Florida Heat Vs Phoenix Heat (Flagstaff, Williams: ski resort, amusement parks, living)

[cjseliga]

I realize some people supposedly have a preference between the two, but I've lived in both Arizona (Tucson) for 7 years and the Carolinas (Durham and Columbia) for 7 and a half years, and to me it's basically a pick your poison, the heat in both places stinks!

And I know the Carolinas is not quite as humid as Florida can be in the summer, but it's still up there.

[Tall Traveler]

Originally Posted by cjseliga

I realize some people supposedly have a preference between the two, but I've lived in both Arizona (Tucson) for 7 years and the Carolinas (Durham and Columbia) for 7 and a half years, and to me it's basically a pick your poison, the heat in both places stinks!

And I know the Carolinas is not quite as humid as Florida can be in the summer, but it's still up there.

I've lived in the Carolinas and New Orleans area and the Carolinas are far better in the summer than the Deep South but I do agree that the Carolinas still have oppressive heat humidity, just nothing like New Orleans or Florida.

[wase4711]

Originally Posted by sder

You must not have been outside very much this summer. Mosquitos are a problem virtually every summer here now with all the greenery & irrgation but they were especially bad this year with all the rain. All the bugs have been horrible this year actually. My legs & feet always have bites on them in the summer here.

if you havent gotten any bug bites this year, then you havent been outside..
my wife and I have gotten TONS of them, easily more this year than in the last 3 or 4 years combined

[Katera]

I'm outside every day. No mosquito bites and I live a few hundred yards from a golf course. /shrug. In Texas I would get 2-3 bites walking to my car parked in my driveway. There is no comparison.

[Valley Native]

There could be any number of heat related threads comparing Phoenix to whatever. The fact is that while Phoenix is known for dry heat, other places have lower humidity values. If anybody wants dry heat during the majority of the summer, Las Vegas is more appropriate. Other than an occasional monsoon storm, it hardly rains there during the summer, and the humidity & dew points are usually much lower. The only truly dry part of Phoenix's summer season is June & early July, and when there are breaks in the monsoon pattern. Vegas is hot & dry pretty much all summer.

[Tall Traveler]

Originally Posted by Valley Native

There could be any number of heat related threads comparing Phoenix to whatever. The fact is that while Phoenix is known for dry heat, other places have lower humidity values. If anybody wants dry heat during the majority of the summer, Las Vegas is more appropriate. Other than an occasional monsoon storm, it hardly rains there during the summer, and the humidity & dew points are usually much lower. The only truly dry part of Phoenix's summer season is June & early July, and when there are breaks in the monsoon pattern. Vegas is hot & dry pretty much all summer.

Yes, Phoenix has more humidity in the summer than Vegas but I checked the current humidity in Phoenix and it was 28% compared to 98% where I grew up near New Orleans and 98% where my SIL lives in Florida and I can say from personal experience that Phoenix feels much lower humidity than the southeast. My BFF from Louisiana just came for a visit 2 weeks ago and loved the lower humidity here even though it is hot.

[Maroon197]

Originally Posted by Tall Traveler

Yes, Phoenix has more humidity in the summer than Vegas but I checked the current humidity in Phoenix and it was 28% compared to 98% where I grew up near New Orleans and 98% where my SIL lives in Florida and I can say from personal experience that Phoenix feels much lower humidity than the southeast. My BFF from Louisiana just came for a visit 2 weeks ago and loved the lower humidity here even though it is hot.

This is akin to being in Denver during a snow storm while it’s 8 degrees outside and saying, “yeah but it’s a dry cold. Not that nasty wet cold back east.”

Either way you are going to be sitting inside next to a heater.

[Tall Traveler]

Originally Posted by Maroon197

This is akin to being in Denver during a snow storm while it’s 8 degrees outside and saying, “yeah but it’s a dry cold. Not that nasty wet cold back east.”

Either way you are going to be sitting inside next to a heater.

Maybe for you but not for me, I still ride my bike almost every day of the summer here and end it often in the pool When I lived in cold country, I ventured outside only for essentials while it was cold so no outside activities other than shoveling snow and scraping ice for months.

[FlurryCat]

Originally Posted by Maroon197

This is akin to being in Denver during a snow storm while it’s 8 degrees outside and saying, “yeah but it’s a dry cold. Not that nasty wet cold back east.”

Either way you are going to be sitting inside next to a heater.

In fact, the dry cold of Denver at 8 deg far more tolerable than the raw, damp cold of Boston at 28 deg. Cold humidity is just as bad as hot humidity. Also, the light, fluffy snow is easier to move than the wet sludge you get near the ocean. And when the snow stops in Denver it's more likely the sun will come out and you can bundle up and go for a walk. In Boston when the snow stops it's probably because it switched to rain or sleet, which will permeate the snow then freeze up like rock. You can bundle up in Boston but any activity causes sweat-soaked clothing against your skin. You can take off a layer, but then the evaporation makes you put that layer right back on.

I spent way more time outside in Colorado in the winter than in Boston. I spend way more time outside in Arizona in summer than I did in Florida or Houston, or South Carolina.

[Maroon197]

Originally Posted by FlurryCat

In fact, the dry cold of Denver at 8 deg far more tolerable than the raw, damp cold of Boston at 28 deg.

No, it’s genuinely not. I’ve experienced both and 8 degrees is miserably cold no matter what. Which is exactly my point. No one is hanging out outside when it’s 8 degrees, just like no one is hanging out outside when it’s 108. The people who do are likely to end up as a news story. This entire topic is a whole lot of nitpicking for no reason. Humid, dry, whatever - extreme heat is extreme heat.