This is the typical Houston, Tx weather for most of the summer. The heat also might be slightly hotter in Phoenix. Many on this board have said that they plan on retiring down South like Texas, Florida or South Carolina. You might want to reconsider after these three days.
Is it hot enough?
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You haven't seen hot until you have been in 115 F plus heat in Phoenix. But it's a dry heat.
Not too bad here. Not cutting back on any outdoor activities or exercise. It's August on the East coast.
Not too bad here. Not cutting back on any outdoor activities or exercise. It's August on the East coast.
It was hot enough in June. This is just stupid. Some people hate winter and hibernate in February, but I think winters here are pretty mild. I hibernate in August.
This year I was in Phoenix on June 19th, the hottest day of the year there, our thermometer read as high as 122 degrees. Accuweather lists 118 as the high that day, at whatever location they record from, which I believe is the airport. The record temp at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport is 122 degrees (same as what our thermometer read downtown) in 1990. The hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth's surface was 134 degrees in Death Valley, CA.
It's been very hot and humid all summer here in Hilton Head. Ninety plus every day since June. OTOH, I didn't miss last winter the -14 and the 109" inches of snow we had in separate years in Madison, WI.
I'm in Charleston and it was about 95 with 90 percent humidity today at around 9 pm. Just brutal.
Play a sport for a living in Charleston SC or Shreveport LA for a summer if you want to know hot.
Spent the last two weeks in Dublin, Budapest, Vienna and Prague. No humidity. Sunny, beautiful with highs between 65 and 83 degrees. Cool at night. Great walking weather. Flying home today to the sauna.
It has been GREAT here, but I love New Jersey! Go Knights!
It has been GREAT here, but I love New Jersey! Go Knights!
Been in NC for 35 years, with the last 15 in the Sandhills, which is south central, not far from the SC border. Summers are awful. August always the worst. Temps and humidity levels and dew points so high. Brutal. Stand still too long and moss forms on your north side. Hard to imagine life here before air conditioning.
Just got back from Marco Island, FL and it was actually slightly cooler there than here during the day. Plus a nice ocean breeze of course and the evenings were actually pretty decent.
Oh well, looks like only 3 more days of this plus it will be September before you know it.
Oh well, looks like only 3 more days of this plus it will be September before you know it.
Played golf last July in Las Vegas on a 115 degree day.
One of the only knuckleheads on the course .....many locals stay indoors
Ah, Houston. July through late September, 95 degrees, 95 percent humidity, storms roll in off the Gulf at 2 or 3, dump their water in an absolute deluge, which doesn't cool things off but makes it more humid. I don't miss that at all!
Yep. If it's cold, you can always put on more layers.
Ah, Houston. July through late September, 95 degrees, 95 percent humidity, storms roll in off the Gulf at 2 or 3, dump their water in an absolute deluge, which doesn't cool things off but makes it more humid. I don't miss that at all!
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I remember it starting to get hot in April maybe only high 80's or low 90's but just as humid as July.
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I remember it starting to get hot in April maybe only high 80's or low 90's but just as humid as July.
Yep, in the winter, you can put on a coat and hat. You can light a fire. You can cuddle under a blanket. No one ever talks about being cozy when it is 90 degrees and 90% humidity.
I hasn't even hit 100. We've at most been in the low 90s all summer. It's AUGUST, that's how August works in NJ. Humid and 90s.
I'll take 115 in Phoenix over 95 in NJ any day of the week.
Loads of t-shirts in Arizona mocking the "dry heat" thing. It makes a difference. When hiking in 100-105 F Arizona heat, I barely break a sweat. Beyond 105 F, we avoid the outdoors. But the 105 F dry heat is much more preferred to 80 or 90 F heat with higher than 60% humidity here on the East Coast.
Lived for a couple of years in Wilmingon, NC, and summers were brutal there. Lived one summer in Charlotte, and remember driving to Wilmington. Charlotte was not bad in the summer. Once we were within an hour of the coast, the brutal humidity kicked in.
Problem with that is we get a perfect 55 degrees 30 times a year. I'll take 85 and sunny Oct-May in Phoenix
I'll take anything 30-70 in NJ over anything 85+ in Phoenix. There is a reason that they don't have daylight saving time in Arizona; they can't wait for the sun to go down.
Game time decision. On Sunday I'm committed to playing the first 9. After that depends on beer and heat.
