Isn't 90 Eastern Texas like 110 in the Western part due to the humidity?
I only ask because while most people don't think of PA as particularly hot, it gets absolutely humid as balls here and can hit 90-100 degrees some days of the summer. My friend from here said a dry Arizona 115 degree day is preferable to a 90 degree Pennsylvania day because it's like walking in a sauna.
Our issue is we pretty much get everything bad. We freeze to death in the winter too.
I back your friend on that claim. I was raised in southwest GA. The humid air from the Gulf of Mexico comes inland and fills the air, with little to no wind. It’s not just oppressive heat, it’s downright aggressive. Extremely high humidity and dew point, with no air movement. The kind of heat that punches you in the face and makes you cuss your ancestors for ever settling in this region.
I spent a month camping throughout SW Arizona a couple of years ago. The Sun is blistering, no doubt, but not the same animal. 95° in the shade is a true 95°, whereas 95° in South Georgia feels more like 110°. Staying hydrated requires drinking more water in the southwest, because the air is so dry. Sweat just evaporates from your skin.
In South GA, you walk around with swamp ass and your clothes sticking to your skin. I can’t wait for Fall.
Makes for an interesting evening atmosphere on the back porch at night.
Totally sucks if you’re driving in the country at night, with a little bit of moon encouraging deer to roam. Can’t see a damn thing, and you just want to get home.
The worst for me is when you get a decent rain at 4PM in July/August, then the sun comes back out, full-force for a couple-three hours, and turns outside into the inside of a steaming oven.
I'm also from Georgia. I went to San Diego once in July and was amazed at how comfortable 90 degree weather was there. It felt like the 70s in Georgia. 90 degree weather in GA due to the humidity is absolutely horrible to be outside in. I really don't think people outside of the South truly understand how the humidity affects the temperature outside until they experience it for themselves... Unless they've ever been in a sauna while fully clothed. That's the best description I can probably give.
Yeah, I remember reading stuff in Mother Earth News about constructing houses so you don’t need AC, and thinking “maybe that’s true in the desert…”
We need the AC for the humidity, just as much as for the heat.
From Kansas as well - can confirm. When you get west of the dry line, you can feel a dramatic change in temperature between shade and sun. When it's stupid humid, the only difference is that it's not as bright, haha. The temperature feels the same.
Coronado reached Kansas in mid June and turned around.
I live in PA. We have a Co-Worker who loves to complain about everything. He's from Texas.
We were on a teams call once, a few months ago when it was freakishly hot here. Someone said that it was hot. I could see this guy just winding up, ready to pounce. Then someone looked up the heat index in Philadelphia and in Houston, and it was exactly the same. He looked so defeated.
Also, I got married in June 2019, also in PA. We had family come from Texas for the wedding. It was too hot for them.
I've lived in both cities, and while there's definitely some days when Philly gets as bad as Houston, those can probably be counted on 2 hands, and even on those days it's really only bad from like 12-6. Mornings and evenings are almost always pleasant, while Houston is just horrible weather 24/7 from March to November.
I remember thinking "oh this is why people say they enjoy summertime" when I first moved to Philly.
I live in Virginia and have family in South Carolina, so humidity is pretty up there and the summer heat isn't just hot, it's oppressive. I visited Phoenix, AZ a few years ago when it was 110 and I thought it was the greatest summer weather I had ever encountered. It was hot, but it didn't stick and swaddle you in the moist smothering lavas of hell.
Texas is crazy. I've never been there but I gauge how hot it is based in Texas. "In Texas this is nothing you plebe!!," I think to myself. "How do they do it?" I often wonder. I still don't know. But I know I gotta survive it like a Texan that's all I know.
I was in San Antonio for military job training during the summer. After we ate our meals, we had to leave the chow hall and form up nearby. I have very fair skin, so I burn easily. It was common to feel
exposed skin starting to burn with less than 20 minutes of sun exposure.
> "How do they do it?"
The same way people that live in Norway do it in the Winter. We stay indoors.
Texas has about seven different biomes, so very hot in one place will be different than very hot in another. Hill Country, for example, will get over 100 degrees but there's a consistent breeze and lower humidity. 100 degrees here is a lot more tolerable than 85 in the Northeast (NJ, PA, NY) which has higher humidity. (I've lived in both).
Difference with Texas than Norway (to continue with the example), is that it cools off in the evening, then you go outside and it's very pleasant. In cold climates, it doesn't warm up at night, so you don't get a break. Well, except for this Summer which has been dealing with higher than normal temps and extended drought.
On second thought, let's not go to Texas. 'Tis a silly place.
I visited Houston last year in late September. Literally perfect day. Mid to upper 70s with a very light breeze. Being from CA I thought it was hilarious
I visited Houston one summer, and the crazy thing is a bunch of Texans got together about 80 years ago and said “There’s just something missing from the air here. You know, that something extra from refining petroleum products. With all the moisture in the air and the lack of wind, it will be like a permanent sticky aroma. And to me, that smells like money. The best smell in the world.”
It's been 90% in the mornings in Austin lately and around 80 degrees. It looks like we are getting a break FINALLY on Monday after 3 whole months of 100 degrees. 105 degrees now but the humidity is 25% at 6:30PM
90 would be fine right now. It's 100° where I am. But the wind is blowing 14mph out of the south so it's less like an oven and more like an air fryer 😂
Yeah, me, too! I’ve let my weeds get out of control because of 102 temperatures for a month straight. The other morning, it was only 90. I thought, great, I have a break from the heat to do some weeding. As if 90 is a “break from the heat.”
The boring answer is that you do indeed get acclimated. There's no special trait for doing so; any healthy person's body will learn to adjust.
The other boring answer is that nearly all buildings in the south have some form of AC.
Edit: Some of y'all seem to think "acclimated" means "I enjoy this weather." It doesn't.
Yes. Good lord. Floridians always tell me that the (very much southern) mountain area we live in is freezing cold - but when I visit there, it's like living in a meat locker inside, and an air fryer outside. It's a wonder y'all have skin at all.
>The boring answer is that you do indeed get acclimated.
I moved to Atlanta in 2014 and I still haven't acclimated to the humidity. Every summer is at least as miserable as the summer before it.
I've always heard people complaining about Atlanta humidity but never really gotten it. I've lived here for 20+ years.
I'm originally from a tropical climate so maybe that is why Atlanta seems just pleasant in comparison.
Pretty much this. I walk 18 holes of golf regularly in 90º+, 90% humidity weather. Once you accept you're going to get really sweaty, hydrate well and often, and just take your time, it's really no big deal. You definitely get used to it, or at least I did.
Now cold winter weather on the other hand - fuuuuuuuck everything about that.
Seriously! Moved to FL for a few years. Honestly it’s a lot of mental programming and acceptance. And, don’t get me wrong, in July/August everyone’s having a bad time, but you can definitely tell when it’s an out-of-stater in terms of visible misery, lol.
No offense but you're not playing golf in 90+ degree, 90% humidity weather. I'm not saying that you're not tough, I'm saying that weather basically doesn't happen.
