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I would say anywhere along the Great Lakes. I grew up in Upstate NY (Buffalo area) and there's a constant breeze coming off Lake Erie that would make even the most humid of days tolerable.
Unless you want to be a "snowbird" the trade-off, of course, is battling brutal winters.
ALL of Upstate NY is humid in the summer! Yes, many areas have lake or ocean breezes, but it's still humid and it's extremely humid compared to AZ.
Lots and lots of disagreement about humid places, so far. No one has mentioned NW Arkansas or Indiana, or Tennessee yet. If I need an ocean breeze, I would have to suck it up and stay in a tent somewhere on the beach, cause real estate is way too expensive. Keep the ideas coming, folks.
All are incredibly humid. None of the above states are in a desert so there's humidity. And absolutely no ocean breeze unless you count the breezes from tornados.
Lots and lots of disagreement about humid places, so far. No one has mentioned NW Arkansas or Indiana, or Tennessee yet. If I need an ocean breeze, I would have to suck it up and stay in a tent somewhere on the beach, cause real estate is way too expensive. Keep the ideas coming, folks.
I lived in Ft. Wayne, Indiana. We used to call it FT Rain. No, its not dry. NW Arkansas the same. My DIL lived there and has complained about all the rain. TENN. I don't have personal experience, but they also have high pollen amounts, as does most of the midwest. AS I said, you're going to have to look to the western part of the USA. For example, we usually have dry air. We only get 18 in. of rain a year. That's a start, but go to Dallas or OKC and the humidity in summer goes up. But they also get about twice the rainfall we get in west Texas. Go south and west of here, and it gets even drier.
I talk to people there regularly in L.A. and OC and they have complained about the humidity the past few summers so please don't just say California. The Central and Bay area coastal areas, I can agree no humidity. But, inland areas or SoCal no way. Just dry heat and laden with smog and pollutants.
Regions just change and historical weather data does not account for 30 million people in the state, maybe 18 mil in LA.,OC and San Diego driving. 100+ years ago with a popualtion of maybe a few hundred thousand nobody was driving.
That SoCal summer warmth and humidity is not continuous, it's only when the SW Monsoon reaches into CA (nromally it's limited to AZ, NM, UT, NV, etc). Only a few days per year. Generally speaking the relationship of cool and higher RH or warm and lower RH holds true even in SoCal.
For all of the myriad wonderful reasons to live and to retire in the United States, it seems to me that weather/climate just isn't one of them. Across the lower-48, in most places either the summers are scorching or the winters are brutal (and in many places, both!); tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes. Short transitional seasons, high humidity, howling winds. It's rare to find a genuinely mild and stable climate, where standard-deviations are small, where year after year is predictable, where winters aren't Siberian and summers aren't African.
Consider for example Western Europe. No, I wouldn't want to pay their taxes or deal with their innumerable demographic issues. But the weather! For most of the year, it's possible to wear a business-suit and neither sweat nor freeze. Snow, when it comes, is a brief dusting, melting quickly. Heat-waves are short, severe weather is rare.
For all of the myriad wonderful reasons to live and to retire in the United States, it seems to me that weather/climate just isn't one of them. Across the lower-48, in most places either the summers are scorching or the winters are brutal (and in many places, both!); tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes. Short transitional seasons, high humidity, howling winds. It's rare to find a genuinely mild and stable climate, where standard-deviations are small, where year after year is predictable, where winters aren't Siberian and summers aren't African.
Consider for example Western Europe. No, I wouldn't want to pay their taxes or deal with their innumerable demographic issues. But the weather! For most of the year, it's possible to wear a business-suit and neither sweat nor freeze. Snow, when it comes, is a brief dusting, melting quickly. Heat-waves are short, severe weather is rare.
Western European climate equivalent in the US = [Pac NW (Marine West Coast Climate Zones) + CA (Mediterranean Climate Zones)] x West of the Cascades/Sierra/Peninsular Ranges. Unfortunately, East of the Cascades/Sierra/Peninsular Ranges maps to Asia. The Intermountain maps to Western and West Central Asia and the areas East of the Rockies map to East Central and East Asia. Roughly, Maine would be something like SE Siberia coastal areas, Florida like South China, the other corners at the Southern and Northern ends of the High Plains map into something like a Pakistan - Northern Kazakhstan transect.
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