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Galveston averages 79.4F in July and 79.7F in August coupled with dewpoints in excess of 75F (usually 78-80F). Seems like nothing in the South can contend with it except the Florida Keys?
Great finds! Looks like the east coast of India has the hottest wet, humid average lows in the world, marginally beating downtown Bangkok and Ishigaki, Okinawa. Agra is interesting but doesnt look particularly humid in that month (perhaps as a result of drier and hotter first half of the month and more humid but lower temps in the second half as the monsoon increases in strength).
Ongole at 82.8F (28.2C) looks epic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visakhapatnam just north of it in May and June also look legendary at 81.9 and 81.1F so that region looks to be the one to beat. Whats odd to me is that Port Blair on the island of Andaman in the Bay of Bengal only has average lows around 73-74F similar to many other tropical areas around the world. I would assume that islands in that bay would have higher average lows than the coast of India?
Galveston is impressive. Why is the Texas gulf coast so much warmer at night than the gulf coast of Mexico? Houma in Louisiana is also only at 73-74F in the summer.
Galveston and Port Aransas at 79.6F in August are both impressive. Could there be some place around Taiwan that has higher average lows than Ishigaki in Okinawa though? 30C doesnt seem possible, and Ongole, India in June is the closest at 28.2C.
Galveston averages 79.4F in July and 79.7F in August coupled with dewpoints in excess of 75F (usually 78-80F). Seems like nothing in the South can contend with it except the Florida Keys?
Wow. Did not know that. Yup, So FL would be the only contender. Makes me glad I live a bit inland.
Galveston averages 79.4F in July and 79.7F in August coupled with dewpoints in excess of 75F (usually 78-80F). Seems like nothing in the South can contend with it except the Florida Keys?
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Wow. Did not know that. Yup, So FL would be the only contender. Makes me glad I live a bit inland.
It's kind of a given, though. Most of the other barrier islands in the SE US are either devoid of population, or are no more than small outposts/resorts (South Padre Island, Grand Isle, Dauphin Island, Edisto Island, etc. They don't have near the development that Galveston does, and, thus, don't have much (if any) UHI that adds to heat retention already provided by the surrounding water. Lower average lows ensue.
Miami Beach (which has substantial man-made area) and Key West are the only other substantial populated islands in the SE US, so will see notable levels of UHI along with Galveston; the average summer lows of both these locales are, thus, about the same as what is seen at Galveston.
While these barrier islands can get very humid and muggy, they have good sea-breeze, and high rainfall, to cool things down.
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