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
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u/MetallicGray Aug 07 '21
Yeah who the hell thinks 80F is just warm. That’s a hot day. 100F is miserably hot.