Is San Antonio, TX Heat The Same As Glendale, AZ Heat ? (compare, highest)

[spaceage007]

I moved to AZ for 5 months last year, and it is HOOOOOT. I mean hot. I lived in SA most of my life, so I know Texas heat. You would have thought I was from Canada with the way I was acting. Dry heat...wet heat...WHAT...man hot is hot and AZ is the devil's taint. My first night there....no joke...101 degrees and midnight. I moved back before I could see what a AZ winter was like.....mabe its like Brazile in July

[AirForceDoc]

In AZ we used to say " If you can't stand the summers you don't deserve the winters. " Winters are lovely and very popular with the golfing scene.

[crazedchef]

Hi,

I hate to think about what is coming up for me this summer after the last two. Sitting here in Baghdad, the hottest I have been through was 138 deg. f. (August 2006). I would love summer 2007 to only get to 110 deg.

Laughed at what 210 said about the oven, I always compared being over here to walking inside of a giant laundry drier.

Funny thing is, San Antonio is on the same Longitude as Baghdad, thier weather is very similar most of the year.

Sorry, if I got off track, the grass is always greener.

crazedchef

[Guerilla]

SA heat is more humid than Arizona heat.

[jules07]

(newbie here, been reading for a couple of weeks, but this one strikes a chord.)
I grew up in Phoenix and couldn't wait to get out. After about 18 years of oppresive heat, I'd had enough. Then moved to "paradise" (Huntington Beach, Ca) and have now been in San Antonio about 8-1/2 years. I can definately tell you... Phoenix is more difficult. Sure it's "dry heat", but would you stand in an oven that's set at 120 degrees? (You'll sometimes see locals wearing t-shirts with two skeletons on lawn chairs, with the caption "yeah, but it's a dry heat!" hee hee!) That's what it's like. So far, most folks have mentioned 110 degrees, but truthfully, most days from mid-June to late August get well over 110. There are many 115 and several 117. It's a *huge* difference! And like somebody else said, it's still 100 at midnight. 100 degrees with dry heat during the day is quite manageble, 110 with dry heat and nights that cool down to the 70's is delightful, 117 until 5:00, and then only "down" to 100 all night - unbearable. Took me several years to get somewhat used to the humidity here (still not totally used to it), but you don't hear daily on the news about some senior citizen that died of heat exhaustion from trying to work in their yard at noon here!

[1StarRanch]

I was raised in Yuma, Az for 18 years. For those that don't know, Yuma is one of the hottest places in the states, next to Death Valley. I've been in SA for 9 years and would much prefer SA heat over Az any day.

But lets be realistic, I am in the heat very little during the summer, I get in my AC having vehicle, come to my AC having office, go to my AC having home. I plan around the 2p.m - 6p.m in the summer time and don't feel it too much.

1*Ranch

[ShaneSA]

Originally Posted by AirForceDoc

Hey Everybody,

I lived in Phoenix, AZ for 4 years (in Glendale, precisely, the hottest City in AZ). I will tell you now (having lived in San Antonio for 2 summers) that S.A. is BY FAR nothing compared to the hellish heat of Arizona. San Antonio has nothing on Phx. That 'dry heat' arguement is bogus. S.A. humidity is not real humidity. Go to Florida or Alabama or Louisiana or Houston (real gulf regions) and yeah, humidiy is a factor. S.A. has great weather, feels like Malibu in the Summer time (I grew up in Malibu).

Hope this helps.

I have to agree with Doc. I visited AZ frequently on business and loved it when I returned to the cool of SA.
I vacationed in Florida and left after 2 days. I would just sit there and sweat, that's bad. At least here there is a repreve with AC and getting into the shade if your outside.
I love the weather in Sa, the heat in the summer and the usual lack of cold in winter.

[gigi927]

I live in Austin now and lived in Phoenix for 4 years. The heat is much more unbearable in Phoenix because during the hot months (usually 6 months) it can be well over 100 by 8 a.m. and will still be over 100 at midnight. It NEVER feels cool. While the humidity is much higher here in central Texas, I've found that it doesn't get up to the 100 mark until at least around lunchtime on the really hot days, so you can try to escape out in the a.m. and do a few things. Much more tolerable and livable - no contest.

People who say they've spent a few days in Phoenix in the 110+ degree weather don't really understand what it's like to spend a whole summer there. I was a total sun worshipper before living in Phoenix and it was never "too hot" for me. Then I spent my first summer in Phoenix and I couldn't believe people actually chose to live in that weather!

[Hawaii_Corri]

How long is the heat wave in SA. ??

[Century25]

Originally Posted by crazedchef

Hi,

I hate to think about what is coming up for me this summer after the last two. Sitting here in Baghdad, the hottest I have been through was 138 deg. f. (August 2006). I would love summer 2007 to only get to 110 deg.

Laughed at what 210 said about the oven, I always compared being over here to walking inside of a giant laundry drier.

Funny thing is, San Antonio is on the same Longitude as Baghdad, thier weather is very similar most of the year.

Sorry, if I got off track, the grass is always greener.

crazedchef

Ahh.. 'ya know what..? I am sort of a 'weather nut' - I know a bit about climates & world temp's.. Just fyi, the highest temp on earth.. officially.. was 'only' 136 occurred in 1922 in Al' Aziziya, Libya, and in the USA it reached 134 at Death Valley. Now, you might see 138 in your tent. It would be just as hot here in AZ. Officially, Phoenix has recorded 122 - in the shade. All 'official' temps are shade temps. But.. in the sun.. and we have little shade here.. it easily reaches 150.. 160.. and even a bit higher. On an oven thermometer.. the only one capable of reading those temps

I did see that Baghdad had a little snow last winter.. something I have never seen in Phoenix.

It has also reached 100 in March here

Hopefully, you are safely back from Iraq by now