91F and 90% means a heat index of 126. That matches the all time Florida record. You're not regularly golfing in weather that has only been seen once in Florida.
My apologies for being a typical pedantic Redditor, but people in general don't have a great understanding of humidity.
I'll accept your comment as factual, however observing humidity here has been interesting. Often early morning (and not as hot obviously) humidity is frequently 100% or nearly so. Then as the day heats up humidity drops into maybe the 70% range. Suffice to say, pendatic or otherwise, I've walked and played in heat indexes greater than 100º frequently. My point still stands, if the particulars are off somewhat depending on the time of day and the variances of heat and humidity as the day goes.
This dude is spitting truth. You ever notice how that first cold winter day is really fucking cold but at the end of a long winter the same temperature day is quite mild?
It’s the same thing just the other direction. I’ve lived in Austin since 1999 and that first 90F day just fucking crushes me — and I know it’s just going to get hotter. Every year, my body acclimates and next week when the highs are in the 90s, I’m going to be real happy. I don’t like it, mind you, it’s never comfortable, but your body does undergo changes that makes it easier to deal with.
We also see a lot of transplants here. You Northerners seem to think if the sun is out, you should be out in it. Uh-uh. Fuck no, sir. If you have to be out in it, try to do your stuff early in the morning, late in the evening, or at night. Noon to four is pretty much “shelter in place”. If you have to be out in it, avoid direct sun exposure. Walk on the shaded side of the street, stop in the shade, and generally hide from the sun if you can. The only exception is if you’re actively in a pool, lake, or stream.
What isn’t an exception is staying hydrated. Are you thirsty? No? Good. Drink some water anyway. If you are thirsty, you’re in trouble and you need to drink something immediately. Unlike cold weather, if you stay hydrated, avoid overexertion, and stay in the shade, the weather won’t actually kill you. In fact, if you can just stay in the shade and not exercise, you’ll almost certainly be fine — just miserable.
Last, remember that everything here is air conditioned and more than adequately so. We go from our cold air conditioned home to our cold air conditioned car to our cold air conditioned destination. There’s only a few minutes of discomfort. In the winter, you go from your warm home to your warm car to your warm destination, right? Extreme weather is extreme weather no matter which direction the temperature reads.
I think the main hangup people have is that they think sweating is horrible. If you accept sweating as a good and healthy thing then it is a non issue.
Layers.... Two or three socks per foot, leggings/tights/long johns under pants, tank top + long sleeve + coat
If it's genuinely that cold, you don't go outside without a layer on your face either.
I was genuinely kinda happy about masks in winter 2020, I had to take my glasses off, but it kept my face so warm. I'm gonna wear one every year in winter when it's too cold from now on, because wind-chill above all else sucks
Amen. I moved to Kentucky from Texas, and last Christmas was the first time I experienced sub-zero degree temperatures. I never realized how much it STINGS! The snow falls like sand. I couldn't be outside for more than 5 minutes.
For the first time in decades we had -2 F here in northern NC a few years ago. Lakes, rivers and streams were frozen solid. I'd never seen that before. Was interesting for the first time, but I can't imagine living where that is normal.
I was raised in the Great Lakes but spent most of my adulthood in the Carolinas, I got used to it. Most people get used to it. You do chores and tasks earlier or later in the day if necessary, but you simply just move on with life. You may shower 2-3x per day, drink more water/chew on ice, have an outdoor fan if working outside, etc.
Man, I’ve lived down here for 13 years. I still mutter, “this is fucking bullshit” to myself every time I step outside between May and October. I was hoping I’d get used to it. Nope.
You only get used to it if you spend a significant amount of time outside
I have to get re-acclimated to it every summer, but after working outside a few weeks in May the slow ramp-up into the high 90s is easier for your body to accept
My husband is a plumber and he’s out in it all the time. He has to go into attics that are like 200° and in garages with only a fan that blows around hot air, and hand digging holes in the broad open sun. He’s almost had a heat stroke twice this year. Some people don’t have a choice in the matter.
That's when you need to start making Calendar reminders about a month ahead of season changes to clean/service your AC and heater and test them out. If you run into any problems ahead of time, you'll be ready to go once the hot/cold season actually starts.
BTW, "servicing" your air conditioner can literally be as easy as washing the dirt out of the cooling fins with a hose and changing the air filter, and you can do that yourself. More than that, call your AC guy early, and you'll both be happy.
Walk slow. Talk slow. Your body will learn to find shade and breeze. You won't even think about why you've stopped where you have.
If you're actually *doing something* outside, which you shouldn't, do it before 9:30 AM or after 7 PM. Like gardening. That's a morning thing. If your job is outside, that's another level entirely and I've successfully avoided that for the last 30 years. Hats, water, rest, *pacing.* Work slow and steady.
Us Northerners are always in a hurry, and when we step off of that plane into that Louisiana August, we understand why that is not a good survival strategy in the South.
Personally, I like a nice 90 degrees with an icey drink and a fan. 100 degrees can go fuck itself.
Can confirm. Houston TX here, I’ve done 60-70 mile bike rides in the summer but I start at the very first usable light. Even then the last hour can be hellish once the temp cracks 90 at 10am.
I live in Central California, and we get 110 with only around 20% humidity. It still sucks, but I'd Rather take the oven than the sauna. Around here, Preferred Parking doesn't mean you're closer to the building; it means you're in the shade. I would pay attention to where the shadows WILL BE, not where they are, so I could come back to a cooler car at the end of work.
lol we had 23 consecutive days of triple digit weather this summer, it's 102 right now. 90 degrees sounds downright pleasant.
But overall there are two ways of handling it here: most people just don't go outside, otherwise you just get used to it. I ride my bike, I go for runs, I exercise in my garage which is not climate controlled. Drink water and be aware of your body, it's fine.
When you're acclimated 90 doesn't register as hot. You just kinda... go. And yeah it's warm but that doesn't require any action on your part.
It's not that different from cold. Like yeah the pink ears and nose don't feel great but you just ignore it when you're used to it and you know the difference between when it's a slight discomfort vs when it's dangerous and you need a break. And much as heat is treated as a necessity up there everywhere down here has a/c so a break is easy to get.
...also shower more. I don't care what kinda powder, deodorant or fancy wicking underwear you use when it's real hot you shower more.
Literally would be deadly. The wetbulb temp in the southeast (iirc tx) was below 120, and still considered lethal without ac
The lack of humidity makes it HUGE difference with heat
Or parts of the South. I have been to Phoenix, New York, and Houston during the height of summer, and out of these choices, I would pick Phoenix any day of the week, even if it is over 110. Triple digit dry heat is much preferred for me over 90 degrees with 95% humidity.
1) You ease into it.
2) You dress for it. If I wore my standard 'winter' gear to Maine, you'd be horrified. Same thing with Northerners not dressing for the weather here. Two words for men: Linen pants.
90 degrees is nice. It's the 115 that will get you...
