So hot. (Chicago, El Paso, Dix: live, trees, areas)

[Drover]

Like I mentioned over in the Wisconsin thread... the reason I live this far north is so that I don't have to deal with weather like this. It's hotter than 50 Hells out there. It wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for the 347% humidity. When it hit 98 back in May and the humidity was somewhere around 23%, that was fine. It felt like it was in the mid-80s. But throw in this god-awful humidity and it's just downright crippling. I don't know how people live in Florida or Texas year-round, A/C be damned.

[marothisu]

Originally Posted by Drover

Like I mentioned over in the Wisconsin thread... the reason I live this far north is so that I don't have to deal with weather like this. It's hotter than 50 Hells out there. It wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for the 347% humidity. When it hit 98 back in May and the humidity was somewhere around 23%, that was fine. It felt like it was in the mid-80s. But throw in this god-awful humidity and it's just downright crippling. I don't know how people live in Florida or Texas year-round, A/C be damned.

Minnesota is a lottttttttttt worse for humidity than Chicago, so feel a little lucky about that part.

Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, California, etc are mostly dry heat. That's how people live there. I've been in the valley of LA when it was over 110 degrees and I didn't feel that terribly. It felt like when it's 90-93 degrees in Minnesota. Add humidity into that, and yeah. It's the same as in Saudi Arabia. It's a dry heat, so it's not as bad as you think.

[Alacran]

Do people in Dubai walk around

[Drover]

Originally Posted by marothisu

Minnesota is a lottttttttttt worse for humidity than Chicago, so feel a little lucky about that part.

Uhh.... no. Average relative humidity between Chicago and MPLS is nearly identical.

Originally Posted by marothisu

Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, California, etc are mostly dry heat. That's how people live there. I've been in the valley of LA when it was over 110 degrees and I didn't feel that terribly. It felt like when it's 90-93 degrees in Minnesota. Add humidity into that, and yeah. It's the same as in Saudi Arabia. It's a dry heat, so it's not as bad as you think.

Maybe the western edge of Texas is a dry heat. The rest of it is part of the same stifling Gulf Coast drenched-air sweat-inducing summer Hell as the rest of the Dixie South, or at least the low-elevation portions of the Dixie South.

[lenniel]

The global warming fanatics are doing a happy dance (that is, until we get some 60 degree days in August)

[Drover]

Originally Posted by lenniel

The global warming fanatics are doing a happy dance (that is, until we get some 60 degree days in August)

Heh. A couple years ago I went to a Bears pre-season game in mid-August and I was freezing my ass off. It was ludicrous.

[marothisu]

Originally Posted by Drover

Uhh.... no. Average relative humidity between Chicago and MPLS is nearly identical.

That's awesome and all, but I hope you realize I grew up in Minnesota for the first 18 years of my life, and spent 3 summers there during college, and a month after graduation in the summer. Chicago is nothing compared to Minnesota humidity on average. But then again, what do I know? I must have been hibernating during 21 summers and just making things up.

[Drover]

Originally Posted by marothisu

That's awesome and all, but I hope you realize I grew up in Minnesota for the first 18 years of my life, and spent 3 summers there during college, and a month after graduation in the summer. Chicago is nothing compared to Minnesota humidity on average. But then again, what do I know? I must have been hibernating during 21 summers and just making things up.

Unless you're a weather station, your anecdotes aren't particularly useful. You're entitled to your own perceptions, but the historical data doesn't lie.

[marothisu]

Originally Posted by Drover

Unless you're a weather station, your anecdotes aren't particularly useful. You're entitled to your own perceptions, but the historical data doesn't lie.

I didn't grow up in Minneapolis FWIW, and Minnesota is a lot bigger than the Minneapolis area. You might think it's not particularly useful, but I tend to personally listen to people who actually lived for many, many years in an area. You can choose to not listen to me all you want, but I've lived in both places, and Minnesota is a lot worse in the summers than Chicago humidity wise.

Kuala Lumpur's humidity is also historically not much higher than Chicago's, but it's a LOT worse there. Then again, I guess you wouldn't listen to anybody from Malaysia who thinks Chicago is a walk in the park compared to KL because you have your data, and they can't possibly know what they're talking about. Look it up, it's not much different, mean relative humidity, but if you ACTUALLY go there, you realize it feels much worse.

[Drover]

OK marothisu. If you say so.