Humidity (Houston, Dallas, West: live in, restaurants, beach)

[EugeneBKLYN]

So I guess it depends on wind direction

[ohhi]

its horrible. not as bad as houston but still awful

[Stick]

Originally Posted by EugeneBKLYN

How is the humidity in Dallas on a given afternoon in July/August?

Does it feel like a wet towel, like Houston does? Or is it more moderated and tolerable?

Eugene-

Dallas is slightly less humid..but hotter in Summer than Houston. I came from WI 19 years ago. I am still trying to figure out why.

[Pintea]

If you live in Brooklyn - this is dry!

[BSL63087]

It's all relative... If you are used to a highly humid place, it will seem not that bad. If you are used to a dry place, it will seem terrible.

[KewGee]

Originally Posted by BSL63087

It's all relative... If you are used to a highly humid place, it will seem not that bad. If you are used to a dry place, it will seem terrible.

I have lived in Texas for 28 years, and I'm still not used to the humidity. How much longer must I wait?

[momof2dfw]

Originally Posted by KewGee

I have lived in Texas for 28 years, and I'm still not used to the humidity. How much longer must I wait?

Take a trip to Florida (especially Key West) or anywhere in the northeast during their hot summer and you will come back thinking that this place is super dry. I'll take our humidity ANY day over that stuff or the super dry heat of Arizona. YUCK! Talk about ruining your skin and suffocating. No thanks.

[USA_Mom]

Originally Posted by momof2dfw

Take a trip to Florida (especially Key West) or anywhere in the northeast during their hot summer and you will come back thinking that this place is super dry.

I lived in Huntington Beach/SoCal from 1977 until 1994, so to me it's humid. But I also lived in Baton Rouge, Louisiana from 1994 until 1997 and OMG that's like living in a sauna. Dallas is not NEARLY as humid as New Orleans where my mom's family is from at all or in Baton Rouge. My husband, native New Orleans, thinks it's "arid" in DFW so I think it's pretty relative.

LOL people kept telling me when I was kid in New Orleans (until 1977) and when I moved back I'd get used to the humidity there--um no I got used to being inside all the time there though.

[SprintRider]

How about DFW compared with San Antonio?

[JasonDFW]

Originally Posted by EugeneBKLYN

How is the humidity in Dallas on a given afternoon in July/August?

Does it feel like a wet towel, like Houston does? Or is it more moderated and tolerable?

The average dewpoint (the measure of absolute humidity) is several degrees lower here during the summer and all year actually. Not hugely so if you're from say the valleys of SoCal or west Texas however.

This year has been more humid than average. Last year, 27 of the 31 days of August had relative humidities during the peak heat of the day between 20 and 30%, which most people feel as a hot, dry heat. August is the driest month of the year in many respects.


To the Wisconsinite that didn't know why Dallas was hotter than Houston during the summer, it is the higher humidity that keeps Houston cooler. Wet air stores more energy than dry air. During the 4 days of August last year where we didn't get down to 20-30% relative humidity during the hottest part of the day, the average high was only in the 80s those days. Again, because the humidity (and to some extent the sunshine) kept the temperatures down.

Jason