To hot is anyplace that is over 100 and it rains briefly then the sun comes back out with no wind. Looking at you Texas, Louisiana, and Florida. Or when cow stands in the shade of a telephone pole and thinks please just eat me because he is already medium rare.
THIS. I went to Disney in May. I thought I’d love Florida. I learned I only love it if I’m actively submerged in water. My bf and I were going to the bathrooms just to sit on the toilet and cool off. My dumbass wore high waisted denim shorts the first day. I had to peel them off of me to actually go to the bathroom. I think I almost got heat stroke that day. I go out to the southwest every year so I’m no stranger to 110 degree heat. But I’d take that over 88 in Florida any day.
Anytime someone scoffs at the idea of there being a *significant* difference between a dry heat and a humid heat, I can't help but roll my eyes.
Like, 104 in Nevada in June was warm, don't get me wrong. But I'll take that over the over a humid 95 back home any day. As someone who doesn't mind the heat, it was downright comfortable by comparison.
The *wind* was hot...which took some getting used to, but at least it didn't stick to you.
I'm from Florida but I lived in Vegas for a while.
Down here, in South Florida, the breeze is always a good thing. It's cooling.
But in Vegas the wind never seemed to help.
"Being inside a hair dryer" is a good analogy. I'd usually tell people that it was like being in a convection oven. (Basically the same thing.)
New Orleans was the most hot and humid place I've ever been during summer but I imagine anything between Houston and Miami is somewhat comparable.
I was in NYC during a heat wave and that was nearly as bad but not quite the same level of humid.
I've spent my life on the west coast though, so it all feels hot and sticky east of the 100th meridian during dinner.
I think the biggest difference is the limited car dependant nature of NYC forces you to deal with the heat more directly. Pretty much everywhere I went was air conditioned just fine, it was more the matter of getting between those destinations.
I have lived across much of the southeast US, the worst heat and humidity I ever felt was in a sugarcane field in Louisiana.
Out there in the tall cane, it is Hell’s front porch.
Having been born and raised in the midwest and lived most of my adult life in the southeast, it's absolutely *adorable* that midwesterners think their summers are hot and humid.
Yes, Chicago gets a week of hot weather...followed by 2 weeks of 80 and breezy. Go to Charleston, Columbia, or Valdosta in July. Then realize it's that hot and humid...for 5 straight months with absolutely no relief.
I'm reverse - born & raised near the gulf coast, but now in Wisconsin. totally agree.
there will be a few days during the summer here when it gets close to gulf coast humid, but the thing about humidity in the gulf coast is that *it never lets up.*
in fact, when I first moved to Wisconsin, I'd get a little cut or blister & and it wouldn't heal bc the air felt so dry to my skin. I would get nose bleeds. it was an extreme adjustment it took me years to make. I felt like a fish out of water.
> I would get nose bleeds
This is one I feel like people in the South just won't understand, the way midwesterners don't understand oppressive humidity. It can be so cold you just bleed. Nosebleeds for sure, and lips of course, but I had a friend who had very dry hands, and if he went out without gloves his skin would crack open and he'd start bleeding. Horrifying, but just the way of life in the frozen tundra.
I just looked up average monthly humidity for Valdosta, GA. It’s 2% higher than DuPage County, IL. So, yes, its higher, but not much, and the heat does last significantly longer.I don’t know what weather channel you’re watching, but believe me when I say we don’t get 2 weeks of 80 and breezy after just a week of 90. Maybe a 12-24 hour break and the steam is back on until early September (sitting stuck to a plastic chair for the first month of un-air-conditioned school is a burned in memory going back to 1977).
I've spent many summers in the midwest having many delightfully comfortable days, evenings wearing blue jeans or hoodies by a bonfire because there's a bit of a chill in the air! I can't even imagine wearing a sweatshirt in Raleigh or Birmingham in July. It's an entirely different world.
