If Phoenix is that hot, why do so many move there? (train, car)

[WANative]

Originally Posted by deboinair

I moved from Miami where it is 100% humidity pretty much every day.

I keep waiting for the humidity! This has been the softest spring/early summer ever! Humidity levels are around 60% and after 6pm is crazy comfortable. No rain either--blue skies daily. Must be El Nino....

Wow, just checked the phoenix weather...its 9pm there and still 104 degrees! Coolest day over the next 7 is 107 degrees on Monday...Crazy!

[simetime]

Pittsburgh to Atlanta to Erie to Phoenix

Cold/snowy to hot humid to deep snow/lake effect to "welcome to Hell" in the summertime.........I love the winters

[Paul-E-Bear]

Originally Posted by DesertFlower61

Well, I moved here two months ago after 27 of years of living in the Pacific Northwest. . . .
YMMV but personally my only regret is not moving to Arizona sooner!

Your health issues in the NW may have been due to mold spores. My wife lived up there for years and was sick 75% of the time. A doctor finally concluded that she was sensitive to mold spores and would never be 'well' until she went to a dryer climate. She moved to San Diego and all her health problems disappeared in a couple of weeks....

Yes, the Phoenix area is really hot for about four months of the year. The spring and fall are warm but, the winters are mostly great. That's why the 'snow-birds' migrate south in the winters too....

[Fl1150]

Originally Posted by WANative

I keep waiting for the humidity! This has been the softest spring/early summer ever! Humidity levels are around 60% and after 6pm is crazy comfortable. No rain either--blue skies daily. Must be El Nino....

Wow, just checked the phoenix weather...its 9pm there and still 104 degrees! Coolest day over the next 7 is 107 degrees on Monday...Crazy!

I'm experiencing the same thing where I live in Florida really hot during the day but nice and cool as night approaches.

[stevek64]

Originally Posted by WANative

I keep waiting for the humidity! This has been the softest spring/early summer ever! Humidity levels are around 60% and after 6pm is crazy comfortable. No rain either--blue skies daily.

Maybe for FL standards but you're on the wrong forum to call 60% humidity "crazy comfortable". That's crazy uncomfortable for many of us in the low desert. When the humidity approaches 30-40%, the air feels too heavy for my liking. I'll take 110 with our current 12% humidity over your 91 with 60% humidity and matching/if not higher dew point any day.

[Prickly Pear]

I don't know. I was born and raised here and I went to college here just for in-state tuition. But I am planning to move out once I graduate. I am more of a cold weather person. But some people actually like the heat here, I think they're crazy but we are all different.

However I do enjoy the summer nights. It could be 102 out but with the sun gone it actually feels great. I also enjoy monsoon season where there is some humidity (about 60% I believe in monsoon season). Overcast or night time I can tolerate not clear sunny skies, but that's about it as far as the summer goes.

The summer day heat actually prevents me from going outside and doing things sometimes because I don't want to leave the A/C... Similarly, I know many who live in cold climates who are like that in the winter time.

[Colt AZ]

Originally Posted by Paul-E-Bear

Yes, the Phoenix area is really hot for about four months of the year. The spring and fall are warm but, the winters are mostly great. That's why the 'snow-birds' migrate south in the winters too....

Yes, Mr Bear. Snowbirds we will always have with us. They come, they sun, they go.

[WANative]

Originally Posted by stevek64

Maybe for FL standards but you're on the wrong forum to call 60% humidity "crazy comfortable". That's crazy uncomfortable for many of us in the low desert. When the humidity approaches 30-40%, the air feels too heavy for my liking. I'll take 110 with our current 12% humidity over your 91 with 60% humidity and matching/if not higher dew point any day.

Not me. I lived in Vegas for a year and to be honest 91 with 60% humidity is wayyyyyyyy easier to deal with than 110-115 degrees at any humidity. The temps in Florida dont keep me or anyone else inside...I see people everywhere walking, riding bikes, convertible tops down etc etc.

Im from Seattle so Im used the humidity so maybe that makes a difference as I dont even notice it.

[BIG CATS]

Originally Posted by stevek64

Maybe for FL standards but you're on the wrong forum to call 60% humidity "crazy comfortable". That's crazy uncomfortable for many of us in the low desert. When the humidity approaches 30-40%, the air feels too heavy for my liking. I'll take 110 with our current 12% humidity over your 91 with 60% humidity and matching/if not higher dew point any day.

Crap, man, just wait a month or so. Nothing like walking outside at 6:30AM to leave for work, and being hit in the face with 85 degree temps, with 60% humidity with a 70-degree dewpoint. Its just as awful as being in Florida. Last summer was particularly bad. There was almost an entire week where I walked outside into those conditions. Lucky for us the humidity burns off in the afternoon (not all of it, but most of it).

[Tall Traveler]

I love Phoenix, 8 months of awesome weather and 4 months of weather so hot, you're forced into a pool.