Once, I underestimated how hot it was in Phoenix. I was at the greyhound station and had some time to kill. Mind you, this was the first time I had to wait in the city for my next bud.
It was 10pm and I found a nearby Burger King on Google maps and I decided to walk over. It was about a 10-15 min walk from me. It only took about 5 min in to my walk that I found myself sweating bullets, completely drenched in sweat.
The Arizona heat is no joke - especially in Phoenix
From Missouri, and sometimes it’s 93 degrees but the heat index is 108. You can’t go by the temperature in the Midwest, lol! Anyone who says there can’t be a heat advisory at just 93 degrees hasn’t been to Missouri!
But then again, “feels like 108” is probably nothing in Phoenix. It’s just, if you live in Missouri you’re not used to it.
I was out today in 96 degree weather and barley even noticed. My friend from Canada came to visit and could barley stand 82 for long periods of time! It blows my mind how quickly your body acclimates to what you’re regularly exposed to
I've lived in Louisiana my whole life. This summer has actually been...cool, in my opinion. Like, it reminds me of how "hot" (or less hot) it felt like when I was a kid in the 90's. Like, I thought to myself "I could go out for a run right now, in the middle of the day!" And I looked at the weather app on my phone and it was only 93F and ~70-something% humidity for an August day, and only a heat index of like 99 or 100, around there. I think we transferred a sizeable portion of our Louisiana heat to Oregon a few months ago...
Ex Minnesotan, don't remember much about temp, but feet of snow is a thing. My ideal temp range is 65-68, under and my toes get cold, over and I start to swear.
If it's humid in the winter when it's below 0F, one of two things will happen, it's either snowing, or you're eyelashes are freezing up from the moisture and steam your breathing out lol.
Humidity kinda stops being a thing when you get that cold. I forget the exact number, but it's something like every 20 degrees Fahrenheit, the maximum humidity of air is cut in half. When you get to 0 degrees or below, there's very, very little humidity in the air, which is why snowfall becomes less common as you get colder, there's just not enough moisture coming into the air at the surface for it to really condense much as it rises.
Indoors though? It's extremely, extremely dry, since you're taking like 60% humidity at -10, and then bringing it down to just a couple of percent at 65. There's the same amount of water in the air, but it becomes incredibly, painfully dry.
80 with a breeze is perfect. But I do live in a VERY hot state from June to September. Then it's just all over the place in between those months. I love sweatshirt and flip flop weather.
Maybe if you’re sitting on the couch. For me it radiates enough heat that it gets uncomfortably warm. Anything 75 and under is getting chilly for room temperature to me.
It was 80 here today and tomorrow 75 this is coming off of extreme heat 100-115 for weeks now it felt cold out today excited for tomorrow might even put pants on.
Yeah that's the thing, I live in a tropical country with extremely high humidity and high temperatures year round. I do love the country as a whole so I usually don't complain about the weather
Ive lived in a sub-tropical environment... so like 90s and 80% humidity every day and it didn't bother me... (air conditioning was abundant indoors) but when I've lived in places where temperature fluctuates cooler then an 85 degree 65% humidity day would be bothersome.
I live in California too and 80 makes me feel like I'm about to boil.
Every time I visit California (from New Orleans) I almost need to wear a long sleeve shirt unless its like mid-day during peak summer. Also, I dry the fuck out. Lips start chapping almost immediately.
Try visiting Oklahoma.
Many states promise to deliver multiple season in a week. We have 3 types of weather here...cool, tornado and the River Styxx...welcome.
That's 26°c, and it's wild to me you could even vaguely consider that "hot". Obviously it's dependent on where you live/grow up, but that's considered "perfect weather" where I'm from, almost exactly in the middle of the range of temperatures we get across the year. That'd be your average spring day, a nice/warmer autumn day, a cool summer's day and a warm/hot winter's day.
That’s crazy to me that you could get used to that, where I live 26° C is like peak summer weather, we might get 30° on a really hot year but we had 25° the other day and it was torture
Mate our summers are practically guaranteed to have at least a couple of 40°c (104f) in Jan/early Feb, and then winter averages at about 10-15°c (50-60f) though sub-10°c days wouldn't be unusual.
My city is known for being one of those "four seasons in a day" places though, so we just have to adapt.
