# Why are places by the Persian Gulf so muggy?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 7, 2017, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-places-by-the-persian-gulf-so-muggy/790702 "2017-07-07T16:10:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2017, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-places-by-the-persian-gulf-so-muggy/790702/21 "2017-07-09T22:55:20Z")

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> [@Johanna](#):
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> For that matter, what about the Gulf of California? Long and narrow, flanked all over by hot desert mountains. I don’t know because I’ve never been there. But if my hypothesis held, it would need to hold for places like Baja California & Sonora.

Today’s temps/humidity, from north to south:

San Felipe - 93F/60%  
Guaymas - 88/62  
Los Mochis - 90/49  
La Paz - 96/29

So basically the further into the gulf you go, the more humid it is.

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**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2017, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-places-by-the-persian-gulf-so-muggy/790702/22 "2017-07-10T02:16:56Z")

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> [@silenus](#):
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> Today’s temps/humidity, from north to south:
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> San Felipe - 93F/60%  
> Guaymas - 88/62  
> Los Mochis - 90/49  
> La Paz - 96/29
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> So basically the further into the gulf you go, the more humid it is.

ah-HAH!

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**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2017, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-places-by-the-persian-gulf-so-muggy/790702/23 "2017-07-10T02:24:32Z")

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Just by the way, the whole region smelled like a sweatsock yesterday and my shipping container of an apartment is leaking condensation over everything. They are calling for 118 degrees F tomorrow, but then you have to ad in the humidity.

Not for the weak.

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**Post date:** [July 10, 2017, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-places-by-the-persian-gulf-so-muggy/790702/24 "2017-07-10T02:59:48Z")

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Accuweather says it’s currently (2250 local) 68F/78% here in southeastern CT. [Weather.com](http://Weather.com) says it’s 93F/65% in Bahrain (0650 there), 96F/40% in Dubai.

Most of my visits to the Gulf were in July/August. I wasn’t checking the weather every day, but I know that walking around town in Bahrain was much more comfortable than walking around here in the summer.

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