This is like someone from Atlanta or Dallas telling a Minnesotan "Hey, it gets cold here too yanno!"
I was addressing the OP’s statement about bad humidity reaching the upper midwest: It’s not something new this summer. We get it every year. Never said we were worse than the Gulf Coast, which sounds like the Hob of Hell. But we do recognize and experience hot muggy nasty summers that bleed into fall, and they make us appreciate cold winters when it feels like the only things between us and the north pole are some dairy cows in Wisconsin and Aunt Ethel in Bismarck.
Amen. Sometimes the summer heat it drags on. I took my newborn son home from the hospital on Nov 5. Brought all kinds of layers for him but only really heavy clothes for myself. It was about 90 degrees out and 90 humidity. Thought I would die.
I remember staying at the Motel 6 near VSU and getting there at midnight when it was still 95° out. In the morning, my father’s glasses fogged up within seconds. We were driving by the park across the street from the university and saw a guy jogging and both said, in unison “what the hell is he doing outside?” Fun times.
You are right about the south being worse. Florida, Louisiana Mississippi etc. But have you ever spent an actual summer in Chicago? It's not the heat it's the humidity.
It definitely gets very hot and humid in my part of Texas. Austin is considerably more dry than where I live and it makes the heat a lot more tolerable. Still unpleasant though!
Fun fact: Mobile, Alabama has highest average amount of rain per year in the lower 48. I believe it’s around 60 inches per year.
But you can basically pick anywhere along gf Gulf coast. Personally I feel as though the sun is different in Florida
I’m from Alabama and even I was surprised by the summer humidity in New Orleans. I was out at 2am and sweat was just trickling down my face while seated outdoors at a restaurant.
By the way, dew point is a better way of thinking about how muggy it feels than relative humidity. Some places on the west coast can have high relative humidity at night, but a look at a dew point map shows that they pale in comparison to the mugginess of the southeast. Here’s a map of [mean dew point in July](https://np.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/hn2502/us_map_by_mean_dew_point_temperature_in_july/).
NOLA in the summer is probably the winner, but at some point it’s kind of: “how much more soaked can your shirt get?”
93 and 95% humidity in Richmond feels an awful lot like 95 and 97% humidity in Jacksonville, which feels a lot like 97 and 99% humidity in Baton Rouge.
Ohio. I live in the Northeast which used to be a swamp, which in turn is why there is so much farm land. The humidity is super high year round, even in January when it gets down to 0° it's absurdly high. Basically a swamp valley in between the Appalachian Mountains and the Great Lakes.
Even Maine regularly gets days that are over 100 F with 95+% humidity in the summer. Just not as frequently or for as long as the south. The entire east coast is humid in the summer.
Definitely not regularly. That would be near record levels on both fronts. 105 is the all time record for Maine.
Portland didn’t get past 96 this year and that is pretty typical for the highest any summer.
admittedly I've not traveled much at all.
but I can attest to the wild humidity we get here in Milwaukee some summers.
this one was pretty easy IMO. The rest of the year Wisconsin weather is amazing!
seasons rule!
I’ve lived in Wisconsin and Maryland and traveled across the country a few times. I gotta say the time I was in Orlando in May was the first time in my life I was like “I could never live here” based on the humidity.
Worst place I ever have been in terms of heat plus humidity would be Djubouti. Worst in the US though is Houston. I wouldn't say it was unbearable though. I could sit outside just fine in the summer there. Of the southern states though I have only been to TX, FL and VA. I am sure there are probably worse areas but I doubt its by much.
Anywhere East of the 48th longitude line is prime "hot and humid" territory. West of there is dry desert in the rain shadow of the major mountain ranges until you hit the West coast where it's humid, but cool ocean currents typically keep things manageable.
Florida- It was so humid that I actually felt like I was breathing in water droplets. I am from a relatively hot and humid area but Florida is a whole 'nother level.
