with high humidity on the same day ... thing is, it doesn't happen at the same time of the day. The high humidity will be early in the morning when the temperature is in the 70s, and when it's 97 in the afternoon, the humidity will most likely be about 50%. A better measure of how bad it feels is the dewpoint temperature ... 65 is sort of uncomfortable, 70 is lousy, and anything above 75 is terrible.

So yeah, it's hot and humid and uncomfortable, but not THAT uncomfortable.

Heat indices of 165 or so do occur, but they're in the middle east. It's not going to happen in Alabama.

[Southern man]

For some reason, I don’t understand threads that start”Hello, I’m thinking about moving to Ala., Miss.,Ga., etc, How is the temperature, humidity, etc.. I can’t stand hot humid weather”
Everybody knows its hot and humid in the South. Everybody knows its icey cold up north and no one ever asks, how is the ice and snow up north? I grew up knowing its cold and icey up north.

[sacdukeman]

Originally Posted by Southern man

For some reason, I don’t understand threads that start”Hello, I’m thinking about moving to Ala., Miss.,Ga., etc, How is the temperature, humidity, etc.. I can’t stand hot humid weather”
Everybody knows its hot and humid in the South. Everybody knows its icey cold up north and no one ever asks, how is the ice and snow up north? I grew up knowing its cold and icey up north.

I suspect the answer is that there are degrees of heat and humidity, even within the same geographic region. So, even though Asheville, Miami, and Birmingham are all southern cities, they have dissimilar summers re humidity. People try to get a resident's perception of how it compares to other places they've lived.

[BamaDave]

It's the temperature PLUS humidity combination that's the main issue. Asheville is a very humid place, but the average summer highs top out in the mid-80's as opposed to the low 90's in a place like Birmingham with similar humidity levels. The coastal areas do have higher afternoon humidity on average, though, which makes things oppressive.

[sacdukeman]

Yes, I recall going to Charleston in August for a job interview - I was drenched before I entered the front door, just from walking a half mile from where I parked.

Speaking of summer, how often in Birmingham does one get damaging winds or hail from severe thunderstorms? Are the hilly areas less impacted (on the average)?