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Where I plan on retiring (NE Arizona), currently 86 degrees, 19% humidity with a chance of thunderstorms
If I remember right you'll be retiring in the mountains? Since I'm a couple hundred miles west of there...and in a Valley to boot!..it's a tad warmer. Right now it is 97, humidity 27%, partly cloudy w/10% chance of rain. For the next five, or so, days we'll be having 94-99 degrees, 68-71 night time lows and 30% chance of rain. So, hovering right AT 100 and somewhat humid but, really, not all that bad. I've lived where I had to deal with REAL humidity so I can appreciate what I have here.
If I remember right you'll be retiring in the mountains? Since I'm a couple hundred miles west of there...and in a Valley to boot!..it's a tad warmer. Right now it is 97, humidity 27%, partly cloudy w/10% chance of rain. For the next five, or so, days we'll be having 94-99 degrees, 68-71 night time lows and 30% chance of rain. So, hovering right AT 100 and somewhat humid but, really, not all that bad. I've lived where I had to deal with REAL humidity so I can appreciate what I have here.
Between the Show Low area and Heber-Overgaard.
I'll plant myself somewhere along Highway 260, LOL
(Although I still occasionally check the real estate in Williams ... but the taxes are higher in that county )
I'll be retiring with my husband... but I think choosing "lifestyle" communities is a bad idea.
We moved from So Cal (where my husband was born and raise) to here in Utah 21 years ago. We thought - and still believe - this is one of the country's best kept secrets. We've been able to buy and own a home (unlike our So Cal friends) - and growth here has been anything but fast.
We won't retire here because we are looking to not have to shovel snow <bwah!>.... but there are so many wonderful communities out there that are not yet on the map - and affordable.
9:30 p.m. in Arvada, Colorado--73 degrees and 23 % humidity with a cool breeze. Good sleeping weather after a hot day of 93 degrees and about 10% humidity. Temperature is still dropping, it will go to about 61 degrees. That is the why a high altitude semi-arid region is nice; it cools significantly at night with low humidity.
July 23---It is very hot and humid in New England today as most folks here know. I decided to do a little comparison of heat/humidity in places I considered living. The temp here at 3:30 pm is 93 degrees with 40% humidity. It's not any better along the Maine coast from bottom to top, and it's appreciably worse in the South, as one might suspect. Wilmington NC--arghh! Ann Arbor MI--68% humidity! The only place that would be more bearable would probably be the Denver area West to CA. Denver's hot today, 93--but a humidity level of only 22%. I don't understand "dew point levels."
So anyone looking to avoid summer heat AND humidity had better head West to Denver or states west of CO.
And, Brightdoglover, I eat my hat (or crow, or whatever, for claiming the humidity in these parts isn't so bad!)
Anyone else have reports?
I didnt check today - but a couple of these other days that we were 100 degrees, Eastport Maine was in the 60's! Out humidity is about 73% the last couple days i think - we are in the 5th heatwave of this summer. I dont like tons of snow, but since i'll probly rent, i hope to have it shoveled by someone else lol... I just cannot take this heat and humidity. (Oh, Eastport is one of the places i want to move, i have acquaintances that just moved there and opened up a business.) I would not move south of Boothbay Harbor probaby - it would still get too warm in the summers. I know Portland has been in the 90's this week also.
It's been hotter here in South Jersey all week than in Florida
Philly checking in: Right now (2:30 AM), it's 85 with 78% humidity...."feels like" 97. Total steambath out there.
Meanwhile, in Bradenton FL (Gulf coast), it's 76 with 92% humidity, yet "feels like" 76. So I don't totally get that heat index thing. All I know is, it's definitely been cooler in FL than up here.
When I loved in Southern CA, they used to claim the weather was "humid" once in a while, but they don't know "real" humidity. It was NEVER humid to me. And they never had bugs. I lived a mile from the ocean and was ALWAYS chilly at night, even in July. You could never go out without a sweater. I didn't need A/C in my condo. Well, maybe a couple times I wished I had it. And winters -- never went lower than the 40's. I could never wear my wool suits. It was really just ideal. I better shut up before I talk myself into moving back again.
Also, I was in Palm Springs in July one time. It was about 110 with low humidity. I'd heard a lot about this "oh, it's a dry heat" concept. Well, the dry heat didn't feel like a sauna but it did feel like a blast furnace. I also found myself constantly parched and thirsty from the lack of moisture in the air. I guess, given a choice, I'd take the dry heat, but it was still pretty stinkin' hot.
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