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Compared to Chicago and the Twin Cities, DC winters are mild. Compared to Atlanta and Houston, DC winters are frigid. DC gets the best or worst of both worlds.
Yes it is. If it's 83 with no humidity, that is cool for middle of July.
I'm confused. You are saying low humidity but when I pull up the current DC weather the dew point is 65. That's approaching tropical territory. The humidity might only be 64% right now but that dew point can hardly make it comfortable.
Most people seem to confuse the distinction between humidity and the impact of the actual dew point on temperatures and mugginess.
I'm confused. You are saying low humidity but when I pull up the current DC weather the dew point is 65. That's approaching tropical territory. The humidity might only be 64% right now but that dew point can hardly make it comfortable.
Most people seem to confuse the distinction between humidity and the impact of the actual dew point on temperatures and mugginess.
I was saying there have been days this summer where the humidity was so low that it was nonexistent. We've had days where it was 80-85 with 30% humidity with dewpoints in the lower 50s and even upper 40s in the suburbs. That's comfortable. The Fourth of July weekend this year was probably the most comfortable it's been in quite some time.
Compared to Chicago and the Twin Cities, DC winters are mild. Compared to Atlanta and Houston, DC winters are frigid. DC gets the best or worst of both worlds.
Atlanta can get cold although I think it's rare. I know it got real cold over Christmas and New Years this past year when we were there. This past Winter was one of the worst for parts of the US since the 70's though. That -30 mess in the TC's will have you hitting Expedia real quick like.
I was saying there have been days this summer where the humidity was so low that it was nonexistent. We've had days where it was 80-85 with 30% humidity with dewpoints in the lower 50s and even upper 40s in the suburbs. That's comfortable. The Fourth of July weekend this year was probably the most comfortable it's been in quite some time.
Gotcha. Makes sense. That is good weather you are talking about.
You didn't mention DC. Steaming tropical swamp in the summer.
The VA/MD line is way too far north to be a "steaming tropical swamp" given it's at the northern edge of what's considered the "sub-tropical zone" and nowhere near the list of the worst if one has traveled around the SE and East. July's average high so far has been 89 degrees. They'd kill for that in FL, LA and TX...just to name a few.
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1. St. Louis, Missouri (I live here)
2. Phoenix, Arizona (the weather is the main detractor here)
3. Death Valley
4. Las Vegas, Nevada (it isn't as bad as Phoenix at least, and it's actually liveable as I've been there during the summer and survived. I can survive 105-110 as it's rarely humid here, but it's still uncomfortable)
5. Dallas, Texas
6. New Orleans, Louisiana (it might only hit 90-91 there on average, but the humidity makes it feel as if it's 114).
7. Anywhere in South Carolina.
8. Denver, Colorado
9. Los Angeles, California
10. Birmingham, Alabama (I can survive it)
11. Atlanta, Georgia (it's miserable)
12. Miami, Florida
13. San Antonio, Texas
14. Houston, Texas
15. El Paso, Texas (at least the humidity isn't that bad)
16. Albuquerque, New Mexico (I love the weather in Santa Fe however)
17. Tucson, Arizona
18. Kansas City, Kansas or Missouri
19. Salt Lake City, Utah
20. Redding, California (I had to visit it one time on a long road trip, and it felt miserable).
Which cities have the worst weather during the summer in your opinion?
Orlando, which has to rank among the top three in my opinion for worst summer weather. So far for July the average high has hovered around 93 with typical humidity readings around 65%, which makes for heat indices around 103.
Any city in the middle of the country from Texas to Minnesota is miserable. In that central corridor, you get oppressive heat, humidity, thunderstorms and hailstorms, tornadoes, and in the North terrible mosquitoes.
Please be specific in what you define as "the middle of the country." Is the definition limited to the Great Plains, or does it include the entire region between the Appalachians and the Rockies? What would be your examples of some cities that lie in your quote-on-quote "central corridor?"
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