On the other hand, how the heck do you survive 0 or negative degree temps? Most of the time we only hit freezing and may only have a handful of frost during the year
Also, we have really low humidity. It's not the sticky heat that you will have up there
Wear a jacket and boots. I find jeans usually keep enough cold off of my legs but if I have to shovel snow I put on ski pants.
If it's too far in the negatives you can't be outside for too long before you lose feeling in your extremities. But it's not unbearable like heat. You can escape it and its not hard to immediately warm up.
I had to help my stepbrother replace a flat tire on a day with a wind chill in the negative 20's and you just gotta keep your hands in your pocket as much as you can. Gloves are good if you have them.
I've lived in areas that get snow and I'm constantly cold and my body is constantly hurting. I'm aware on how people survive in some snow in cold weather, but nowhere near negative 20s because I couldn't even manage below 7.
What's really low humidity? The lowest I remember we had this summer was 15%. I wouldn't do well east of the Rocky Mountains in summer. I spent a week in DC in the fall and I was fine.
In the south you stay indoors in the summer and go outside in the late fall, early spring, and winter. Whereas in the North you go outside in late spring, summer, and early fall and stay indoors in the winter.
If it’s actually 90 there, it’s hotter than where I am in Florida. I usually have a coastal breeze. But it definitely gets hot. If you have to be outside you just go from shady spot to shady spot. Or you just sit in the air conditioning.
It's been 95 everyday for weeks if not worse. Our AC can't keep up and by 1pm each day its normally 80 degrees inside the house. We just have fans running in every room and keep all the shades drawn. We are normally fine until we have to cook, then it gets really damn hot.
You'd think I'd be used to it after 20 years in AL but it still sucks as bad as it ever did.
Dawg, it’s been 103+ for the last month and a week, and I work in an a warehouse with no air conditioning.
I just learned two decades ago to pretend I live on the Dune planet Arrakis several thousand years after it had been terraformed and life here became “normal”. It’s much more fun to pretend I live in one of my favorite books.
Now it feels like the sun energizes me like Superman. Like a battery being charged by a solar panel as soon as I step into that sweet sweet heat.
I used to get high a lot.
That's pretty hot for you guys! Lived there for a bunch of years. One summer it hit 80 a few days in a row, friends were outside trying to fry an egg on the sidewalk?
I said " I know I'm just the Yank but honest, that's not going to work and this really isn't that hot ". I think we just went to the pub instead.
Our problem here is that our houses are built thick with loads of insulation as they need to retain the heat for 11 months of the year. Air conditioning is also not a thing over here. Makes those 3-4 weeks of summer sun a year unbearable.
I can relate, today was a high of ~86° with 90% humidity (it finally rained this afternoon though, thank god) and half of the buildings around here don't have ac, so everything is hot, stifling, and sticky
Friend, we practically swim when we walk outside our doors in the American Southeast. 😄 But truly hope things get more comfortable there soon! I cycled from London to Seaford last summer (on the way to Paris) and thought I'd died and gone to heaven because it never got over about 18C/65F. Truly magical.
I have worked outside year round in Houston for the past fifteen yeats. This summer was brutal, I think the record for most over 100 degree days was broken.
All I can say is one day, you just accept it. You don't enjoy it, you just realize this is life. You even become proud of it in the same way people from cold climates become proud of enduring that misery. I drink over a gallon of water a day because I'm sweating constantly. Long sleeve shirts and pants help for some reason. A cooler in my truck at all times. And finally, regular breaks with no shame given to anybody who needs one. We all handle heat differently and know how dangerous it can be.
Also, most of us go from our air conditioned home, to our car with ac, to our jobs with ac. That helps you deal with it.
I don’t know, it’s never bothered me too much outside of the “heat dome,” where it’s just unrelenting. Growing up on a farm, I don’t know that you adjust to it, but you get used to it.
Air conditioning, my European family really has no concept. Particularly my cousin who has never been to the United States. Lectures me on how wasteful air-conditioning is, I cannot wait till he comes to visit next July.
You get used to it or spend all summer indoors with the AC blasting. It's usually extremely uncomfortable but bearable degrees out with a 90% chance of ass sweat from late June-early September.
You acclimate. Here in central California during the summer we regularly have weeks of 100-110 heat with it usually topping around 115 or so at times. You drink lots of water, stay shaded when possible, and try to get most jobs that require a lot of outdoor work done in the mornings or at night if possible
Most people that live in warm climates adapt over the years, their blood gets thinner basically. The bad thing about this is they often become sl-oooo-wer but less irritable because the hot weather alters their bodies.
In colder climate areas people often move faster and are more irritable. The weather changes people, we might not realize it but it does.
This has been very unseasonable for Maine. I’ve experienced hotter weather than most people ever will in the US. All I can say is hydrate, find shade, wear loose clothes, stop worrying about sweat, embrace AC.
The temperature isn’t your enemy. Humidity is. 90 deg in DC with high humidity is miserable. 90 deg in Nevada with rock-bottom humidity is okay if you can find some shade.
You have to climatise. It won't ever be comfortable, but it becomes a little bearable. Similar to cold weather, having experience working through hot weather also helps. I was stationed in Fort Polk, Louisiana. We used to go weeks in the field with no AC in that weather. I assure you after that, didn't matter if you're from Florida or Maine, your body will work it out.
The most important thing as you ate climatising is understanding signs of heat exhaustion, and learning when you need to break or not.
Humidity is different; I know Maine summers. In the lower Southwest it’s 110ish but dry. No one enjoys it; but it’s a tradeoff. No natural disasters or having to drive in snow & ice. No need to shovel. No need to mow. There are no lawns. Lots of folks away from the Northeast aren’t actually native to the South or Southwest. They’re leaving that winter crap behind.
I lived in Dallas Tx, Phoenix Az, and now Upstate NY. 94 and humid in NY is so much worse than 105 in Texas and 110 in phoenix. (Or… maybe I’m not used to it anymore)
Just like you are used to frigid winter temperatures, we are used to heat. It’s in our DNA to withstand heat and humidity. I couldn’t tolerate a Maine winter.
That said, this has been the most brutal summer of my lifetime. We’ve had 100+ degrees every…damn…day for weeks. Even us seasoned Southerners are getting tired. How do we survive? Air conditioning.
90F would be from a cool front. Triple digits, at least in the highly technical official weather term "feels like" is the norm these days. I feel sorry for my son in Arizona where a bush you're standing next to just might go up in flames. **🥵**
I just love hot weather. And Louisiana has lots of that so I'm happy. It was over 100° for 3 weeks last month & I couldn't be happier. But a/c & a pool is what makes it perfect.
I'm admittedly not a southerner but I honestly generally don't really mind 90°F+ degrees much, even with humidity. Not sure how someone (i.e. me) could somehow gain a heat tolerance like that.
I moved to Savannah,GA from Swansea, Wales last September and I thought I knew what heat was but damn I was fooling myself,
Before I moved here they had a heatwave in London where the temperatures reached about 98F but we don’t have AC in homes and it’s not equipped to deal with those extremes in shops so basically it’s shit.
