houston weather (San Antonio, Austin, West: living in, dangerous, deal)

[TXRyan23]

Originally Posted by tstone

You're probably not going to like the eastern 1/3rd of Texas, or the entire "climatic southeast," or most of the northeast for that matter. We get more than our fair share. Enough to say flooding is a normal part of life here:

http://www.cocorahs.org/media/images/us_precip.png

We're roughly on the aqua-light blue border.

Ha, Houston is actually shown as having less rain than Nashville, TN....

[tstone]

We don't really get anymore rain than the rest of the south. The issue is our land is so flat the water has nowhere to go. Also, the prevailing winds are from the S/SE (Gulf), so the humidity almost never lets up. Hence the reputation.

[harrygrath]

BTW,cigs in EU r even more expensive,due to almost 150% tax.

[TXRyan23]

Originally Posted by harrygrath

BTW,cigs in EU r even more expensive,due to almost 150% tax.

EU....... ?

[Nairobi]

hot and hotter sums it up...aggravating winters. no snow. no cool air

[EclecticEars]

Originally Posted by harrygrath

BTW,cigs in EU r even more expensive,due to almost 150% tax.

An almost 150% tax? I don't smoke, but good grief, that's up-p-p-p-p-p there!

[harrygrath]

EU is..European Union...

Sin tax starts at 100% plus the horrible euro sales taxes plus extras...

[robertpolyglot]

Seriously, though, this subject keeps coming up. Looking at THE LINK on post # 2, that is hardly dreadful. The bad humidity is in the morning, in the afternoon it looks ok. Since when is 60 to 75 % uncomfortable? At above 80 %, it's uncomfortable.

Also, I doubt it could be that much worse than Atlanta's? There, the 85F+/85% + runs from about June 15 through September 15. I remember putting on a suit on any August morning, driving to the MARTA station and waiting on the platform, thinking "Yikes, this is bad" but you get on the train and into your office, then it's better. The rest of the year (except for 2 ice storms or so) was quite comfortable. Who cares if it's humid when it's 62 F?

Lastly, I don't know who will agree with me / disagree with me on this one: have you ever walked out of the doors of Las Vegas's McCarran airport to go outside when it's 107 F, even with 20 % humidity? It is delibitating and is worse than 88 F with 85 % humidity can ever be. The high triple digits are downright painful.

[jfre81]

West Texas and even Austin or San Antonio can get dangerously hot and dry like Vegas. If you've been to Vegas or Phoenix or the drier parts of Texas in the summer you will learn to deal with the humidity here. The actual air temperatures tend to be lower here, and the humidity makes you sweat. I'd rather be sweaty than dead of heatstroke.

[lydunn]

Oh wow now I am even more confused on the weather...I know I have a relative that lives in Austin and he says its sticky wet or I have to assume that Houston is the same way since its more closier to the water.