I understand the skepticism. I'm originally from Southern California, where summer temps can hit 113F or higher. I really thought I knew heat until I moved to Texas.
Friends out here tried to warn me that it was unlike the heat on the west coast, but I just laughed. Later that first summer, I thought I was living on the surface of the sun.
Just funnin’ as you would say. But yeah, I know the heat you’re talking about. Here’s it’s a dry heat. With flies. You don’t know flies until you’ve experienced them here. They swarm. Not the individual onesies or twosies - but swarm. Then you have the heat.