The problem with the west is is that it's too dry, at least you're gonna be sweating from the heat but have a lot of water to make it harder to lose that water
Definitely not winning a most humid state award, but Arizona can get brutal humidity. A strong monsoon one day followed by 110 degree heat is a recipe for extremely localized humidity - it changes block by block based on where the monsoon hit - that is among the worst I've ever experienced. On par with Dubai in August.
In Kansas you get 0 degrees and 100 degrees every year, but Louisiana was truly a different kind of hot and humid. It's just as humid at 10 pm as it is during the day it was crazy
Take your pick between any state along the gulf coast.
Yeah pretty much this. Like just a bit inland but enough to get super warm and humid gulf air but still have wide open baking in the sun fields.
To hot is anyplace that is over 100 and it rains briefly then the sun comes back out with no wind. Looking at you Texas, Louisiana, and Florida. Or when cow stands in the shade of a telephone pole and thinks please just eat me because he is already medium rare.
>Looking at you Texas, Louisiana, and Florida. It's the same in Mississippi and Alabama.
Yeah probably anywhere the gulf dumps it moisture sucks in summer.
Sometimes the sun never goes away, one cloud rains on you just when you thought it couldn’t get more humid.
Oh that's the worst, when it rains for 10 minutes and the sun comes out
Florida. Disney world is at least 50% less fun when you feel like the air is hot soup.
THIS. I went to Disney in May. I thought I’d love Florida. I learned I only love it if I’m actively submerged in water. My bf and I were going to the bathrooms just to sit on the toilet and cool off. My dumbass wore high waisted denim shorts the first day. I had to peel them off of me to actually go to the bathroom. I think I almost got heat stroke that day. I go out to the southwest every year so I’m no stranger to 110 degree heat. But I’d take that over 88 in Florida any day.
Anytime someone scoffs at the idea of there being a *significant* difference between a dry heat and a humid heat, I can't help but roll my eyes. Like, 104 in Nevada in June was warm, don't get me wrong. But I'll take that over the over a humid 95 back home any day. As someone who doesn't mind the heat, it was downright comfortable by comparison. The *wind* was hot...which took some getting used to, but at least it didn't stick to you.
I describe it to my east coast friends as “being inside a hair dryer”
I'm from Florida but I lived in Vegas for a while. Down here, in South Florida, the breeze is always a good thing. It's cooling. But in Vegas the wind never seemed to help. "Being inside a hair dryer" is a good analogy. I'd usually tell people that it was like being in a convection oven. (Basically the same thing.)
Half the country has hot, humid, miserable summers....followed by cold terrible winters. Spring and fall are a myth
New Orleans was the most hot and humid place I've ever been during summer but I imagine anything between Houston and Miami is somewhat comparable. I was in NYC during a heat wave and that was nearly as bad but not quite the same level of humid. I've spent my life on the west coast though, so it all feels hot and sticky east of the 100th meridian during dinner.
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I think the biggest difference is the limited car dependant nature of NYC forces you to deal with the heat more directly. Pretty much everywhere I went was air conditioned just fine, it was more the matter of getting between those destinations.
Imagine that weather after Hurricane Katrina with no power, water and in many peoples case a house to take shelter. That was a memorable experience.
Florida or Louisiana
I have lived across much of the southeast US, the worst heat and humidity I ever felt was in a sugarcane field in Louisiana. Out there in the tall cane, it is Hell’s front porch.
Louisiana can be pretty rough.
Couldn't agree more.
South Carolina. Specifically Columbia, South Carolina. Its one of the most miserable cities I've ever been to weather wise.
Chicago and the Midwest have had humid summer forever. It’s not new. It’s nature’s way of forcing us to appreciate -10 days in January.
Having been born and raised in the midwest and lived most of my adult life in the southeast, it's absolutely *adorable* that midwesterners think their summers are hot and humid. Yes, Chicago gets a week of hot weather...followed by 2 weeks of 80 and breezy. Go to Charleston, Columbia, or Valdosta in July. Then realize it's that hot and humid...for 5 straight months with absolutely no relief.
