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CoastalMaine · 08-25-2009, 10:39 PM

I'm with you GraniteStater. It's been NASTY in New England for the last week. Supposed to ease back to normalcy towards the end of the week.

I love temps from 50-70 with humidity well under 70%. Over 62% sends me into a sweating mode. Not glistening. Outright sweating. NASTY!!! Keep that crap down in the tropics, please!!!

Conn Pam · 08-26-2009, 06:38 AM

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Originally Posted by GraniteStater

Luckily, dewpoints that are above 70F are not too common in NH. I can still remember the nightmarish humidity levels in KC. The highest dewpoint I experienced was 81F. I never want to feel air that humid ever again

The strangest thing ever...this morning when I got up it was 67 degrees outside with 95% humidity. Odd??? I couldn't get back into the house fast enough. This was at 5:30 AM, it is now 71 degtrees at 8:36 am and I do not want to even check humidity levels.

It truly has been a strange spring and summer. I have never, not ever in all my 61 years seen a time when I had to wear a sweater on our deck in mid-july then have it be so humid in August that I have spent a good portion of this month inside. Weird.

§AB · 08-26-2009, 08:53 AM

71 degrees at 8:30am in summer is very ordinary, not even warm, regardless of humidity.

dxiweodwo · 08-26-2009, 01:56 PM

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Originally Posted by §AB

71 degrees at 8:30am in summer is very ordinary, not even warm, regardless of humidity.

I would agree....but you have to remember that depending on where in CT she is that's probably a full 10 degrees above normal.

But I agree with you, I would KILL for a 71 degree morning here right now.

§AB · 08-26-2009, 05:26 PM

A full 10 degrees above normal? Whoa that sounds as bad as melbourne's summer mornings

dxiweodwo · 08-26-2009, 05:34 PM

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Originally Posted by §AB

A full 10 degrees above normal? Whoa that sounds as bad as melbourne's summer mornings

Yeah most places that are inland in the northeast average in the lower 60's for their average low in July...so I imagine by now their average low is around 55 or 56.

§AB · 08-26-2009, 05:38 PM

Melbourne's average low in January is a pathetic 59F/15C, so they are actually warmer

dxiweodwo · 08-26-2009, 05:43 PM

^^

Yeah but your seasons don't change nearly as quick...

By October most places have their average lows close to 40.....and by November it's below 30...seasons change quick in a 4-season climate.

susancruzs · 08-26-2009, 06:30 PM

71 at 8:30??? This summer I'm lucky if I get 71 at noontime or 2:00 in the afternoon, not happening!

Plus now they are talking cooler than normal temps for the weekend, just what do they think we've been having, for pete's sake?????

11thHour · 08-27-2009, 12:33 AM

The least tolerable weather to me is the high heat/high humidity combo. It just shuts me down! I feel miserable in it, almost sick. I lived in Houston for a couple years for a job that involved traveling all over the US, Canada, and Mexico. Personally, I found the SE US region the most inhospitable.

I can handle dry heat though. 70% humidity at 80°F is just foul, but while I was in Phoenix last week it hit 108°, and it didn't seem that bad!

I haven't been there, but I always imagined Dubai as hell on earth, very hot, and right next to the ocean. No thanks!