Humidity in Houston ? (El Paso, Spring, Miami: house, to live in, move to)

[Zonie5]

i hope soon to move to Houston and have heard how humid it gets there . right now i live in Arizona with hardly any humidity . also i see that Houston is fairly close to the Gulf and wondered if humidity and salt air have any affects on cars . might be a stupid question but something that sicks in my mind and won't let go .

[NTT]

I don't feel any salt air in Houston but humidity is something else, especially if you're coming from Arizona.

[modster]

The humidity doesn't affect the cars, now your nerves....

[piyf]

I lived in El Paso for 2 yrs so I know how great low humidity is. Let me say this, you will miss it. I loved the fact it was 110* but in the shade it felt like it was 30* cooler. Not to mention the nights were pretty cool. It was a great place to have night time activities. It was so cool it felt like you were inside the house and I had zero ants or bugs in my yard.

With that said, the humidity here right now is relatively low because we're in a drought. But any other year it is horrible. It's always high and makes it very unpleasant to be outside at any time of the day. I've been here my whole life minus the 2yrs in ELP and never seen a car with salt damage.

[I LOVE NORTH CAROLINA]

Our dew points are very high which makes unbearable sticky feeling air. I HATE it and would move if I could, some people handle it better than others, hopefully you can.

[Lost_In_Translation]

You might hate the humidity, but your skin will love it.

[CanTex]

Originally Posted by Lost_In_Translation

You might hate the humidity, but your skin will love it.

Yes, we have naturally moisturizing climate...

[lhafer]

Let's put this in perspective - saunas can have 50% humidity if you add quite a bit of water, and lower the temperature.

Today in Houston (right now at 9am):
Temp - 79 degrees
Humidity level - 88%
Heat index - 83 degrees

So it's worse than a sauna at 9am.

[Zonie5]

in Arizonawhere i am at 7:25am it is 70f, 49%humidity, 50%dewpoint . normal humidity here is around 10-20% . right now we are at the start of our monsoon season and that acoounts for a higher humidity .
i used to live in Nebraska at a jos with temps around 2300f and outside temps in 80s with humidity to match . to make it worse i had to wear protective clothing so that end of day i was wet all the through and stunk like a billy goat .

[ahzzie]

Once you get past the summer, though, it's not that humid the rest of the year and is actually quite pleasant. My wife remarked that Fall through Spring reminds her of the weather in Los Angeles where she grew up. Some posters have a predisposed hatred of Houston and would have you believe that it's hot and muggy year round and that is simply not the case. Yes, in the summer our humidity gets pretty high but I can tell you it's not the worst in the nation as some would have you believe. It's no worse than any other city that's close to the ocean. If you want extremely high humidity, take a trip to New Orleans or Miami sometime.