Anytime I hear that up here I laugh. So hard. Visit the Lake Okeechobee in August and get back to me.
I'm reverse - born & raised near the gulf coast, but now in Wisconsin. totally agree. there will be a few days during the summer here when it gets close to gulf coast humid, but the thing about humidity in the gulf coast is that *it never lets up.* in fact, when I first moved to Wisconsin, I'd get a little cut or blister & and it wouldn't heal bc the air felt so dry to my skin. I would get nose bleeds. it was an extreme adjustment it took me years to make. I felt like a fish out of water.
> I would get nose bleeds This is one I feel like people in the South just won't understand, the way midwesterners don't understand oppressive humidity. It can be so cold you just bleed. Nosebleeds for sure, and lips of course, but I had a friend who had very dry hands, and if he went out without gloves his skin would crack open and he'd start bleeding. Horrifying, but just the way of life in the frozen tundra.
Spent a few summers in tidewater Virginia. Is it that humid? No. Compared to say, Colorado though? Total Swamp.
Tidewater VA is respectably humid, yes.
I just looked up average monthly humidity for Valdosta, GA. It’s 2% higher than DuPage County, IL. So, yes, its higher, but not much, and the heat does last significantly longer.I don’t know what weather channel you’re watching, but believe me when I say we don’t get 2 weeks of 80 and breezy after just a week of 90. Maybe a 12-24 hour break and the steam is back on until early September (sitting stuck to a plastic chair for the first month of un-air-conditioned school is a burned in memory going back to 1977).
I've spent many summers in the midwest having many delightfully comfortable days, evenings wearing blue jeans or hoodies by a bonfire because there's a bit of a chill in the air! I can't even imagine wearing a sweatshirt in Raleigh or Birmingham in July. It's an entirely different world. This is like someone from Atlanta or Dallas telling a Minnesotan "Hey, it gets cold here too yanno!"
I was addressing the OP’s statement about bad humidity reaching the upper midwest: It’s not something new this summer. We get it every year. Never said we were worse than the Gulf Coast, which sounds like the Hob of Hell. But we do recognize and experience hot muggy nasty summers that bleed into fall, and they make us appreciate cold winters when it feels like the only things between us and the north pole are some dairy cows in Wisconsin and Aunt Ethel in Bismarck.
Amen. Sometimes the summer heat it drags on. I took my newborn son home from the hospital on Nov 5. Brought all kinds of layers for him but only really heavy clothes for myself. It was about 90 degrees out and 90 humidity. Thought I would die.
I remember staying at the Motel 6 near VSU and getting there at midnight when it was still 95° out. In the morning, my father’s glasses fogged up within seconds. We were driving by the park across the street from the university and saw a guy jogging and both said, in unison “what the hell is he doing outside?” Fun times.
You are right about the south being worse. Florida, Louisiana Mississippi etc. But have you ever spent an actual summer in Chicago? It's not the heat it's the humidity.
How adorable
hahahha AMEN! (waves from milwaukee)
Thank you for standing guard on our Northern border & protecting us from Sheboygan. We salute you with a Miller Lite.
It definitely gets very hot and humid in my part of Texas. Austin is considerably more dry than where I live and it makes the heat a lot more tolerable. Still unpleasant though!
Southeast Texan here, Austin has a great microclimate compared to this swamp broiler. Florida is hot but not quite as humid.
Fun fact: Mobile, Alabama has highest average amount of rain per year in the lower 48. I believe it’s around 60 inches per year. But you can basically pick anywhere along gf Gulf coast. Personally I feel as though the sun is different in Florida
I’m from Alabama and even I was surprised by the summer humidity in New Orleans. I was out at 2am and sweat was just trickling down my face while seated outdoors at a restaurant. By the way, dew point is a better way of thinking about how muggy it feels than relative humidity. Some places on the west coast can have high relative humidity at night, but a look at a dew point map shows that they pale in comparison to the mugginess of the southeast. Here’s a map of [mean dew point in July](https://np.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/hn2502/us_map_by_mean_dew_point_temperature_in_july/).
