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, I'm looking right now and you have a 76 degree dew point at 10PM. WTF is it like at 2AM? 80 degrees? That's horrible.
The humidity down here is choking
, I'm looking right now and you have a 76 degree dew point at 10PM. WTF is it like at 2AM? 80 degrees? That's horrible.
Got in the pool to cool off. It was almost a hot tub. Was not refreshed.
Truth. I love going into the Sierras in the summer and the dew points are in the 30s. feels amazing, especially at night when the temperature drops into the 30s.
Bull . Quite a bit of relative humidity when the monsoons start rolling into the valley and just tease you all afternoon(and the temps are in the 100's)...followed by dirt and wind.
Maybe its different in other regions of AZ.
I've spent some time in the midwest(Missouri,Tennessee) and yes,the humidity out there(when the temp is in the 90's) is brutal in a different way.
If the monsoons here weren't so void of actual rain here anymore the summers in PHX would be tolerable IMO...but there's no payoff for the brutal heat and afternoon humidity rise anymore.
http://www.azfamily.com/weather/?nTa...&iq_id=7416584Heatwave continues across Arizona as record temperatures arrive
Updated today at 5:36 PM
PHOENIX -- Record heat hit the Valley Saturday, as temperatures reached 119 at Sky Harbor International Airport.
Saturday's high broke the previous record for June 29, which was set in 1994 at 117. Saturday's temperature was also the hottest it's been in Phoenix since 1995.
Overnight temperatures Saturday night will still be around 90. The high in Phoenix on Sunday should be around 115. The current record stands at 115. We’re looking for a high of 112 on Monday.
Excessive Heat Warnings continue for the lower deserts and some high elevation communities until 8 p.m Sunday. An Ozone Health Watch is in effect Saturday for Maricopa County including Metro Phoenix.
Humidity, smoke and clouds are pushing into the area from the east, so we’re calling for partly cloudy skies in the Valley.
With the increase in humidity, we will see showers and isolated thunderstorms develop each afternoon in northern and eastern Arizona through the start of next week. Some of these storms could produce some blowing dust or gusty winds in the Valley, but moisture should stay out. For now, we will include a 10 percent chance of t’storms in the Valley for Monday night.
A gradual cooling trend kicks off Tuesday. By Independence Day, highs across the Valley should be around 107.
I wish it was December already
Isn't Alabama the state that gets really ed with humidity? Them and Mississippi? Any time I have been out there it made even Houston feel like the desert humidity-wise.
New Orleans is brutal with humidity too
What are the dew points like? Relative humidity is meaningless when it comes to comfort. E.g., 52% RH at 95 degrees is hideous while 100% RH at 65 feels fine. The current dewpoint of 40 degrees F in Phoenix must be nice.
Even then it's low humidity. As long as the dew point is below 53 the evaps work. If the evap is effective the humidity is rendered "harmless."
If you're outside for even 2 minutes you'll start sweating. I run stairs in this weather, though
I'm usually more worried about getting carjacked there though, so I don't pay much attention to the humidity tbh.
That's weird, Bum. We're thinking alike.
What are these evaps you're talking about? Meaningless for the San Antonio area anyways I guess, since the dewpoint is consistently below 53 only in the winter usually.
Sounds ty. Can't cool yourself because none of your sweat evaporates and you can't breath ing water vapor.If you're outside for even 2 minutes you'll start sweating. I run stairs in this weather, though
My bad,i meant the humidity relative to the other 9 months of the year here....not the actual RH number.
Maybe i've just lived here too long
It is dry as a bone here all year long,except for a few storms during monsoon season(and December),but like i said...there's just no rain to cool things off anymore and the elevated humidity levels are not making things any better. It does not "feel nice."
Anyone here live in the Northwest? Thats probably where i'll end up in 10 years. the desert.
Evaporative coolers I believe. The cooling towels work pretty good if you're near a fan too, even in high humidity.
An evaporative cooler. A large "box" set outside with vents on the sides. Pads set on the inside of the 4 sides and water is run thru these pads and a fan is on the inside of the box dragging the outside air thru the pads and on into the house. It works great and is less than 1/4 the cost of A/C. I love my old cooler.
I know its opposite conventional wisdom, especially since I'm asthmatic, but dry heat ing sucks. It suuuuuuucks, and I hate it.
Granted, I don't like the heat and humidity we get here in New Orleans during the summer. Not a bit. But I lived ten years in central California where summers are dry as a bone, nary a cloud in the sky, a barely perceptible "delta breeze," several days in a row of 100+, with the hottest temperatures not coming until the evening, and things MAYBE cooling to the high 70s in the middle of the night, and that 's for the birds. It's relentless. Opening the front door feels like walking into a blast furnace.
More than anything, what I hate living in New Orleans is the blazing, tropical sun. The change in la ude makes it a completely different beast from the sun I was used to in California. But once you come to terms with the fact that summer is just going to be oppressively hot and sweaty no matter what, nights, overcast days, and rainy days don't bother me anywhere near as much as I would have thought before moving here. It's really just the evil sun that scares me back inside.
That said, I lived all those years in central California without air conditioning in my house. I ed about it, but I survived. I don't think I could do that here. In fact, the two times my central air stopped working last summer, I made it one night before justifying the expense of a hotel room.
Yes. Yes it is. After walking the seven whole blocks from the streetcar to work yesterday morning, I was so drenched I had to change clothes in the stock room before opening.
It wasn't until living here that I even knew it was possible for the humidity to be at 100% and it not be raining.
Miami in a nuts , too. A lot of weather parallels between these two cities. When i lived in Louisiana they used to have a saying, something like: "If you don't like the weather, stick around for a couple minutes." Miami is like that as well--where it can go from sunny to torrential downpour in the blink of an eye. Although, this is the only place I've lived where I've seen it raining in the front yard and have it be dry in the backyard. Just 2 days ago I was driving southbound on the Palmetto and it was raining in the far left lane but dry in the 2 right ones
There was a day last summer I was driving home from Baton Rouge and it was completely dry, but about two car lengths ahead of me I could see a downpour like a wall of water I was about to drive into. It was more like a shower head than a rainstorm. Or like a super-sized version of one of those cartoon rainclouds that just follows one person. One of the craziest looking things I've seen.Miami in a nuts , too. A lot of weather parallels between these two cities. When i lived in Louisiana they used to have a saying, something like: "If you don't like the weather, stick around for a couple minutes." Miami is like that as well--where it can go from sunny to torrential downpour in the blink of an eye. Although, this is the only place I've lived where I've seen it raining in the front yard and have it be dry in the backyard. Just 2 days ago I was driving southbound on the Palmetto and it was raining in the far left lane but dry in the 2 right ones
I have only been to Florida once in the early 90s, but I remember playing golf at Disney World a few times. It rained pretty much on the dot at 3:30 every day hard, but only for 20 minutes. They just advised us to wait and keep playing before we went out. I grew up in quick changing weather in TX but nothing like that.
Yeah, those are fine in dry climates.
That's how it is in tropical weather. I remember vacationing in Costa Rica a few years ago and 5 o'clock on the dot, it rained like crazy. Technically you didn't need a watch because if it was raining, you knew it was 5 o'clock.
So here in Texas, they said we're going from today with record highs close to 110s and then later this week, the lows are going to be in the mid 60s... which would also be a record. Crazy stuff.
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