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Those 100+ temperatures don't come with high humidity.
No, actually they do once in a while. For example in Austin I remember on August 12, 2016 there was a temp of 101F coupled with with a dew point of 76 F, for a heat index of 116 F. Most of the time 100+ temps are associated to dews in the upper 50s and low 60s in Austin, but on occasion 100/70+ can occur.
It's kind of rare most years but the summer of 2016 (for instance) was infamous for this iirc.
Texas, as well as most other places between the Rockies and the Appalachians, has more extreme weather than other areas on the eastern margin of other continents at the same latitude. That is just a fact; there are no values involved in that, unless, for some reason, God is meting retribution to the eastern 2/3 of the US. Every climate has its good points and bad points.
Dallas might not be as mild as Chongqing or Shanghai or Central Uruguay or other places with Cfa climates at 32° latitude, but I still like the weather here. Maybe we can’t grow Jacarandas, but we can still grow Magnolias and live oaks, and we still get fall color. I’ll take it! I may complain when it’s too hot or too cold, or there’s a drought, or I can’t mow the lawn because it won’t stop raining, but it’s what we get, and it’s OK. Live oaks, Shumard oaks, crape myrtles, and St. Augustine grass basically define the landscape here, and that’s pretty good, as far as I’m concerned.
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Reason: I typed “St. Augustine” instead on “St. Augustine grass.”
Texas, as well as most other places between the Rockies and the Appalachians, has more extreme weather than other areas on the eastern margin of other continents at the same latitude. That is just a fact; there are no values involved in that, unless, for some reason, God is meting retribution to the eastern 2/3 of the US. Every climate has its good points and bad points.
honestly, the entire north american continent is extreme compared to other places around the world, in at least one way or another.
No, actually they do once in a while. For example in Austin I remember on August 12, 2016 there was a temp of 101F coupled with with a dew point of 76 F, for a heat index of 116 F. Most of the time 100+ temps are associated to dews in the upper 50s and low 60s in Austin, but on occasion 100/70+ can occur.
It's kind of rare most years but the summer of 2016 (for instance) was infamous for this iirc.
Even places like California where the weather is supposedly "perfect" isn't immune to this either.. I experienced similar 100+ and even 110+ temperatures with high dewpoints over 65 during the infamous Sacramento heat wave of 2006. DFW and Austin dewpoints seem to vary from the 50s to the 70s although somewhat inversely correlated with the temperature, while places like Houston tend to be perpetually stuck above the high 60s in the summer.
I would say Oklahoma is the worst. It has all of the things mentioned in the OP about Texas but magnified. This week, their highs are only in the teens and single digits with lows below zero. In a couple of months, the cold weather will give way to destructive severe weather and tornadoes and then after that, triple digit temps. There really isn't a nice season that reliably comes every year.
One thing that gets a little lost in the complaints about the climate is that at least there's a degree of variation if you're into that kind of thing. Sure, the Arctic blasts can send temps down in a heartbeat in Texas and they're getting a week of some extra cold weather right now (but nothing that would be deemed unusual in say Chicago or Cleveland), but they've (in Dallas) also already had 7 days with comfortable highs in the 60s this February and 20 in January - and 6 days with 70+ temps this year already. In other words..even if you get the occasional hardcore cold..you know it won't stick around for long.
And I at least personally have always thought that the sheer relentless duration of the cold is what makes it depressing in the North. Like going into December knowing it will probably be 4-5 months before you see a really nice warmer day again. It's not hard to take a few days of super cold temperatures IMO even if you despise it. And I know what I'm talking about because I do despise it.
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