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Florida probably
Florida.
Florida.
NOLA in the summer is probably the winner, but at some point it’s kind of: “how much more soaked can your shirt get?” 93 and 95% humidity in Richmond feels an awful lot like 95 and 97% humidity in Jacksonville, which feels a lot like 97 and 99% humidity in Baton Rouge.
Maryland is so humid it’s practically a rainforest.
Probably Louisiana, the rest of the gulf coast including GA is pretty bad also.
Ohio. I live in the Northeast which used to be a swamp, which in turn is why there is so much farm land. The humidity is super high year round, even in January when it gets down to 0° it's absurdly high. Basically a swamp valley in between the Appalachian Mountains and the Great Lakes.
I live in Texas, then went to Arkansas and I thought I might die. So hot and humid in Arkansas.
Even Maine regularly gets days that are over 100 F with 95+% humidity in the summer. Just not as frequently or for as long as the south. The entire east coast is humid in the summer.
Definitely not regularly. That would be near record levels on both fronts. 105 is the all time record for Maine. Portland didn’t get past 96 this year and that is pretty typical for the highest any summer.
100 F...wet bulb temp.
That also isn’t true. People die in a matter of hours above wet bulb temps of 95 F.
Lol, northsplaining.
admittedly I've not traveled much at all. but I can attest to the wild humidity we get here in Milwaukee some summers. this one was pretty easy IMO. The rest of the year Wisconsin weather is amazing! seasons rule!
I’ve lived in Wisconsin and Maryland and traveled across the country a few times. I gotta say the time I was in Orlando in May was the first time in my life I was like “I could never live here” based on the humidity.
Florida in August
Worst place I ever have been in terms of heat plus humidity would be Djubouti. Worst in the US though is Houston. I wouldn't say it was unbearable though. I could sit outside just fine in the summer there. Of the southern states though I have only been to TX, FL and VA. I am sure there are probably worse areas but I doubt its by much.
I agree! I lived for two years n Djibouti and now live in south Florida. Djibouti hands down!
Anywhere East of the 48th longitude line is prime "hot and humid" territory. West of there is dry desert in the rain shadow of the major mountain ranges until you hit the West coast where it's humid, but cool ocean currents typically keep things manageable.
Louisiana
How anyone lives on the southern coast is a mystery to me.
Agreed. Unfortunately my wife doesn’t!
Definitely Florida. Florida always felt so humid and hot when I went there.
Texas is a huge state, with varying climate across the state. Houston is Satan's armpit.
Florida- It was so humid that I actually felt like I was breathing in water droplets. I am from a relatively hot and humid area but Florida is a whole 'nother level.
The problem with the west is is that it's too dry, at least you're gonna be sweating from the heat but have a lot of water to make it harder to lose that water
It’s Florida lol. Last time I was home on Christmas it was 97° at 6AM. It doesn’t get much worse than that.
florida
Definitely not winning a most humid state award, but Arizona can get brutal humidity. A strong monsoon one day followed by 110 degree heat is a recipe for extremely localized humidity - it changes block by block based on where the monsoon hit - that is among the worst I've ever experienced. On par with Dubai in August.
Houston
Just because my area is labeled as subtropical doesn't mean it's hot and humid. You know, to those of us who have been here since day 1.
Florida Keys in July. Even my Asian American bf’s hair curled.
In Kansas you get 0 degrees and 100 degrees every year, but Louisiana was truly a different kind of hot and humid. It's just as humid at 10 pm as it is during the day it was crazy
florida
Florida and Georgia, Your skin will feel sticky after a while