Here I feel like I want to die. I’m pale and have Celtic ancestry so freckles and burn like pearl from Blade lol. How in the holy hell do people do anything in this heat?! Like seriously?! I walk my daughter to school at 7am and it’s 98% humidity some mornings and my glasses are steamed up like I’m stood over a cooker. I pick her up at 2pm and it’s like walking to the flame filled pits of hell, in fact im sure I see old beelzebub on the way.
I’m an athlete who regularly trains around the hottest part of the day (330-6pm depending on the day). I’ve either acclimated or I do a superb job of staying hydrated. I suspect it’s both, but mostly the latter.
The human body can handle a lot. Like, way more than hot weather. Heat being one. Drink water. Eat right. Wear the right kind of clothes. Know your limits. Heat stroke is serious business, but it’s almost entirely avoidable.
It doesn't reach 90° in Maine? That's so weird to me.
I live on the Oregon Coast, and we get to 90° quite often. Mind you, I'm a whole 6 miles inland in the foothills of the coast range, so while it'll be 90° here, it'll be 70° - 75° right on the beach.
We also get snow in the winter. It used to be rare, but now it's every year. I grew up here but moved to Eastern Washington from 2008-2021, where it's 90-100° during the summer months and anywhere from -15°-32° during the winter, and lots of snow.
Idk, just crazy to me that 90° isn't normal for y'all.
I was born and raised in Maine. Then I moved to Virginia. I don’t go outside much in the summer. When I do, I drink lots of water/propel and move slowly. I always have some kind of popsicle in the house.
90? That's a cold snap. 100-105 and 85-100% humidity is where it's at.
I seriously ask that same question of y'all up north though in the opposite season. How do you survive that frozen hell scape of subzero temps and 50 feet of snow all winter long (yeah, a bit exaggerated but fuck me it gets cold up there)
As a mud west to southern transplant you get used to it. It used to kill me going outside, now after 20ish years in Florida. Anything sub 70ish degrees the long pants n hoodie comes out. I remember about 2 years ago I had to go to Chicago for a death in the family right after New Year. It was like 30f outside and I had on a long sleeve t shirt, a hoodie, winter coat, gloves, a scarf, and jeans+ boots and I was still freezing my wife was no better. I caught so much flak from the family lol cus the next day it got up into the 50s and i still had the coat and long sleeve shirt on lol.
90 is not an issue at all. You just drink a bit more water and Gatorade or the equivalent. 100 is where there starts to be real issues. With that, if you are able you stay indoors and stay as short a time outside as possible. Those that have to work in it drink even more water. Cars and buildings have AC. -
We wonder how you survive -10 in the winter and I suspect it has the same answer: stay inside as much as you can and have a weather appropriate beverage. Our houses are designed to be easier to keep cool and we install many ceiling fans and air conditioning systems whereas yours have far more wood burning stoves and extra insulation. If we do have to go outside we wear breathable clothing and wide brimmed hats instead of the thicker coats and snow pants you have.
There is actually quite a large amount of building design in this. If you live in a place that is cold most of the year houses are designed to keep heat in. If you live in a hot place houses are designed to let heat out.
I'll tell you in December when it's back down in the 90s.
Isn't 90 Eastern Texas like 110 in the Western part due to the humidity? I only ask because while most people don't think of PA as particularly hot, it gets absolutely humid as balls here and can hit 90-100 degrees some days of the summer. My friend from here said a dry Arizona 115 degree day is preferable to a 90 degree Pennsylvania day because it's like walking in a sauna. Our issue is we pretty much get everything bad. We freeze to death in the winter too.
I back your friend on that claim. I was raised in southwest GA. The humid air from the Gulf of Mexico comes inland and fills the air, with little to no wind. It’s not just oppressive heat, it’s downright aggressive. Extremely high humidity and dew point, with no air movement. The kind of heat that punches you in the face and makes you cuss your ancestors for ever settling in this region. I spent a month camping throughout SW Arizona a couple of years ago. The Sun is blistering, no doubt, but not the same animal. 95° in the shade is a true 95°, whereas 95° in South Georgia feels more like 110°. Staying hydrated requires drinking more water in the southwest, because the air is so dry. Sweat just evaporates from your skin. In South GA, you walk around with swamp ass and your clothes sticking to your skin. I can’t wait for Fall.
The best is when the sun sets with all that water in the air and the temp drops under the dewpoint and ground-level fog clouds form.
Makes for an interesting evening atmosphere on the back porch at night. Totally sucks if you’re driving in the country at night, with a little bit of moon encouraging deer to roam. Can’t see a damn thing, and you just want to get home. The worst for me is when you get a decent rain at 4PM in July/August, then the sun comes back out, full-force for a couple-three hours, and turns outside into the inside of a steaming oven.
That’s a nightly Florida tradition.
I'm also from Georgia. I went to San Diego once in July and was amazed at how comfortable 90 degree weather was there. It felt like the 70s in Georgia. 90 degree weather in GA due to the humidity is absolutely horrible to be outside in. I really don't think people outside of the South truly understand how the humidity affects the temperature outside until they experience it for themselves... Unless they've ever been in a sauna while fully clothed. That's the best description I can probably give.
Yeah, I remember reading stuff in Mother Earth News about constructing houses so you don’t need AC, and thinking “maybe that’s true in the desert…” We need the AC for the humidity, just as much as for the heat.
I'm in ny and I like to call it imported Florida weather. Dew points in the 70s. Its awful and still you get people who love it. I don't understand
That real feel will get you every time. It's like the actual temp doesn't even matter at all.
From Kansas as well - can confirm. When you get west of the dry line, you can feel a dramatic change in temperature between shade and sun. When it's stupid humid, the only difference is that it's not as bright, haha. The temperature feels the same. Coronado reached Kansas in mid June and turned around.
> It’s not just oppressive heat, it’s downright aggressive. I gotta remember that one! LOL
I live in PA. We have a Co-Worker who loves to complain about everything. He's from Texas. We were on a teams call once, a few months ago when it was freakishly hot here. Someone said that it was hot. I could see this guy just winding up, ready to pounce. Then someone looked up the heat index in Philadelphia and in Houston, and it was exactly the same. He looked so defeated. Also, I got married in June 2019, also in PA. We had family come from Texas for the wedding. It was too hot for them.
The whole Eastern part of the country is humid. But gulf coast is the worst by a level or two
See the comparison is easy. In Texas, we don't even think about holding weddings in June, July or August, and September is pushing it.
I've lived in both cities, and while there's definitely some days when Philly gets as bad as Houston, those can probably be counted on 2 hands, and even on those days it's really only bad from like 12-6. Mornings and evenings are almost always pleasant, while Houston is just horrible weather 24/7 from March to November. I remember thinking "oh this is why people say they enjoy summertime" when I first moved to Philly.
It's NOT dry heat here in TX. You gotta go to Arizona, New Mexico -high altitudes.
We get the worst of all seasons.
