Yeah. Sure. That’s absolutely true. Humidity will indeed make 81 degrees feel like 90 degrees. But there’s high humidity in Dallas and Houston and all of Florida, too. So, when it’s humid and actually 108…well, then it’s not even worth it to calculate how hot it feels. It’s just dangerously hot.
Sure, Nevada and Arizona don’t have the humidity. But they’ll get to 115-120. Humidity REALLY doesn’t matter, then.
But I guarantee, there will STILL be New Yorkers coming into this thread, pitching weird ideas about how the buildings still make it seem even hotter than that, somehow.
I’m a Canadian who hates all temperatures above 60, and I’ll tell you that humidity always matters. I had the luxury of traveling to Phoenix in July, and that was still more tolerable than anywhere that was 20 degrees cooler but 100% more humid. Heat isn’t so bad when sweating still works.
I once had a July layover in Moon Moon airport, as I like to call the ridiculously named travesty that is “Sky Harbor Airport” and went up to the roof to smoke. I’m telling you, going out towards the edge where it was more windy was like standing in a fucking blast furnace!
Add that, after getting maybe an hour of sleep since it was hotter than Beelzebub’s butthole, I missed three flights because their self check in machines couldn’t deal with me having a Scandinavian character in my name and they had one customer service worker for every 40,000 travelers and it wasn’t a great first visit to my then GF.
Okay, then maybe the hot and dry areas in the West aren’t as bad, as long as you have enough water. But in Texas and Florida, it regularly goes up above 105 and it’s 100 percent humidity, for long stretches of time. Basically 100 percent of the time, in Florida (and a lot of the Gulf Coast, in general).
I guarantee, there will STILL be New Yorkers coming into this thread, pitching weird ideas about how the buildings still make it seem even hotter than that, somehow.
Those guys are fine. It’s the “b-b-b-but y’all southerners don’t actually ever go outside, you’re in the air conditioning all the time, so NYC is still REALLY hotter, because people are out in the streets sweating more” responses that are annoying me.
Just say “yes, NYC isn’t the hottest place” and leave it at that. That would be the non-cringe thing to do. But they CAN’T leave it at that. They’re not physically able to.
I thought you said you went all through the thread. I guess you didn’t. You just lied and said you did. But okay, that’s fine. Here we go:
In the south, you’re probably driving around in an air conditioned vehicle, sitting in an air conditioned house, visiting an air conditioned business. Doubt your spending as little time outside as possible. In NYC, you’re walking all over the fucking place, waiting for a subway car, standing on a platform surrounded by 50 other people, climbing three flights of stairs to get out of the subway station and on to the street where you still need to walk 5 blocks to get where you’re going.
We just are actually outside, unlike all southerners who don’t do manual labor. Rain or shine, freeze or burn, NYC is in the 100 year old unventilated subway tunnels with trains venting the heat from their ACs in the summer…if you come to visit in August you’ll sweat more in NYC than August in Dallas.
AC to AC with the exception of going to the swimming pool/beach/river/lake.
So, again, you’re saying you read all through this thread? And you somehow missed those? Really? Okay.
The expectation was that unless I’d read it again upon return, then I’m a liar?
uh ok.
Also, they make good points. I don’t really get that they are saying it’s hotter in NYC than other places, which is the false claim this post makes to begin with.
Humidity changing temperature feel?
Yeah. Sure. That’s absolutely true. Humidity will indeed make 81 degrees feel like 90 degrees. But there’s high humidity in Dallas and Houston and all of Florida, too. So, when it’s humid and actually 108…well, then it’s not even worth it to calculate how hot it feels. It’s just dangerously hot.
Sure, Nevada and Arizona don’t have the humidity. But they’ll get to 115-120. Humidity REALLY doesn’t matter, then.
But I guarantee, there will STILL be New Yorkers coming into this thread, pitching weird ideas about how the buildings still make it seem even hotter than that, somehow.
I’m a Canadian who hates all temperatures above 60, and I’ll tell you that humidity always matters. I had the luxury of traveling to Phoenix in July, and that was still more tolerable than anywhere that was 20 degrees cooler but 100% more humid. Heat isn’t so bad when sweating still works.
I once had a July layover in Moon Moon airport, as I like to call the ridiculously named travesty that is “Sky Harbor Airport” and went up to the roof to smoke. I’m telling you, going out towards the edge where it was more windy was like standing in a fucking blast furnace!
Add that, after getting maybe an hour of sleep since it was hotter than Beelzebub’s butthole, I missed three flights because their self check in machines couldn’t deal with me having a Scandinavian character in my name and they had one customer service worker for every 40,000 travelers and it wasn’t a great first visit to my then GF.
Conclusion: settling Arizona was a mistake.
Okay, then maybe the hot and dry areas in the West aren’t as bad, as long as you have enough water. But in Texas and Florida, it regularly goes up above 105 and it’s 100 percent humidity, for long stretches of time. Basically 100 percent of the time, in Florida (and a lot of the Gulf Coast, in general).
No they haven’t and no they won’t
Ehhh, we’ve already had a couple “but ackshually” type situations.
I didn’t see those. I saw people saying “yeah humidity matters but you’re right”
Those guys are fine. It’s the “b-b-b-but y’all southerners don’t actually ever go outside, you’re in the air conditioning all the time, so NYC is still REALLY hotter, because people are out in the streets sweating more” responses that are annoying me.
Just say “yes, NYC isn’t the hottest place” and leave it at that. That would be the non-cringe thing to do. But they CAN’T leave it at that. They’re not physically able to.
maybe you could point to such an example.
it sounds like you just have cultural issues with city dwellers.
I thought you said you went all through the thread. I guess you didn’t. You just lied and said you did. But okay, that’s fine. Here we go:
So, again, you’re saying you read all through this thread? And you somehow missed those? Really? Okay.
The expectation was that unless I’d read it again upon return, then I’m a liar?
uh ok.
Also, they make good points. I don’t really get that they are saying it’s hotter in NYC than other places, which is the false claim this post makes to begin with.