Posted on 06/19/2005 7:24:17 AM PDT by wardaddy
Manhattan in the 90s can be as brutal as anyhwere too.
Thoughts?
NYC subway beats all for sweating in the summertime. Feels like a lava tube *lol*
Houston is #1 sweaty, no doubt.
You can tell the volume of sweat actually produced by how fast you dehydrate. Desert climates are more dangerous in this regard than hot/humid climates. I know, I've lived in both.
You sweat more in Phoenix, but it evaporates rapidly, so you don't have sweat soaking your clothes. In Florida, where I now live, I probably don't sweat as much out, but I feel sweatier becauce my clothes are saturated all the time.
Which cities are "sweatiest" depends on your definition.
I don't think I've been as miserably hot and sweaty in my life as one summer in Providence, R.I. when it was in the high 90s for a week. We had brown outs, the banks still insisted that people wear suits to work, the state and power companies gave orders to turn off the A/C to conserve energy! I finally escaped to my mother-in-law's near the Massachusetts shore and spent the next few days at the beach.
The Gulf Coast is the hottest damn place on Earth. Maybe not in total temperature, but defintely in real feel.
At least once a year, a station on the coast will report a heat index of 130 degrees or better
;)
When I was there none of the IRTs were air conditioned.
Houston is hot and humid. One gets some relief in Austin.
Phoenix can be in the 90's and you won't even break a sweat.
Even during our monsoon season, the humidity here can't hold a candle to those from Texas through the East half of the country.
I am more bothered by stifling humidity.
But...anything over 120 dry or not is hot. I worked a mine in Gilbues in western Bahia in Brasil where it is very dry and temps of 120 daily at the equator.
It was rugged too but differently...really wore you out yet was chilly at night. I've seen the same in Mojave.
But, one does not sweat near as much...or is not aware of said sweat.
I would probably opt for Miami as sweatiest but's it's far from hottest.
Folks are unprepared for Big Heat in the Northeast....like ice down South.
I lived on the Hudson in Upper Nyack with no AC in a carriage-boathouse and survived fine with a fan.
Yes, like last weekend when I was there. New York at 90 degrees feels much worse than Phoenix at 110. ;)
Yep...my daddy had me laying pipe through the swamps at Diamonhead at Bay St Louis and over at Lake Forest near Daphne and yep....it is hot. Keeping up on the ditchbank with that Cat 245 excavator made a man outta me for several teen summers.
But the pretty women make up for it.
That was kind of my view. 80 in New Mexico can be chilly almost.
80 in New Orleans and you're sweating.
But extreme temps are still damned hot.
Happy Fathers Day to All
GTC.
You're right.
Even though the temperatures west of Houston may be hotter, it's more comfortable than the coastal areas.
The humidity here in the Houston area is oppressive.
Air conditioning really is "Texas Life Support!"
Let's ask the expert. . .
((shudder))
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