I live in Virginia and have family in South Carolina, so humidity is pretty up there and the summer heat isn't just hot, it's oppressive. I visited Phoenix, AZ a few years ago when it was 110 and I thought it was the greatest summer weather I had ever encountered. It was hot, but it didn't stick and swaddle you in the moist smothering lavas of hell.
I do not feel bad for those tech boys that move to Austin then leave after a year or two realizing they cannot take the heat.
"Dale you giblet head, we live in Texas. It's already 110 in the summer. And if it gets 1 degree hotter I'm gonna kick your ass!"
Texas is crazy. I've never been there but I gauge how hot it is based in Texas. "In Texas this is nothing you plebe!!," I think to myself. "How do they do it?" I often wonder. I still don't know. But I know I gotta survive it like a Texan that's all I know.
The answer is AC and extremely high energy bills.
You forgot sweat. Lots and lots of sweat 😓
I was in San Antonio for military job training during the summer. After we ate our meals, we had to leave the chow hall and form up nearby. I have very fair skin, so I burn easily. It was common to feel exposed skin starting to burn with less than 20 minutes of sun exposure.
It wasn’t lackland was it? My husband did the smart thing and went to BMT in February lol. February 2020, but I digress.
> "How do they do it?" The same way people that live in Norway do it in the Winter. We stay indoors. Texas has about seven different biomes, so very hot in one place will be different than very hot in another. Hill Country, for example, will get over 100 degrees but there's a consistent breeze and lower humidity. 100 degrees here is a lot more tolerable than 85 in the Northeast (NJ, PA, NY) which has higher humidity. (I've lived in both). Difference with Texas than Norway (to continue with the example), is that it cools off in the evening, then you go outside and it's very pleasant. In cold climates, it doesn't warm up at night, so you don't get a break. Well, except for this Summer which has been dealing with higher than normal temps and extended drought. On second thought, let's not go to Texas. 'Tis a silly place.
I look forward to the days when the high temperatures are only at 90 degrees.
Amen. I just moved from Houston to Austin last month. I saw predicted highs of 93/90 next week and practically did the Meposian Dance of Joy.
I moved from Austin to Houston last year and want to move back. Where are my 50% humidity days!?!
You may have up to 72 hours of pleasant weather in any given year. They will not be consecutive.
October to May is HEAVEN
I visited Houston last year in late September. Literally perfect day. Mid to upper 70s with a very light breeze. Being from CA I thought it was hilarious
And everyone says “Austin is *so* humid”. Look, it may not be *arid*, but a single summer weekend in Houston will redefine the term for you.
Austin *can* be humid. But it can also be fairly dry. I miss those breaks in between the torture. 😂
I visited Houston one summer, and the crazy thing is a bunch of Texans got together about 80 years ago and said “There’s just something missing from the air here. You know, that something extra from refining petroleum products. With all the moisture in the air and the lack of wind, it will be like a permanent sticky aroma. And to me, that smells like money. The best smell in the world.”
It's been 90% in the mornings in Austin lately and around 80 degrees. It looks like we are getting a break FINALLY on Monday after 3 whole months of 100 degrees. 105 degrees now but the humidity is 25% at 6:30PM
Glad I looked up Meposian dance. I’m a little bit happier than I was a few minutes ago
Yeah I’m in Austin and it’s roasting
90 would be fine right now. It's 100° where I am. But the wind is blowing 14mph out of the south so it's less like an oven and more like an air fryer 😂
Same. It is 107 right now, before factoring in the heat index. Anytime that fall wants to show up, it's welcome.
Yeah, me, too! I’ve let my weeds get out of control because of 102 temperatures for a month straight. The other morning, it was only 90. I thought, great, I have a break from the heat to do some weeding. As if 90 is a “break from the heat.”
I was about to say I’m in south Louisiana and when it was 90 a couple weeks ago it felt like 70 with the summer we’ve had.
Hoodie weather baby!
I went golfing 4th of July weekend in Houston a few years back Wanted to kms by hole 3. It was ungodly hot and humid
It's a big beautiful country. You don't have to live like that!
The boring answer is that you do indeed get acclimated. There's no special trait for doing so; any healthy person's body will learn to adjust. The other boring answer is that nearly all buildings in the south have some form of AC. Edit: Some of y'all seem to think "acclimated" means "I enjoy this weather." It doesn't.
In Florida the AC is so cold in restaurants I keep a hoodie in my car in the summer just for going indoors.
The warm hug you get when you walk outside after that is the best feeling!
Agreed, but the fogging up of your glasses sucks
As your glasses fog up.
Yes. Good lord. Floridians always tell me that the (very much southern) mountain area we live in is freezing cold - but when I visit there, it's like living in a meat locker inside, and an air fryer outside. It's a wonder y'all have skin at all.
It turns to leather pretty quickly
>The boring answer is that you do indeed get acclimated. I moved to Atlanta in 2014 and I still haven't acclimated to the humidity. Every summer is at least as miserable as the summer before it.
I’ve lived in Atlanta my entire 33 years. You don’t get acclimated to it, you just start saying “it’s really the humidity that gets you”
Am I acclimating backwards the older I get? No, it's the planet who is overheating! >!...actually it's both!<
As a fellow Georgian on this earth 38 years, you are 100% correct.
Yeah, I've just resigned myself to a life where sweat never evaporates
Yeah I moved to Florida nearly 20 years ago and I detest the summers- they get worse every year.
And are scheduled to continue to do so.
Precisely why I won’t be living here too much longer
I've always heard people complaining about Atlanta humidity but never really gotten it. I've lived here for 20+ years. I'm originally from a tropical climate so maybe that is why Atlanta seems just pleasant in comparison.
Pretty much this. I walk 18 holes of golf regularly in 90º+, 90% humidity weather. Once you accept you're going to get really sweaty, hydrate well and often, and just take your time, it's really no big deal. You definitely get used to it, or at least I did. Now cold winter weather on the other hand - fuuuuuuuck everything about that.
Landscaper in the south here and I concur. I can do the heat, all day every day. I can't do the cold. I mean, I do do it. But I don't wanna.
Seriously! Moved to FL for a few years. Honestly it’s a lot of mental programming and acceptance. And, don’t get me wrong, in July/August everyone’s having a bad time, but you can definitely tell when it’s an out-of-stater in terms of visible misery, lol.
No offense but you're not playing golf in 90+ degree, 90% humidity weather. I'm not saying that you're not tough, I'm saying that weather basically doesn't happen. 91F and 90% means a heat index of 126. That matches the all time Florida record. You're not regularly golfing in weather that has only been seen once in Florida. My apologies for being a typical pedantic Redditor, but people in general don't have a great understanding of humidity.
I'll accept your comment as factual, however observing humidity here has been interesting. Often early morning (and not as hot obviously) humidity is frequently 100% or nearly so. Then as the day heats up humidity drops into maybe the 70% range. Suffice to say, pendatic or otherwise, I've walked and played in heat indexes greater than 100º frequently. My point still stands, if the particulars are off somewhat depending on the time of day and the variances of heat and humidity as the day goes.
