Is San Antonio, TX Heat The Same As Glendale, AZ Heat ? (people, Phoenix)

[Cathy4017]

Originally Posted by Pancho-Villa

Even worse wet sauna air!

Very true, but it always amazes me the number of posters on here who deny this for SA, Austin, etc....!

[unintentionallyfunny]

Because some of us have actually been in a sauna and don't need hyperbole to get a point across.

[Buffyfan]

I have a friend who grew up in SA, but moved to Mesa, AZ. She said it was unbearable in AZ. No one really goes outside during the daytime during the summer.

[eastontracks]

Everyone's opinion is different but Arizona is worse imo. During the day, they can both be pretty bad but for one to say SA is much worse is laughable to me.

Regardless of a dry heat, Phoenix heat when about 105+ is relentless and is pounding you. The sun feels the same distance as the clouds. Plus at night it doesn't cool off and still has warm air unlike SA which cools down a little.

Heat in SA isn't bad, maybe 10-15 days where it could be really hot. I also don't understand those that complain about the humidity bc that's not bad either. Especially compared to Houston. Overall, humidity or dry heat, both are unbearable when it gets to a certain point. Phoenix still wins on my unbearable meter lol, as I give it about 40-50 days, Houston 20-30 and SA 10-20. In SA, a high of 95 and low of 75 isn't unbearable...

[huckster]

"But it's a dry heat." Hyperbole is not needed unintentional. Death Valley is a very comfortable place,
because it is...dry heat.

Originally Posted by unintentionallyfunny

Because some of us have actually been in a sauna and don't need hyperbole to get a point across.

[unintentionallyfunny]

Originally Posted by huckster

"But it's a dry heat." Hyperbole is not needed unintentional. Death Valley is a very comfortable place,
because it is...dry heat.

An oven is a dry heat too. I wouldn't want to stick my head in a 115 degree oven.

The over dramatic "sauna" comparison is just absolutely hysterical. It tells me the person making that comment is a.dramatic person who thinks five minute wait times are "literally forever" and other such over dramatic claims.

[en28so]

I was in Phoenix AZ last week, and to me, that dry heat was worse than here in SA. Plus, AZ looks like a desert with no greenery anywhere, except the mountains that we also visited. Cheers.

[Pancho-Villa]

Of course you're going to say it worse there. Just as a good deal of those who live in PHX will say it's worse here in SA. Funny how these things go..

[Danbo1957]

San Antonio as a steam bath at times is unbearable. Drove by Broadway Bank on Loop 410 one night in late August, 2011, 11:30pm: 97 degrees on the sign, with the car windshield fogging up. Wanted. To. Die.

[AZLiam]

Originally Posted by Buffyfan

I have a friend who grew up in SA, but moved to Mesa, AZ. She said it was unbearable in AZ. No one really goes outside during the daytime during the summer.

Well, it sounds like your friend doesn't leave her home very often. Many of the rest of us in AZ actually do leave our homes for our jobs, etc. Yes, it gets hot in Phoenix, but there is a considerable difference between standing out in the hot sun and standing in the shade vs. other cities with high humidity. Having lived in TX for quite a few years, I know that the shade doesn't "shade" you from humidity. Furthermore, it doesn't reach 115 each day like some of you erroneously believe and the weather can be sometimes unpredictable (it's currently 79 degrees).