Yesterday, it was 94 with 91% humidity and a dewpoint of 76, and a light breeze of 5 mph. Overnight, it fell to 80. Last week, I came out of a restaurant at 9:30p and the temperature was 88 with a feels like of 99.
The real killer about Florida and other places like it is not that it is hot during the day – though it is, really hot – it’s that it doesn’t cool off overnight. And the humidity is relentless. It’s often so humid that we have lovely mornings of fog in August.
I am not a fan.
All you heat haters can envy me - Calgary has little humidity and it cools off almost every night (we get a couple of warm nights in summer, but not often). When the sun goes down (at 10:30 or so), the temperature drops, too. 
Hot weather is miserable.
It was 98F here yesterday, and I was out in it all day. We’ve declared our gaming season over until at least September, because it’s just too bloody hot to engage in sword fights outdoors. We had a couple of ice chests full of cold drinks, and encouraged people to dunk towels in the meltwater to put on their necks, and it we still had a couple of cases of borderline heat exhaustion. I’m still trying to get rehydrated myself, and I haven’t even unloaded and stowed our gear yet. I think I’ll wait until the sun goes down, at least.
Like picunurse intimated, you heathaters should move up here to the Pacific Northwet. It’s right now, at noon on the 20th of June, 52°F out on the patio, and naturally it’s drizzling. 75°? I don’t think we’ve hit 65 more than two or three times this year.
Up here trying to find directions by looking on which side of the tree moss is growing on is useless. It grows on the N, S, E, & W sides equally well.
But we know that around the last week in August it will suddenly hit 98°F, and everyone here will wilt.
BTW, I see that Northwest was mispelled. Not going to change it, though. The mispelled version is a lot more accurate.
Howdy, neighbor! We’re just outside of Jackson, and Intellicast says it’s 96 with a heat index of 105. The one thing I hate is having to go to the gym to walk. I love being outdoors: just not in this. At the gym, I feel like a hamster on a wheel if I’m on the treadmill, and the scenery on the track is just BORING.
I like up to about 24C, tops.
I hate summer. Hate it. Am planning on wearing ice blocks on my feet if I am cruelly forced outside today.
Toronto, ON.
The radio news station in the DC area (WTOP) is like that. They whine and moan when it gets below 40 for one day in the winter, but they LOVE, absolutely love it when it gets above 90 with high humidity. They go on and on about how great it is. Makes me sick.
I also abominate heat. It has gotten worse as I get older. I was born in Florida and was very glad when we moved north when I was 4. I still hate Illinois summers, though. I was just out planting ONE plant (less than 20 minutes) and I was soaked head to foot in sweat.
I am now showered and not leaving the AC for the rest of the day. I hate summer because I cannot enjoy being outside; I cannot garden or exercise etc. Between my vitiligo and my heat intolerance, summer sucks.
I do dress appropriately for the weather and I don’t appreciate people telling me that I need to change either my habits or my POV re weather. You won’t hear me whine about it being cold outside–I love winter, even blizzards and below zero.
You all who enjoy the heat, go out there and get chewed alive by mosquitos, suffer heat exhaustion (I’ve had that–no fun. I’ll never go to another Air and Water Show in my life because of the heat exhaustion I had at one in my 20s); sweat through 3 changes of underwear a day etc. Have at it. I’m not interested…
“Man is a tropical animal, and he needs a tropical environment.”
Maybe true, bt I prefer to supply my own, and sweaters complement me.
Another hot weather hater here. I live in Evansville IN, very southern Indiana, and we are known for high humidity- we call it the air you can wear.
Yesterday was 96 degrees F with a heat index of 112. Right now it is 94 at 4:30 PM. On the radio yesterday they said the heat index was going to hover around 100 overnight. I have never heard of that. It is miserable. I can’t spend time outside, I can’t let my dogs outside for long.
C’mon autumn… you can’t get here soon enough.
Nowadays air conditioning is nigh ubiquitous (although I don’t have it at home), but I remember my mother saying how hot weather was worse than cold. She might have had a different reaction if we didn’t have central heating, though. Hot weather can kill a few people; cold weather can kill everybody. I know all about Eskimos in igloos, bundled up tight, but no one ever said they enjoyed it. Cold is worse than heat.
Where do you think little Eskimos come from?
I swear I have reverse SAD. I love winter. I get totally stoked on dreary, rainy days in the spring and fall.
Summer comes and I feel like I’m being assaulted. I hate bright, relentless sun. Day after day after day. As the days wear on I get sadder and sadder and sadder…
I hate the humidity. I don’t even like that there’s daylight until 9:00. Yuck.
What’s worse is that I spent from 1987 - 1999 in the South, mostly in Texas. How did I survive it? My last year in Austin, there were forest fires in Mexico raging out of control. The thick black smoke traveled up into Central Texas that year. In August, IIRC. It’s a million degrees with a million +1 humidity, and the city is blanketed by heavy smoke… It was hell.
I love winter. Winter any day.
I hate the heat too. Perfect temperature for me is about 55. I feel physically miserable and ill when it’s over 75. I actually enjoy feeling cold.
Although I dislike both extremes of weather, I can get warm in the winter. It is far more difficult to get cool in the summer.
Hot weather sucks.
Three years ago, I finally escaped heat and humidity. Granted it was a long move but I am in a mountain town in Idaho and it’s considered hot here at about 80F. Bwahahahahaha!!! And what, exactly, is humidity? Oh, yeah, that thing that slapped me in the face last August when I visited family in Maryland – midnight at BWI, it’s 75F and the humidity was at approximately 1000%, I nearly walked straight back into the airport yelling, “Take me home!!!” Gaaaah! I need a shower just thinking about it.
The only catch – and it’s not actually a catch for me – is that we have winter. Quite a bit of it. But I love the changes in seasons. And winter can be tons of fun.
Gestalt, I lived in Augusta for a few years – plus other hot and humid places, never again! I feel your pain. Except that my house is wide open, there’s a lovely cool breeze coming in right now (a bit on the oddly cool side, it’s 59F at the moment), and I neither have nor need AC because my cabin stays cool pretty much no matter what.
I grew up in Las Vegas and I absolutely hate the heat!!! I was so sick of hearing “but it’s a dry heat!!” Yeah, so is the oven, but I would not like to stick my head in it…
I moved to the Northwest (between Seattle and Canada) back in 1985 and never looked back!!!
Here in southern Illinois, the humidity is what kills my least desire to go outside. After the chemo screwed up my lungs, it feels like trying to suck cotton balls into my lungs to breathe in this stupid humidity. My daughter and I both also tend to get nauseous when we get overheated, so we’re not the ones to take walking around the county fair in the late afternoon.
On the otherhand, I love cold weather. That crispness cleans out your body, and you can always layer on more clothes.
I am exactly like you guys - though I am doing the hot flash thing right now thanks to a hysterectomy so it has been annoying. My poor husband’s thyroid is tits up, so he has the freezing all the time issue, then a hot flash hits and the air conditioner turns the bedroom into a walk in freezer. I swear you could hang meat in here right now. Poor guy just piles on the winter comforter and sleeps in sweats.
I live in So Cal and my family doesn’t like the AC. It can be 90 degrees at night, and we can’t turn on the AC because, “they’ll get sick.”