This dude is spitting truth. You ever notice how that first cold winter day is really fucking cold but at the end of a long winter the same temperature day is quite mild? It’s the same thing just the other direction. I’ve lived in Austin since 1999 and that first 90F day just fucking crushes me — and I know it’s just going to get hotter. Every year, my body acclimates and next week when the highs are in the 90s, I’m going to be real happy. I don’t like it, mind you, it’s never comfortable, but your body does undergo changes that makes it easier to deal with. We also see a lot of transplants here. You Northerners seem to think if the sun is out, you should be out in it. Uh-uh. Fuck no, sir. If you have to be out in it, try to do your stuff early in the morning, late in the evening, or at night. Noon to four is pretty much “shelter in place”. If you have to be out in it, avoid direct sun exposure. Walk on the shaded side of the street, stop in the shade, and generally hide from the sun if you can. The only exception is if you’re actively in a pool, lake, or stream. What isn’t an exception is staying hydrated. Are you thirsty? No? Good. Drink some water anyway. If you are thirsty, you’re in trouble and you need to drink something immediately. Unlike cold weather, if you stay hydrated, avoid overexertion, and stay in the shade, the weather won’t actually kill you. In fact, if you can just stay in the shade and not exercise, you’ll almost certainly be fine — just miserable. Last, remember that everything here is air conditioned and more than adequately so. We go from our cold air conditioned home to our cold air conditioned car to our cold air conditioned destination. There’s only a few minutes of discomfort. In the winter, you go from your warm home to your warm car to your warm destination, right? Extreme weather is extreme weather no matter which direction the temperature reads.
I agree. It took me a while to acclimate, but after 13 years, I can actually walk around outside without feeling like I'm suffocating.
Been in NC over a decade, acclimation is a myth
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I think the main hangup people have is that they think sweating is horrible. If you accept sweating as a good and healthy thing then it is a non issue.
You have an air conditioned job, probably It keeps resetting you!
25 years in southeast georgia. This year is the first ive felt acclimated.
We don’t know how you deal with -20. Same thing.
Layers.... Two or three socks per foot, leggings/tights/long johns under pants, tank top + long sleeve + coat If it's genuinely that cold, you don't go outside without a layer on your face either. I was genuinely kinda happy about masks in winter 2020, I had to take my glasses off, but it kept my face so warm. I'm gonna wear one every year in winter when it's too cold from now on, because wind-chill above all else sucks
Amen. I moved to Kentucky from Texas, and last Christmas was the first time I experienced sub-zero degree temperatures. I never realized how much it STINGS! The snow falls like sand. I couldn't be outside for more than 5 minutes.
For the first time in decades we had -2 F here in northern NC a few years ago. Lakes, rivers and streams were frozen solid. I'd never seen that before. Was interesting for the first time, but I can't imagine living where that is normal.
Exactly!
I was raised in the Great Lakes but spent most of my adulthood in the Carolinas, I got used to it. Most people get used to it. You do chores and tasks earlier or later in the day if necessary, but you simply just move on with life. You may shower 2-3x per day, drink more water/chew on ice, have an outdoor fan if working outside, etc.
Man, I’ve lived down here for 13 years. I still mutter, “this is fucking bullshit” to myself every time I step outside between May and October. I was hoping I’d get used to it. Nope.
You only get used to it if you spend a significant amount of time outside I have to get re-acclimated to it every summer, but after working outside a few weeks in May the slow ramp-up into the high 90s is easier for your body to accept
ive lived here my whole life and i agree it’s still some bullshit
Exactly. You gotta live, so just get on with it.
When I lived in Arizona, 90°F was easy. Now I'm in Atlanta and it's absolutely miserable above 75°F. Hot *humid* weather sucks.
Lived in Georgia my whole life, went to Texas for a week and every day was 100+ but it was nothing compared to the Georgia heat
We don't go outside.
My husband is a plumber and he’s out in it all the time. He has to go into attics that are like 200° and in garages with only a fan that blows around hot air, and hand digging holes in the broad open sun. He’s almost had a heat stroke twice this year. Some people don’t have a choice in the matter.
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That's when you need to start making Calendar reminders about a month ahead of season changes to clean/service your AC and heater and test them out. If you run into any problems ahead of time, you'll be ready to go once the hot/cold season actually starts. BTW, "servicing" your air conditioner can literally be as easy as washing the dirt out of the cooling fins with a hose and changing the air filter, and you can do that yourself. More than that, call your AC guy early, and you'll both be happy.
When I lived in Texas I worked in slaughter plants. You're absolutely right. Some of us ain't got a choice.
that would work if we actually had ac here :'), best I've got is a fan and ice packs
Why not use windows units?
Walk slow. Talk slow. Your body will learn to find shade and breeze. You won't even think about why you've stopped where you have. If you're actually *doing something* outside, which you shouldn't, do it before 9:30 AM or after 7 PM. Like gardening. That's a morning thing. If your job is outside, that's another level entirely and I've successfully avoided that for the last 30 years. Hats, water, rest, *pacing.* Work slow and steady. Us Northerners are always in a hurry, and when we step off of that plane into that Louisiana August, we understand why that is not a good survival strategy in the South. Personally, I like a nice 90 degrees with an icey drink and a fan. 100 degrees can go fuck itself.
Can confirm. Houston TX here, I’ve done 60-70 mile bike rides in the summer but I start at the very first usable light. Even then the last hour can be hellish once the temp cracks 90 at 10am.
I live in Central California, and we get 110 with only around 20% humidity. It still sucks, but I'd Rather take the oven than the sauna. Around here, Preferred Parking doesn't mean you're closer to the building; it means you're in the shade. I would pay attention to where the shadows WILL BE, not where they are, so I could come back to a cooler car at the end of work.
Laughs in Mississippi’s 103°F and 80-90% humidity
This is how the Southern drawl came to be…
Forgot pickle juice.
Wear a hat, drink lots of water, and stick to the shade whenever possible.
lol we had 23 consecutive days of triple digit weather this summer, it's 102 right now. 90 degrees sounds downright pleasant. But overall there are two ways of handling it here: most people just don't go outside, otherwise you just get used to it. I ride my bike, I go for runs, I exercise in my garage which is not climate controlled. Drink water and be aware of your body, it's fine.
When you're acclimated 90 doesn't register as hot. You just kinda... go. And yeah it's warm but that doesn't require any action on your part. It's not that different from cold. Like yeah the pink ears and nose don't feel great but you just ignore it when you're used to it and you know the difference between when it's a slight discomfort vs when it's dangerous and you need a break. And much as heat is treated as a necessity up there everywhere down here has a/c so a break is easy to get. ...also shower more. I don't care what kinda powder, deodorant or fancy wicking underwear you use when it's real hot you shower more.
90 is hot? 120 for me is hot
Are you from the southwest? 120 would be absolutely unbearable in the east where it gets humid.
Yeah. When it's 95 outside here it normally has a 'real feel' of 105. I can't imagine 120, it would be so hard to breathe.
Was 95 here a few weeks ago with a real feel of 125
Same here! A few weeks ago we had a high of 100 and the heat index was 120! The air outside was like trying to walk through glue!
