Humidity

[debntx]

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?

Oh Lord, then don't ever go to Florida, Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina, Mississippi, Louisiana, or Western Tennessee! This is low humidity in comparison.

[debntx]

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'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.

It is much higher humidity in Florida but the trade off is you get those fantastic beaches with that sugar-white sand and emerald green water to cool off in not to mention all the lush landscape with the flowers and palm trees! Ooo la la Paradise

[momof2dfw]

Originally Posted by debntx

It is much higher humidity in Florida but the trade off is you get those fantastic beaches with that sugar-white sand and emerald green water to cool off in not to mention all the lush landscape with the flowers and palm trees! Ooo la la Paradise

Yea, but there are NO beaches in the Keys (well there are VERY few man-made ones Smathers Beach in Key West if you dare..... ). Not much of a breeze either during the day while your walking the streets since the buildings are all built pretty close together blocking the "breeze" and there is more concrete than green lushness. It was SOOOO hot that I found the ladies room and stripped down to the bare needs and I thought I had dressed as cool as possible w/ lightweight cotton and linen. Wearing undergarments was just plain MISERABLE! No wonder their Halloween parties are au la natural - who in heck wants to dress up in a stinking hot costume. Most of the restaurants did not have a/c as they were open air.

[aussie_rachel]

I find NY incredibly humid in the summer, compared to Australia. I have been watching the humidity levels in Dallas for the last few weeks, they have been fairly high.

[sonshinelife]

Indiana and Ohio are awful in the summer months ...July/August in regards to humidity. My friends and I were just talking about that tonight as some of them are from that area and my parents were as well. We use to go every summer and you would just melt it was so bad. Of course back when I was little my grandmothers didn't have air condition except for one room (window unit), and where would we primarily stay? Grandma's. LOL!

[aceplace]

Dallas is significantly less humid than Houston.

According to the NOAA, the national weather service, today, July 19, is forecast to be 91 degrees at 4PM, with 47% relative humidity in the Dallas area.

Houston will peak at 86 degrees at 4PM, with a 70% relative humidity.

Houston's weather chart is at Hourly Weather Forecast for 29.75N -95.37W

Dallas' weather chart is at Hourly Weather Forecast for 33.32N -97W (Elev. 653 ft)

[loves2read]

humidity has been high because of all the rain we experienced past 2 months--higher temps are sucking the water out of the ground and surface area--
we haven't had the winds from the gulf coast to bring in humidity--most of our winds lately have been from the west and the north which are pretty unusual but that is also why we had more rain than normal

[KewGee]

Originally Posted by debntx

Oh Lord, then don't ever go to Florida, Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina, Mississippi, Louisiana, or Western Tennessee! This is low humidity in comparison.

Oh, don't worry. I've been through a few of those states and when I was there, the humidity was fine in June. I might add East Texas to that list as well.

Personally, I don't care for the "deep south" at all and would never live in any of those state except maybe Eastern TN in the mountains.

[DFWMike]

Believe me, I grew up near Houston and the humidity in Dallas is not near as bad as Houston. Of course, that hasn't been true this spring, but this spring/early summer weather pattern has been highly unusual for DFW. That being said, we do have more humidity than places like Albuquerque and Phoenix, but who doesn't?