Phoenix vs Miami vs Houston (state, places, cons, raise)
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I live in Phoenix and dry heat or not the summers are unbearable. Today was our last day of triple digit temperatures. I was born and raised here and I hate the summers here. If it actually cooled off at night the summers wouldn't be so bad but the city and metro area has gotten so massive and become a concrete jungle that it doesn't cool off at all when the sun goes down(heat island effect). However when my relativesin Ohio are crying about the winters I brag about how great our weather is in the winter time. Needless to say there's a trade off...4 months of Godawful heat for 8mon of gorgeous/warm outdoor weather. I've never been to Houston but I know their summers are humid like Miami but at least Miami gets rain to cool things off and you can always cool off at the beach in either city. I'm not a native of either city so I can't speak for them.
I live in Phoenix and dry heat or not the summers are unbearable. Today was our last day of triple digit temperatures. I was born and raised here and I hate the summers here. If it actually cooled off at night the summers wouldn't be so bad but the city and metro area has gotten so massive and become a concrete jungle that it doesn't cool off at all when the sun goes down(heat island effect). However when my relativesin Ohio are crying about the winters I brag about how great our weather is in the winter time. Needless to say there's a trade off...4 months of Godawful heat for 8mon of gorgeous/warm outdoor weather. I've never been to Houston but I know their summers are humid like Miami but at least Miami gets rain to cool things off and you can always cool off at the beach in either city. I'm not a native of either city so I can't speak for them.
So does Houston. Both cities have very wet summers.
For the thread topic, I picked Phoenix. I'm someone who's just as if not more uncomfortable in dry heat as I am in humid heat. Constant, uninterrupted sunshine, while it's 108 outside, is terrible.
I think Dallas is more miserable than any of those 3. High temps (not as high phoenix), solid humidity (not as bad as Houston or Miami but up there), less clouds (than Houston or Miami), and no sea breezes. Houston and Miami have the coast (well an hour for Houston) and Phoenix has the shade or a couple hour trip to the mountains. Dallas really has no relief unless you count AC.
I think Dallas is more miserable than any of those 3. High temps (not as high phoenix), solid humidity (not as bad as Houston or Miami but up there), less clouds (than Houston or Miami), and no sea breezes. Houston and Miami have the coast (well an hour for Houston) and Phoenix has the shade or a couple hour trip to the mountains. Dallas really has no relief unless you count AC.
Dallas has several large lakes in the area that's about it.
Wide open prairie that gets scorched in the summer time.
In the dead of winter Dallas looks depressing with all those brown trees.
I grew up about an hour north of miami, so the climate was obviously quite similar. Never been to Texas or Arizona, so I can't say for certain about the other cities in question, but I can't imagine anything being much worse than south florida.
The summer can be absolutely brutal. You feel like you've been beaten up. And theres no night time cool down, its humid to the point where you literally feel trapped in the air. Its not as tiring like the sun is, but its gross and sticky. You just sit there outside, you're not even moving, then you realize, wow, I'm sweating for no reason. And don't even get me started on the mosquitoes. Not seeing a daytime high lower than 80 for about 9 months (with about half that being in the 90s with heat indexes 10 degrees higher due to humidity) sucks. In the winter time, we dont get a month or two of cold. We get a few days of a few cold fronts spread across the two months of winter. Those "cold" days are absolutely gorgeous, highs of 60ish, lows of about 45-50. And then its gone.
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