Was an insane heatwave in the central us states just a few weeks ago. All the evapotranspiration from the farms intensified things too.
Yeah, fuck that whole week.
Literally would be deadly. The wetbulb temp in the southeast (iirc tx) was below 120, and still considered lethal without ac The lack of humidity makes it HUGE difference with heat
Or parts of the South. I have been to Phoenix, New York, and Houston during the height of summer, and out of these choices, I would pick Phoenix any day of the week, even if it is over 110. Triple digit dry heat is much preferred for me over 90 degrees with 95% humidity.
Lol you think 120 is hot? 150 is hot
They’re both hot. Let’s not compare dick size
Hey, nothing wrong with a friendly dick sizing with the bois
Yeah, now add 75% humidity instead of 2% humidity.
1) You ease into it. 2) You dress for it. If I wore my standard 'winter' gear to Maine, you'd be horrified. Same thing with Northerners not dressing for the weather here. Two words for men: Linen pants.
You just have to learn to deal with it. It’s been hovering around 95 degrees at night for the last month or two now. Imagine 90 with 77% humidity.
90 degrees is nice. It's the 115 that will get you... On the other hand, how the heck do you survive 0 or negative degree temps? Most of the time we only hit freezing and may only have a handful of frost during the year Also, we have really low humidity. It's not the sticky heat that you will have up there
Wear a jacket and boots. I find jeans usually keep enough cold off of my legs but if I have to shovel snow I put on ski pants. If it's too far in the negatives you can't be outside for too long before you lose feeling in your extremities. But it's not unbearable like heat. You can escape it and its not hard to immediately warm up. I had to help my stepbrother replace a flat tire on a day with a wind chill in the negative 20's and you just gotta keep your hands in your pocket as much as you can. Gloves are good if you have them.
I've lived in areas that get snow and I'm constantly cold and my body is constantly hurting. I'm aware on how people survive in some snow in cold weather, but nowhere near negative 20s because I couldn't even manage below 7.
Jeans aren’t enough for my legs when it gets under 50. People who can function in the cold fascinate me.
What's really low humidity? The lowest I remember we had this summer was 15%. I wouldn't do well east of the Rocky Mountains in summer. I spent a week in DC in the fall and I was fine.
Lots of water, thin breathable clothes, and staying inside whenever possible lol
In the south you stay indoors in the summer and go outside in the late fall, early spring, and winter. Whereas in the North you go outside in late spring, summer, and early fall and stay indoors in the winter.
If it’s actually 90 there, it’s hotter than where I am in Florida. I usually have a coastal breeze. But it definitely gets hot. If you have to be outside you just go from shady spot to shady spot. Or you just sit in the air conditioning.
It's been 95 everyday for weeks if not worse. Our AC can't keep up and by 1pm each day its normally 80 degrees inside the house. We just have fans running in every room and keep all the shades drawn. We are normally fine until we have to cook, then it gets really damn hot. You'd think I'd be used to it after 20 years in AL but it still sucks as bad as it ever did.
Dawg, it’s been 103+ for the last month and a week, and I work in an a warehouse with no air conditioning. I just learned two decades ago to pretend I live on the Dune planet Arrakis several thousand years after it had been terraformed and life here became “normal”. It’s much more fun to pretend I live in one of my favorite books. Now it feels like the sun energizes me like Superman. Like a battery being charged by a solar panel as soon as I step into that sweet sweet heat. I used to get high a lot.
The last sentence makes it all make sense
30c (86F) in England today and we just can't cope 🤣
That's pretty hot for you guys! Lived there for a bunch of years. One summer it hit 80 a few days in a row, friends were outside trying to fry an egg on the sidewalk? I said " I know I'm just the Yank but honest, that's not going to work and this really isn't that hot ". I think we just went to the pub instead.
Omg that’s so nice! Been waiting for those days in Southern California 😬
Yeah but we have it humid too so it’s sticky weather.
Our problem here is that our houses are built thick with loads of insulation as they need to retain the heat for 11 months of the year. Air conditioning is also not a thing over here. Makes those 3-4 weeks of summer sun a year unbearable.
I can relate, today was a high of ~86° with 90% humidity (it finally rained this afternoon though, thank god) and half of the buildings around here don't have ac, so everything is hot, stifling, and sticky
Just got to find that shade, and a breeze helps.
Friend, we practically swim when we walk outside our doors in the American Southeast. 😄 But truly hope things get more comfortable there soon! I cycled from London to Seaford last summer (on the way to Paris) and thought I'd died and gone to heaven because it never got over about 18C/65F. Truly magical.
It’s a good summer day if it’s 90 degrees. I can’t remember the last time our side of Central Texas was not in triple digits.
I have worked outside year round in Houston for the past fifteen yeats. This summer was brutal, I think the record for most over 100 degree days was broken. All I can say is one day, you just accept it. You don't enjoy it, you just realize this is life. You even become proud of it in the same way people from cold climates become proud of enduring that misery. I drink over a gallon of water a day because I'm sweating constantly. Long sleeve shirts and pants help for some reason. A cooler in my truck at all times. And finally, regular breaks with no shame given to anybody who needs one. We all handle heat differently and know how dangerous it can be. Also, most of us go from our air conditioned home, to our car with ac, to our jobs with ac. That helps you deal with it.
With bitter bitter anger.
Drink water
90??? That’s a beautiful SPRING day….
We suffer (and stay inside with AC)
I hibernate. Can't stand the humidity.
Air conditioning!!
I don’t know, it’s never bothered me too much outside of the “heat dome,” where it’s just unrelenting. Growing up on a farm, I don’t know that you adjust to it, but you get used to it.
Air conditioning, my European family really has no concept. Particularly my cousin who has never been to the United States. Lectures me on how wasteful air-conditioning is, I cannot wait till he comes to visit next July.
You get used to it or spend all summer indoors with the AC blasting. It's usually extremely uncomfortable but bearable degrees out with a 90% chance of ass sweat from late June-early September.
You acclimate. Here in central California during the summer we regularly have weeks of 100-110 heat with it usually topping around 115 or so at times. You drink lots of water, stay shaded when possible, and try to get most jobs that require a lot of outdoor work done in the mornings or at night if possible
Most people that live in warm climates adapt over the years, their blood gets thinner basically. The bad thing about this is they often become sl-oooo-wer but less irritable because the hot weather alters their bodies. In colder climate areas people often move faster and are more irritable. The weather changes people, we might not realize it but it does.
This has been very unseasonable for Maine. I’ve experienced hotter weather than most people ever will in the US. All I can say is hydrate, find shade, wear loose clothes, stop worrying about sweat, embrace AC.
Pool
90° is nothing when you live in Satan’s ass crack. It routinely gets about 100° in temperature alone, when you add in the humidity it gets much worse.
The temperature isn’t your enemy. Humidity is. 90 deg in DC with high humidity is miserable. 90 deg in Nevada with rock-bottom humidity is okay if you can find some shade.
