I live in the Albuquerque area (not city proper). My boss's wife is from Las Cruces (south-central NM, just north and west of El Paso, TX). He says her family's home is an old adobe home. Thick adobe walls, tile floors, shady overhangs. Says it's nice and cool in the house most of the summer.
We often vacation near Tampa...usually in January,sometimes February.But once we went there in October.
The heat and the humidity were outrageous.You couldn't walk ten feet without becoming soaked in sweat. I've been in dry heat too...95 degrees in Dubai.That feels a *lot* different than 95 degrees in Tampa.