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Don't know why you all think the other Texas cities would be less hot than Houston.
Houston is closest to the coast, which moderates the heat. Austin, Dallas and San Antonio are further inland So they get higher highs.
It's the same reason that Palm Springs gets hotter than LA.
It's not that Houston isn't super hot, it's the fact that yall pick on it like the rest of the state isn't just as hot. The entire gulf coast states are pretty the same.
It appears as if Georgetown just experienced a heatburst over the last 2 hours. At midnight, the temperature was 82 and it skyrocketed to 99 at 1:10AM! See the time series plot from the TX mesonet. Humidity dropped to as low as 17% as well. #txwx
The Temps went up at night? To 99? You sure it wasn't some error?
Here it dropped to a chilly 79 degrees and stayed there brrrrr
But yeah Texas has been on fire this week.
That Corridor from Corpus to Laredo has been seeing heat indices between 115 and 120. The area isn't as populated as the triangle so it is not talked about much, but the heatwave has really been hitting that area hard.
North Texas has been looking cool this week compared to Central, West, and South Texas.
Come on Mr Focker, let's have a good old low oxygen fish fry
Key West has an average temperature is 26.1 or 79f. That makes it the hottest place I'm aware of in the 50 states. Honorable mention to Brownsville, Texas, for not being an island and still having an average of 24.6/76.3 year round. that makes it slightly warmer than Miami despite Miami being a tropical climate. Hottest summers will be in the desert somewhere. Phoenix summers average 34.4/94 degrees, including the nighttime lows.
Don't know why you all think the other Texas cities would be less hot than Houston.
Houston is closest to the coast, which moderates the heat. Austin, Dallas and San Antonio are further inland So they get higher highs.
It's the same reason that Palm Springs gets hotter than LA.
It's not that Houston isn't super hot, it's the fact that yall pick on it like the rest of the state isn't just as hot. The entire gulf coast states are pretty the same.
Have yall spent a summer in Tampa?
Yes I go to Florida at least once or twice a year, sometimes in the wet season but I’ve gone there nearly every time of the year. And one of those summers have been in St Pete directly.
Houston is swampy, the other cities are drier. So maybe the other Texas cities see more extremes sure… but that’s because they don’t have the humidity of coastal Houston. Dallas should be colder than Houston and San Antonio for the sheer fact that it’s further north, even if not by a whole lot, and because it’s more inland also, a bit drier. That’s not saying Dallas isn’t hot, but it’s gonna be cooler than Houston.
Most of Houston is not right on the shore but a wee bit inland. Unless you are literally like in Galveston you can forget any possibility of a sea breeze. Houston’s potential benefits are that it’s cloudy and rainy enough with shade from trees and grass and what not. As someone who grew up in the desert the sun is the enemy and that doesn’t change whether you are in a jungle or a desert. Houston may have more mitigating factors but if those are eliminated for suburban developments with no old growth forests to cancel out already developed areas, large asphalt and concrete surface areas, etc. the city will be just as hot if not hotter.
Having spent a summer in New Orleans and in other similar places like Cambodia that climate can be hard on the body. But to me places like Central Texas (going through the state vertically) I thought would still be more palatable because it lacks forests, can be somewhat green still and isn’t too dry or humid. And because it’s flat, would get a good amount of wind. But maybe it’s still too sunny and brown.
There's a saying in the South..."it ain't about the heat, it's the humidity". Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas are all fairly neck and neck.
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