Anyone sick and tired of the humidity yet?

[airdrawndagger]

Well I hope yall are enjoying your dry air, because this may be one of the last cool fronts until October.

[Rancho5]

NM resident here... I’m appreciative of your Comments on humidity. New Mexico is incredibly dry, in fact whenever we venture east and have to come back you can almost feel your skin shrinking up again.

We are actually venturing east again this July, to scope out potential retirement places and a few Houston area suburbs are on our list, as is Corpus Christi. The reason we are going in July is, 1) We are teachers so it’s the only time we really can go, but 2), so we can experience the Houston summer and see how “intolerable“ the humidity is. We took a trip to the south a couple of years ago during July and the humidity was actually quite nice. I enjoyed not scratching the back of my hands constantly and running a metal dog comb over my entire body before I went to bed each night. It’s so freaking dry in New Mexico!

[houston-nomad]

Originally Posted by Rancho5

NM resident here... I’m appreciative of your Comments on humidity. New Mexico is incredibly dry, in fact whenever we venture east and have to come back you can almost feel your skin shrinking up again.

We are actually venturing east again this July, to scope out potential retirement places and a few Houston area suburbs are on our list, as is Corpus Christi. The reason we are going in July is, 1) We are teachers so it’s the only time we really can go, but 2), so we can experience the Houston summer and see how “intolerable“ the humidity is. We took a trip to the south a couple of years ago during July and the humidity was actually quite nice. I enjoyed not scratching the back of my hands constantly and running a metal dog comb over my entire body before I went to bed each night. It’s so freaking dry in New Mexico!

Visiting in July is smart!

I'm vaguely curious why you would run a metal dog comb over your entire body... but I actually don't want to know.

[Rancho5]

It's the only implement sufficient to satisfy the itchiness your skin will experience living at 5,300 ft, with average dew point of 30.8 degrees. I'm originally from Scottsdale, AZ and it's much dryer here in NM. Maybe it's the higher elevation?

[KerrTown]

Originally Posted by Dopo

You know what's worse
to live up Kansas/Missouri and get the same hot summer than we get in Houston for 3 months
and 6 months later you are scrapping ice off of your windshield every other week to go to work.

Unlike them, we get 3-4 months of perfect weather during winter
That's when all the whiners will complain that "It doesn't feel like Christmas"

Tennessee is a popular destination for "Halfbacks" from Florida tired of the dreary heat, but don't want to go back to the Upper Midwest because of the harsh winters.

K.C. doesn't look attractive after the winter storm. The storm showed how horrible it is to shovel snow/scrape ice and dealing with icy roads for the entire winter. Our Texas houses would not survive the consistent pipe-breaking cold if transplanted North.

The downside of the dry heat? The increased infrared heat/UV rays beating down on you without the humidity diffusing the light/heat. The sun is at a much higher angle than it was a couple months back, but the sun's infrared heat right now makes it feel late June-early August.