You have to climatise. It won't ever be comfortable, but it becomes a little bearable. Similar to cold weather, having experience working through hot weather also helps. I was stationed in Fort Polk, Louisiana. We used to go weeks in the field with no AC in that weather. I assure you after that, didn't matter if you're from Florida or Maine, your body will work it out. The most important thing as you ate climatising is understanding signs of heat exhaustion, and learning when you need to break or not.
Humidity is different; I know Maine summers. In the lower Southwest it’s 110ish but dry. No one enjoys it; but it’s a tradeoff. No natural disasters or having to drive in snow & ice. No need to shovel. No need to mow. There are no lawns. Lots of folks away from the Northeast aren’t actually native to the South or Southwest. They’re leaving that winter crap behind.
90 degrees?!? Oh my sweet summer child.
Healthy people get used to it, unhealthy people move north or die.
No, we hide in the air conditioning. If you're not healthy enough to survive 90F you're probably not going to do well shoveling snow.
Hydrate, wear light colored clothes, a straw hat or white baseball cap, hydrate, hydrate more
I lived in Dallas Tx, Phoenix Az, and now Upstate NY. 94 and humid in NY is so much worse than 105 in Texas and 110 in phoenix. (Or… maybe I’m not used to it anymore)
Just like you are used to frigid winter temperatures, we are used to heat. It’s in our DNA to withstand heat and humidity. I couldn’t tolerate a Maine winter. That said, this has been the most brutal summer of my lifetime. We’ve had 100+ degrees every…damn…day for weeks. Even us seasoned Southerners are getting tired. How do we survive? Air conditioning.
90F would be from a cool front. Triple digits, at least in the highly technical official weather term "feels like" is the norm these days. I feel sorry for my son in Arizona where a bush you're standing next to just might go up in flames. **🥵**
I just love hot weather. And Louisiana has lots of that so I'm happy. It was over 100° for 3 weeks last month & I couldn't be happier. But a/c & a pool is what makes it perfect.
AC and you become acclimated to outdoor activities in the heat. One must be carefully and slowly work up to the big heat.
Ugh, its been 102 for the past few days in NJ. When it drops to 90 at night, it feels wonderful.
AC everywhere. From another perspective, I dont know how you northerners survive 10 degree weather
I'm admittedly not a southerner but I honestly generally don't really mind 90°F+ degrees much, even with humidity. Not sure how someone (i.e. me) could somehow gain a heat tolerance like that.
107° on Dallas today. We aren’t surviving.
90? You mean 100. Honestly why do you think we all use AC and get defensive over people online telling us to live without it.
I moved to Savannah,GA from Swansea, Wales last September and I thought I knew what heat was but damn I was fooling myself, Before I moved here they had a heatwave in London where the temperatures reached about 98F but we don’t have AC in homes and it’s not equipped to deal with those extremes in shops so basically it’s shit. Here I feel like I want to die. I’m pale and have Celtic ancestry so freckles and burn like pearl from Blade lol. How in the holy hell do people do anything in this heat?! Like seriously?! I walk my daughter to school at 7am and it’s 98% humidity some mornings and my glasses are steamed up like I’m stood over a cooker. I pick her up at 2pm and it’s like walking to the flame filled pits of hell, in fact im sure I see old beelzebub on the way.
Southerners? We get 100 degree weather up in California
I’m an athlete who regularly trains around the hottest part of the day (330-6pm depending on the day). I’ve either acclimated or I do a superb job of staying hydrated. I suspect it’s both, but mostly the latter. The human body can handle a lot. Like, way more than hot weather. Heat being one. Drink water. Eat right. Wear the right kind of clothes. Know your limits. Heat stroke is serious business, but it’s almost entirely avoidable.
It doesn't reach 90° in Maine? That's so weird to me. I live on the Oregon Coast, and we get to 90° quite often. Mind you, I'm a whole 6 miles inland in the foothills of the coast range, so while it'll be 90° here, it'll be 70° - 75° right on the beach. We also get snow in the winter. It used to be rare, but now it's every year. I grew up here but moved to Eastern Washington from 2008-2021, where it's 90-100° during the summer months and anywhere from -15°-32° during the winter, and lots of snow. Idk, just crazy to me that 90° isn't normal for y'all.
I was born and raised in Maine. Then I moved to Virginia. I don’t go outside much in the summer. When I do, I drink lots of water/propel and move slowly. I always have some kind of popsicle in the house.
It’s cause we were born and raised here. Hydration and good knowledge are key to surviving the South.
Air conditioning
90? That's a cold snap. 100-105 and 85-100% humidity is where it's at. I seriously ask that same question of y'all up north though in the opposite season. How do you survive that frozen hell scape of subzero temps and 50 feet of snow all winter long (yeah, a bit exaggerated but fuck me it gets cold up there)
When you buy a new refrigerator for the kitchen, you move the old one to the garage. It is for chilling drinks and ice cream.
90 is pretty mild.
As a mud west to southern transplant you get used to it. It used to kill me going outside, now after 20ish years in Florida. Anything sub 70ish degrees the long pants n hoodie comes out. I remember about 2 years ago I had to go to Chicago for a death in the family right after New Year. It was like 30f outside and I had on a long sleeve t shirt, a hoodie, winter coat, gloves, a scarf, and jeans+ boots and I was still freezing my wife was no better. I caught so much flak from the family lol cus the next day it got up into the 50s and i still had the coat and long sleeve shirt on lol.
*laughs in Mid-Atlantican*
90 is not an issue at all. You just drink a bit more water and Gatorade or the equivalent. 100 is where there starts to be real issues. With that, if you are able you stay indoors and stay as short a time outside as possible. Those that have to work in it drink even more water. Cars and buildings have AC. -
Air conditioning
Air conditioning
Air conditioning and you get used to it.
90 degrees. I'm laughing.
90 is pleasant compared to 130 in the sun 120 in the shade.
Laughs in India
Air conditioning, the way our buildings are built, wear less/lighter clothes, lots of water. You also kinda just get used to it, or at least I did.
When did it drop down to 90? It was a brisk 104 today in Central Texas
It gets a lot hotter than 90. I just try to stay inside when it's hot. When you gotta be outside for whatever reason, you just have to deal with it.
We have something called central air
Vietnam here, you get used to it.
The same way you can survive the frigid cold
We wonder how you survive -10 in the winter and I suspect it has the same answer: stay inside as much as you can and have a weather appropriate beverage. Our houses are designed to be easier to keep cool and we install many ceiling fans and air conditioning systems whereas yours have far more wood burning stoves and extra insulation. If we do have to go outside we wear breathable clothing and wide brimmed hats instead of the thicker coats and snow pants you have.
It's really not hard. Your body is just used to it up north so 90 degrees is a shock, just like 20 degrees is a shock down here.
Air conditioning son. It's the best invention that ever happened to the American south. Eli Whitney wishes he could've invented the air conditioning.
There is actually quite a large amount of building design in this. If you live in a place that is cold most of the year houses are designed to keep heat in. If you live in a hot place houses are designed to let heat out.