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Phoenix for sure! The heat and sun is known to melt the glue that adheres the rearview mirror to the window causing it to land in your lap when you make a slight adjustment.
And don't think that that it cools down at night either during the summer. Midnight and it's still a balmy 100 degrees with no breeze.
Phoenix for sure! The heat and sun is known to melt the glue that adheres the rearview mirror to the window causing it to land in your lap when you make a slight adjustment.
Houston definitely has the most uncomfortable summers, and by far the number 1 place NOT to move if you don't like heat or humidty. I personally like humidity though, it helps keep my voice supple. Just a preference (since I'm a singer.)
I voted for the Palm Springs area because when I was there once in the summer, it was NOT pleasant. It felt like it was too hot for human life but that was years ago when my heat tolerance was really low. Not that I love heat now but back then was a different story for me.
Something a lot of us are proud of. No, it's not for everyone, but some are used to it.
Some people will put up with stuck indoors all winter and it's a similar situation.
Lived there for 11 years and am now in Houston. Yes Houston is humid and hot but in Phoenix sometimes it is so hot that it seems like everything is dead for many many months on end, You dont hear a bird chirp, or even see a house fly. Only crickets, scorpions and a few lizzards can sustain life in conditions soooooo! estreme. In houston it is hot and very humid but there is at least life there. It is near water so you can go to the beach and there is green grass, animals, insects plus a lot of days are under 90 degrees and it rains and cools off. No, I am sure after 11 years in phoenix that it is the hotter of the 2. I can remember just walking from the car to the store was like an oven. And its not true that you cool off in the shade. When it is that hot even the shade doesn't help. Plus at night come on. I remember that even at 10:00 at night it would still be over 100 degrees in phoenix. No there is no confusion here, Phoenix is the king of hot unbearable Summers.
For example, if you stood outside in the worst heat and humidity in Houston lets say 95 degrees and a heat index of 107. Thenyou also stood outside in the worst Phoenix weather lets say 117 degrees (Remember that Houston has clouds in the summer) you would die WAY! faster in Phoenix. You guys cant imagine this kind of heat for days and weeks on end it is really surprising. In Phoenix you are always out in the full sun with extreme and I mean EXTREME uv and sun exposure the sun will burn you and start cooking you in a minute. Yes they may have similar heat indicies but the FULL SUN EXPOSURE in phoenix is what makes it so much worse. When you get in your car you will get burned by the steering wheel. You will get burned just from touching the metal exterior of your car or anything really that has been in the sun. You cant touch a rock or even grab the metal railings of the laddre on a pool. Dont forget that the sun in Phoenix scorches like in no other place. That is worse than all of the humidity.
Funny how PHX gets more votes than Yuma, AZ, which is even hotter. I believe even hotter still is Lake Havasu City/Bullhead, AZ area. That place is so daggone hot that its nearly impossible to keep yourself from bursting into flames everytime you step outside.
Lived there for 11 years and am now in Houston. Yes Houston is humid and hot but in Phoenix sometimes it is so hot that it seems like everything is dead for many many months on end, You dont hear a bird chirp, or even see a house fly. Only crickets, scorpions and a few lizzards can sustain life in conditions soooooo! estreme. In houston it is hot and very humid but there is at least life there. It is near water so you can go to the beach and there is green grass, animals, insects plus a lot of days are under 90 degrees and it rains and cools off. No, I am sure after 11 years in phoenix that it is the hotter of the 2. I can remember just walking from the car to the store was like an oven. And its not true that you cool off in the shade. When it is that hot even the shade doesn't help. Plus at night come on. I remember that even at 10:00 at night it would still be over 100 degrees in phoenix. No there is no confusion here, Phoenix is the king of hot unbearable Summers.
For example, if you stood outside in the worst heat and humidity in Houston lets say 95 degrees and a heat index of 107. Thenyou also stood outside in the worst Phoenix weather lets say 117 degrees (Remember that Houston has clouds in the summer) you would die WAY! faster in Phoenix. You guys cant imagine this kind of heat for days and weeks on end it is really surprising. In Phoenix you are always out in the full sun with extreme and I mean EXTREME uv and sun exposure the sun will burn you and start cooking you in a minute. Yes they may have similar heat indicies but the FULL SUN EXPOSURE in phoenix is what makes it so much worse. When you get in your car you will get burned by the steering wheel. You will get burned just from touching the metal exterior of your car or anything really that has been in the sun. You cant touch a rock or even grab the metal railings of the laddre on a pool. Dont forget that the sun in Phoenix scorches like in no other place. That is worse than all of the humidity.
I agree. PHX summers are insanely hot at times. Just standing outside will drench you in sweat, and thats early in the morning! Shade? Doesnt help at all, unless you have the mist machines going full speed, then its semi-tolerable. But step out into that sun? OUCH
Check out what the sun did to this candle outside! LOL
This was way up in Northern AZ, between Gallup, NM and Flagstaff, AZ in the "cool" part of the state. I say cool because, well, look at this pic and the one below it taken in PHX in the sun and it actually was "cool" in Northern AZ!
YOWZA!
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