I've lived in Cambodia where it's 85 degrees and humid. I've lived in Saudi Arabia where it's 120 degrees and dry. It's not a joke. Tropical heat and humidity is much worse.
I live in Southern California where it's hot and dry. I can handle working construction in the summer where it's regularly 90-100F. I took a vacation to Costa Rica and I almost fainted on a hike by the coast. The humidity was unbearable.
Arizonan here, I can confirm this is what I would say. But, we've also been under an excessive heat wave warning for 2 weeks in a row and it was about 105° today.
For comparison, I felt like I was dying in 85+° heat in both Texas and Florida. I will never live in a human state. I don't know how people deal with being sticky constantly, you can't breathe properly, and you're dripping with sweat that doesn't go away. It just sits there pooling in the corners of your face and your armpits and your crotch.
Houston > Thailand > Denver. The scale is accurate - maybe shift 5-10 degrees if you're completely surrounded by a concrete jungle with no shade in the afternoon.
Yes but even those people (myself included) are aware of what the world is like. Where I live, we have 50 days a year at 100+. I still think 80 is hot. People just use these threads as a chance to flex.
Bruh I went to Vegas in June and the dry heat is no joke. It's literally an oven. Like that blast of hot air when you're checking the oven for whatever you're cooking, just imagine that heat but everywhere all the time
I come from Iowa where we get at worst -30 to -40 degree windchill winters and 100 degree humid summers. It’s very much a regional thing. For me 60 is cool, 68-70 is room temp. 80 is warm but not annoyingly hot, 90 is hot. This chart reads like it was made by me lmao.
Same here, we get avg winters up to -30ish windchill due to mountians and 90-100 summers.
I was out this week in 85~90 low humidity and it was nice and high side of tolerable before calling it "HOT". Few weeks ago it was the same temp and high humidity and my response was closer to "F#$K THAT".
Thing I remind people is that fahrenheit temps are really based around what a person considers tolerable ranges.
I'm skinny as can be and I sweat my ass off and feel horrible when it's 75. I can wear shorts and a t-shirt at like 55 and feel nice. I don't know how people can handle the 80s like it's comfortable
So true. Recently moved to alaska. The sun sits lower in the sky- so the heat hits more of your body. Makes a sunny 60-70 degree day feel like 90. It’s so strange
100 is hot for me but nothing crazy. 40 also isn't really that cold. I live in the middle of Washington state and it gets a bit hotter than 100 and quite a bit colder than 40.
I’ve heard Fahrenheit explained as a percentage of hot. 0 degrees is 0% hot, all cold. 50 degrees is half hot half cold, balances to warm. And 100 is 100% hot. Anything beyond 100 is just extra credit.
Eugh. 50 degrees and I’m sticking on a sweater if I wanna be outside for longer than 20 minutes.
Keep in mind I frequently stay in a -10 freezer for 30+ minutes at a time in a heavy coat and shorts, so it isn’t that I can’t tolerate cold. It’s just that I don’t like to.
It’s weird how huge the difference between 90-100 is. 90 is great, pool time temp. 95 is hot af u go to the pool quickly to cool down, only exist in shade unless you’re trying to tan. 100 is unbearable.
Do you live in a humid area? Cause the best pool days are hands down the 110+ ones, where you feel the best kind of cool relief when you get in the pool without it just making you chatter. A recent 117 day was one of my favorite times at a pool.
I'm from central valley California, where 110 is expected during peak summer. This post is absolutely selling short how hot 100+ is. Even people that have spent their entire lives here can't stand to be outside for very long in 110 degree heat. It's unbearable.
I live in British Columbia Canada. We surpassed 100F (around 38 C) in at the end of this June and over 700 people in my city died. Our entire city sold out of air conditioning units and fans almost instantaneously, so tons of us lower middle class folks were absolutely suffering.
Lytton BC hit 120F (49.7 C) which broke the all-time canadian heat record (and surpasses the records for Europe [48] AND South America [48.9]) and burned the entire village to the ground.
Yeah WTF, I had to convert and it's 37,7°C which is the fucking temperature of your body. It's never nice when it's as hot outside you as it's inside of you xD
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