I live at the following coordinates…about 36° 5′ 44″ N / 79° 26′ 17″ W. Damn it’s hot, and humid. The temperature is about 95 – 100 degrees and the humidity is about the same. Feels like fucking Kolkata. I’m telling you, miserable. Stretch is even moving slow, and that is unusual. Anyway, the only way to beat the humidity, is to run from it. The Humidity Monster doesn’t care. You would do well to remember that. It takes no prisoners. It will wear you down. Fact. I can stand the heat, but humidity is a different ballgame, and I like to sweat.. I’m serious, this is unusual at my latitude. It’s a fucking Sauna. I’m talking HOT and HUMID.
Big difference between Dry and Wet heat. I have many friends who live in the “West”. They talk and brag about high temperatures, like in Arizona, West Texas, New Mexico, etc, …blah blah blah. They can not handle the Wet Heat. Most of ‘em admit it. I don’t care if it’s 130 degrees out West, If it is 100 or 104 degrees in the East, and the humidity is in the high 90’s, or approaching 100%…it is very difficult to manage. I will say, South Louisiana, Southeast Texas, Mississippi, Alabubba, and Florida are in the game.
Where is the most uncomfortable humid place you’ve ever been? Just curious. Not trying to say I’ve been more humid than you.
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Without a doubt, Memphis. There’s just something about Delta country that’s absolutely miserable.
A friend from Phoenix came to visit in July while I was there and his first comment was “How in the fuck do you breathe?”
I like Alabama a whole lotta betta.
BTW, Memphis sucks in the winter too.
St. Louis and on south – like Memphis – it’s hot still humid…like walking around in a really bad smelly sauna. Dreadful. Especially if you don’t have a/c. No a/c in school when I was a kid. Put 30 kids in a hot room with 2 big fans… gak!
South Carolina all summer long. Absolutely disgusting swamp weather.
Today in Jersey, it hit 95 degrees with 90+ percent humidity. Farookin’ BRUTAL.
Quang Tri while it was still on the map, right before and after the worst of the monsoons. In 1971 the sun broke through for a total of 4 hours in December. After the monsoons it would turn dry…..dry there being 90 instead of 99% humidity. The good ol’ days, when women were still women and men liked them bra-less.
The PI during monsoon season. At least I was on liberty the whole time, three weeks, but I was praying to go back to sea at the end of those three weeks, and not just because of the humidity.
I’ve seen D.C. so humid that you couldn’t see the Washington Monument from the Potomac River. And a particularly humid day watching the Brickyard 400 in Indy at 100+ degrees. But it doesn’t last too long.
I just got back from Houston. The rain doesn’t even cut the humidity and it feels like a sauna. Any place can be hot and humid. It’s the long consistant stretch of it that you get in the south that’s brutal.
Persian Gulf. 3 digit temps, as close to 3 digit humidity as you can get. All before noon. Thank goodness for cut-off dungaree Uniform-of-the-Day. Don’t know how the ground troops do it over there.