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D.C. and Houston were the worst I've ever experienced.
Glad people mentioning DC though this summer has been very tolerable so far. Had a couple mid 90 days but most days have been in the 80s. Cool summer so far. The summer of 2012 was miserable though.
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2. Houston. I'm not sure there are many places in the world that get quite as hot AND humid as Houston does in the summer.
Plenty. Cities in the Persian gulf, India, and Southeast Asia would make Houston look like Barcelona.
Right now in Calcutta it's 90 degrees with 75% humidity and it feels like 108 degrees. At night, they have humid nights up to 90%. Houston is hot and humid but never that hot and humid at the same time.
The summer I spent in DC was the absolute worse in terms of heat and humidity.
St. Louis was a very close second.
Washington DC, Cincinnati and St. Louis are just far enough south that they can get baked even as cities farther north have an average or below-average summer. U.S. 50 seems to be about the dividing line between occasional heat and more persistent heat.
Glad people mentioning DC though this summer has been very tolerable so far. Had a couple mid 90 days but most days have been in the 80s. Cool summer so far. The summer of 2012 was miserable though.
Plenty. Cities in the Persian gulf, India, and Southeast Asia would make Houston look like Barcelona.
Right now in Calcutta it's 90 degrees with 75% humidity and it feels like 108 degrees. At night, they have humid nights up to 90%. Houston is hot and humid but never that hot and humid at the same time.
There is nothing "cool" about temperatures in the 80sF.
So are you suggesting that most people want a chilly or cold summer? I think it is pretty much a fact that most people enjoy a warm summer, sometimes a hot one. Otherwise, we wouldn't see commercials on TV for buying bathing suits, or hear advertisements on the radio for hitting the beach/shore, checking out the newest water park, etc.
Haha nope. Most people abhor heat(muggy or dry) as they run from their air conditioned homes to air conditioned cars and drive to air conditioned destinations.
I just open the doors to my veranda and a cool breeze(69-72)wafts in. At night, I dont need AC or a fan and actually sleep with a blanket and am not sweaty and fending off mosquitos. You cant do that in hot places and unless your air is manipulated to be cooler with some manmade device like AC, tryimg to go to sleep is difficult and quite frankly, yucky.
Im just not used to that. And 99% of people who visit me instantly fall in love with the weather, so to each his own but I dont do nasty summers.
For me, I prefer humid heat. I understand it is oppressive at times, but the reason it is for me is because of all the bugs like mosquitoes. Dry intense heat like in Phoenix or Vegas just feels like going into an oven. I would rather have a 90F with humidity than 110F and very dry.
I grew up in Orlando, FL and spent a year in Las Vegas. The south is worse, IMHO. The only thing that bothered me about LV was the extreme brightness of the sun, but the sweating in LV was no where near as bad as FL.
Glad people mentioning DC though this summer has been very tolerable so far. Had a couple mid 90 days but most days have been in the 80s. Cool summer so far. The summer of 2012 was miserable though.
Plenty. Cities in the Persian gulf, India, and Southeast Asia would make Houston look like Barcelona.
Right now in Calcutta it's 90 degrees with 75% humidity and it feels like 108 degrees. At night, they have humid nights up to 90%. Houston is hot and humid but never that hot and humid at the same time.
Yeah and it's always a trade off in most places that aren't tempered by the ocean. If you want more mild winters, you will likely have worse summers (DC, Houston, ATL); if you want nicer summers, you will likely have worse winters (Mpls, Chi, Bos).
Yeah and it's always a trade off in most places that aren't tempered by the ocean. If you want more mild winters, you will likely have worse summers (DC, Houston, ATL); if you want nicer summers, you will likely have worse winters (Mpls, Chi, Bos).
Exactly - Chicago has pretty nice Summers too. Actually I'm here right now.
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