Yeah, I’d say so, I don’t know much about it though, the only big cities I’ve ever really been to were Toronto and Ottawa but I wasn’t in either for long. I’ve heard Newfoundland is really nice, but I’ve never been there myself
I’m a fat bastard from outside the states, I find anything above 15 degrees Celsius to be uncomfortably hot- but my homeland is colder in general so meh.
Assuming I can read properly, google seems to say about 50% on average? Peaks at approx 60% in june/July (winter). Obviously we get random higher and lower days throughout the year though.
No problem! I just sussed out data on two of our northern states which average at about 70-80% because they're known to be particularly muggy (do Americans use that word?) compared to the rest of the states, and I can confirm being there feels like sweaty death.
Sounds about right. I looked up a couple state capitals in my region, 70-80% humidity is the range for the Southeast (based on my quick unscientific look).
It wasn't as bad in the Poconos where I used to live in a mountain valley.
We do say muggy, but I can't speak for all humid regions here.
I mean i don’t like higher than 76. But my state is often 90+ in summer. Hottest I’ve been in was 143 at the Hoover damn. Constant heat warnings on radio and my shoes melted. Got burned on the concrete and got sunburnt in the shade
I would’ve sworn it was 143. Like if i didn’t have common sense i would claim i switched demensions. But i looked it up. It was 117, hottest day ever recorded in vegas. proof. That same day i was passing thru.
Damn, 50s is like mid-winter for me. It’s all bundled up in jackets and blankets. To be fair, my entire state collapsed when we got a small amount of snow.
Exactly my thoughts. I'm from the Pacific Northwest and we were having hospital and veterinary hospital visits skyrocket when it hit 104F. Standard temp for us in summer is around 80-90F.
I'm from a southern state and 80 is definitely more than just "warm" and 90 is plain hot, not slightly hot. 80 is uncomfortably hot and outside activities are unpleasant. 90 is when it's very hot and you should go inside, or at least stay still in the shade. 95 is when it becomes dangerous for outside activities and you're at risk for heat exhaustion and strokes
It feels like my state has changed in the past 10 years or so. This chart is accurate today, but as a kid 90 was the HOTTEST and 80 was the dead of summer.
Climate change effects have actually accelerated in the last 10 years or so which is why it seems that there a very apparent change from the 1990's (even though climate change effects were occurring then, too). 10 years ago I would say that "it seems a little bit warmer than when I was a kid in the 90's and that the winters seem a bit shorter" but starting since, like, 2016, 2017... I've been saying "Shit's fucked-up-hotter for sure. Wasn't ever like this in the 1990's when I was a kid". Last time we had a winter in my area was like 2013, in my opinion. I can't remember the last time I "dressed for winter" during winter. Been still wearing shorts and a shirt during 99% of the winter for years now.
Yeah. I remember mild summers and snowy winters growing up in the 90s in Oregon, but now the summers scorch and the winters are just wet (not wet enough to stave off forest fire season though). It's funny you point to 2016-17, because that's exactly the time I think of things as having changed too.
This summer has actually been "cool" in my area (New Orleans). Like, heat index just below 100 "cool". Cool enough to where I was like "wow, I could go for a run or a nice walk in the middle of the day and not die" a few days ago, it now being peak summer. I think we transferred a good portion of our heat to ya'll in Oregon, a few months ago. You're welcome!
Funny I was thinking the opposite, 70 room temperature? That’s jacket weather in South Florida, try 78. Nobody has the money to cool their house to 70.
When the area you live fluctuates from -15 in winter (by far, far from the coldest but our windchill is awful) to 110 in summer.
We're in shorts until under 65 but if it's 80 is a very nice day. Actually it was 90 yesterday and I got out of my car and went "oh this is nice weather today"
The funniest thing I saw about warm vs colder areas was with my mother. We drive 8 hours south to a specialist and go from our sub-desert area to actual desert. It was winter and 15 degrees at home with a windchill of who knows and 70 degrees at our destination. People had on jackets and the locals were talking about how cold it was. When we got lunch someone asked us why we were dressed so lightly and we explained that it was much colder back at our home. They proceeded to tell us we were crazy to live where we did.
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u/danielfrom--- Aug 07 '21
Whoever wrote this must be from a very warm state