[wildcard_redneck]

I have lived in both Phoenix, Arizona and Houston, Texas and I can tell you 100° with 40% humidity is more miserable than 119° with 14% humidity.

[Az Joe]

https://windy.app/blog/how-to-read-heat-index-chart.html

[ElkGroveDan]

I have lived in both Phoenix, Arizona and Houston, Texas and I can tell you 100° with 40% humidity is more miserable than 119° with 14% humidity.

Totally agree. I've lived in LA and now Phoenix, not Houston but spent weeks at a time there and across the South on business many years ago. I'd take low humidity 110-120 over 85 degrees and humid any day.

[b4me]

so true! even 75 degrees with 50% or so humidity gets sweltery. I miss the dry heat

[Tea Party Terrorist]

These westerners are clueless on heat. Miami at 92 is much worse than Las Vegas at 110.

[JustaTech]

I have lived in both Phoenix, Arizona and Houston, Texas and I can tell you 100° with 40% humidity is more miserable than 119° with 14% humidity.

Dew point is the better metric for comfort, and that metric makes your point. Lower is better.

119 degrees @ 14% relative humidity equates to a 57 degree dewpoint.

100 degrees @ 40% relative humidity equates to a 71 degree dewpoint, which is very juicy. Basically like a hot wet towel in the face.

Dew point is the metric we use to know if our swamp boxes will work well, or not. Though the air temperature component has its own significance as well. A swamp box isn't much good in the daytime if the dew point is higher than 50F, but is much better at night with same dew point. We don't yet have the perfect swamp box effectiveness metric, IOW.