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Depends on the temperature. A 43 F day with dew point of 39 F is very humid, but not sweaty. A 90 F day with dew point of 65 F is not as humid, but feels very sweaty because of the high temps.
People often correlate humid weather with sweatiness, and forget that it can be humid even on cold days.
In terms of feeling humid, I think it's relative to what one is used to. I live in the Phoenix AZ metro area and of course we are used to low humidity and dew points here in the Sonoran desert. This time of the year our dew points and humidity are often in the single digits. We had a negative dew point the other day. So when the dew point creeps up to the 40% range which happens in July and August during the monsoon season, the air starts to feel heavy and a bit unpleasant to me, even with humidity in the 20% range.
yeah, here for most of this year dew points have remained very close to temps, thus it has been very humid (80-90%) all the time. I find it hard to breathe and feel sweaty even in 14c weather but the locals don't seem to complain too much. They do complain about wind though, I love it because it brings down RH a bit and cleans the atmosphere, but they say it makes them cold. I guess they're not used to it, such as I'm not used to very high RH (which makes me feel very cold even with relatively high temperatures like now).
Yea if you mean what feels humid, I would say above 70 is humid, at least where it starts to get uncomfortable. I can feel the humidity below 70 but it's not bad. Below 65 is barely noticeable. Below 60 is dry. Really I'm fine until the dew point starts approaching 75. That's when it's really humid and I wish it were drier. This is all with a temp of say 75 or above. Below that it's not uncomfortable.
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