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Generally speaking only the coastal areas of Mediterranean Europe see dew points high enough in the summer to create heat indecies.
Luqa Airport is in the middle of the island. The coast where Flaminggalah lives, probably would have dewpoints more comparable to Lampedusa. (the neightbouring island)
Edit: I think for most of the Med Coast, there's already a big difference in mugginess between standing on the beach and being 5-10km away from the coast.
There are some exceptions like Adana.
Luqa Airport is in the middle of the island. The coast where Flaminggalah lives, probably would have dewpoints more comparable to Lampedusa. (the neightbouring island)
This is one of the highest dew point averages you would find in the coastal Med.
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Edit: I think for most of the Med Coast, there's already a big difference in mugginess between standing on the beach and being 5-10km away from the coast.
There are some exceptions like Adana.
Yes, even less than 10km.... I notice that when I travel to Greece, and when I was in Sicily. Unlike the US where you can go hundreds of kilometers inland and not see much of a difference in dew points.
Speaking of dew points since this thread is about Chicago, average hourly dew points (not peak) for selected heat episodes. Seems as if we are getting more high dew point heat waves and fewer dry heatwaves
The 2012 heatwave was also fairly humid. July had 22 days where dew points peaked at or above 21C/70F. The air temperatures were exceptional.
If the weather isn't to my liking, then I'm not going to call it "nice"....lol
But if people don't don't know your personal weather preference in the summer then simply saying "nowhere has a nice summer in Europe" is a pointless statement without saying exactly why... Besides Europe is pretty big & I'm sure there must be somewhere that gets hot summers with frequent rain/thunderstorms...
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Malta is a small rock in the middle of the Med. so it would be humid
Still not nearly as humid as the US South. About as humid as the Midwest or Mid Atlantic during the peak summer months.
Generally speaking only the coastal areas of Mediterranean Europe see dew points high enough in the summer to create heat indecies.
As has been said Luqa is inland & as small as Malta may be it does make a difference, I can get dewpoints here at the coast in the high 20's celcius, many visitors, even from other Mediterranean areas, comment about how humid & oppressive the heat is here in the summer...
Paris isn´t bad but Chicago for being more interesting and warmer in summers. But yes -there is indeed quite a long winter in Chicago, that is three months with means below zero, that is a bit more than I actually thought.
we're not coastal but there's plenty of water around...
The Po Valley has an interesting climate as far as Italy is concerned. Unlike much of the rest of the Med were coastal areas can be humid, but abruptly dry out just a few km inland (mostly thanks to rugged terrain and increasing elevation imo), the Po Valley has a similar effect as the Gulf Coast US. Flat landmass which allows for moisture to flow easily inland from the Sea. Plus, like you said additional sources of water which can add more moisture into the air.
Even though this summer was cooler than average, we did have many days with high dew points. Even reached 27C+ three times this past July
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I don't know why anyone would actually like or want high summer humidity, thunderstorms I can understand, but here in the summer as soon as you have had a shower you need another one. Doing the slightest thing makes you sweat buckets & especially going about day to day life, having to wear a shirt & tie to work for example is awful. If all you have to do is sit by a pool (or on the beach) & sip Mai Tai's fair enough, but the humidity here in the summer kills me...
I don't know why anyone would actually like or want high summer humidity, thunderstorms I can understand, but here in the summer as soon as you have had a shower you need another one. Doing the slightest thing makes you sweat buckets & especially going about day to day life, having to wear a shirt & tie to work for example is awful. If all you have to do is sit by a pool (or on the beach) & sip Mai Tai's fair enough, but the humidity here in the summer kills me...
some people like to be drenched in sweat all the time I guess.
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Yeah, it's so nice to have weather I don't like.
