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The thing with Houston or New Orleans or whatever is that you expect it in the summertime. You expect 95 degrees with relative high humidity. I echo the sentiments of Washington DC. That place in July and August can be extremely uncomfortable. You don't expect it because of its northern latitude like someone mentioned. But it can get hot there. Chicago though can get humid but the majority of the time it is pleasant. It was in the upper 70s for highs last week and it will be again this Wednesday.
While the humidity yes is bad elsewhere. I think from Jacksonville up to Savannah up to Charleston has the highest dew point temps anywhere. Especially east of I-95 we average around 75-85 degrees in the summer.
Our typical forecast... High 95 degrees. Dew Point 85!
Night.... Low 81 degrees Dew Point 80!
Eh, I wouldn't go THAT far with the dew points. Yeah, sure, it'll get up in the low 80's but I rarely ever see mid 80's dew points here. A few times this summer I saw 82 but that was about as high as it got. Either way you look at it though, it's HOT and HUMID.
ALL states on the east coast, south and most of the midwest get humid as hell in the summer. It comes from the "Bermuda High" that sits in the middle of the Atlantic. the semi-permanent pressure system bring moisture from the gulf. pretty much every state on the eastern half of the US gets humid because of it. I think that is also why most hurricanes swing northward towards the US.
I used to think that Florida had to be the worst state for humidity [though Puerto Rico is actually worse but isn't a state]. But I visited New York City last week for the first time and it was extremely hot and humid [it seemed hotter than even Miami]. So I guess all the East Coast is very humid.
I live in North Carolina. I'm on the border of North and South Carolina, and I live about 40 minutes from Charlotte, NC. In the second week of May, the air temperature here was 90, the humidity was 60-75%, and the head index was 96 and 97. It's cooled off a little right now, and the temperature is about 83, the humidity is about 70%, and the head index is about 86.
By June and July, the temperature will easily be in the 90-95 range, the humidity will be anywhere from 60-80%, and the heat index will range from 95-115. Last summer we had about 40 consecutive days with a head index above 105.
It gets very hot and humid here. There is never any dry heat. We are far from the ocean (about a six hour drive to the NC coast and a four hour drive to a beach in SC), so we don't have any tropical breezes to help us out. In the summer there is usually no wind. It's just hot, humid, and miserable.
I've been all over the South, east of the Mississippi River, and my opinion is that Florida is simply the most humid of all, especially on the west coast and inland. It seriously feels like a sauna when taking a walk outside. But I love it!
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