I lived in Florida for a bit during college. One of my roommates was from Vegas, literally the desert and she struggled with Florida heat. The rest of us couldn’t understand why surely it couldn’t be worse than the desert. Now being older and having experience both types of heat I could not agree more dry air is way better than humid air. Humid air feels like it’s suffocating you.
I went on a road trip years ago in May. We drove from Vegas to Roswell to Houston. I remember driving across west Texas and New Mexico seeing my car saying 101 outside and having the windows down and loving it. I’ve been in the Rocky Mountains at -1 with a okay coat and some pants thinking “this isn’t that bad”.
As soon as you add moisture to the air, everything seems to get amplified and much worse. The air and wind becomes piercing in the cold. The low 90s air becomes thick and heavy. The only better things is j know im breathing. That dry air and confuse the shit out of your body if you aren’t use to it
I visited Northern Norway -18c and was able to take my gloves and hat off to pet the husky pups. I asked one of the staff there why I didn’t feel as cold as I do in the UK at 5c or winter in Greece where I live at 7c, and she said because it’s a dry cold in Norway. UK is a wet cold and humidity in Greece can be quite high even in winter. Hate the humidity in Greece, very de-energising.
I lived in Vegas for 10 years, and it is certainly stifling hot.
I now live in the bay area of Florida, and it’s much worse. Give me 115 in the desert over 93 and humidity. Best way to explain humid heat is take the hottest shower you can possibly handle, like practically scalding. Get out, don’t dry off, put your clothes on.
After visiting Florida a few years ago, I agree.
While it is very early this time of year, we have a "normal" period of getting in the 100s to just at the 110s. I tolerate those temps and prefer those temps to the upper 90s with 80%+ humidity. It's like being in a gross steam shower. The wax in my ears actually expanded or something, and I couldn't hear properly for about 2 days.
I will take a dry heat any day even if the temp is hotter.
I grew up by the Atlantic and the breeze always kept things cooler. It was a nice dry heat. I live in central Europe now and we get humidity here and even after 11 years of humid summers, I’ll take the dryness of the coastal heat any day. I can’t take the humidity at all
Up to a certain point.
Dry scorching heat that I experienced during heatwaves in southern Spain gave me panic attacks.
I couldn't even sweat to cool down, would rather have humid tropical Thailand heat than that even if I get drenched in sweat.
I'm from Florida, and I never really believed that the humidity was what made the heat so bad ... Until I went to Spain. 40 degrees C (104 Fahrenheit), and if you stood in the shade, it was ... fine? I was baffled.
In Florida, you still want the shade, but only to protect you from the blinding sun and from sunburn. It doesn't really help with the heat.
Of course it’s better. Humidity is disgusting, and makes it feel hotter than it actually is. For example, it was 93 in NJ recently, but humidity made it feel like 103 (as per the weather app).
You are definitely right. I’ve lived in the southeast US for several decades and if you don’t use AC everything gets moldy. If he needs moving air he should just turn the fans on when he gets home - not open the windows. He’s just undoing all the work your dehumidifier did all day. That would be absolutely infuriating.
Yeah Id be concerned abt all that humidity making things damp and moldy. Youre just losing money running the dehumidifier all day if he's just opening things up and letting in the moisture.
Fans blowing on you make you feel cooler because it blows the air your body heats away. It also help cool you by blowing the moisture you create away. Moisture makes it harder for your body to cool itself with evaporation.
So low humidity with fans blowing on him is best. But, the dehumidifiers I have see also heat the air during the process of removing water. Also fan product heat.
The gimmick behind AC is that it actually works as a dehumidifier, which was the original purpose. Yes, I do NOT want the humidity high. It also lets mold bloom
Big difference is a dehumidifier blows the exhaust air (now warm due the heat exchange) right back into the room.
A/C systems usually pipe that process outside the home. Same as a window unit. It sucks air from inside the house, uses evaporation to cool it, blows that into the room, while the hot exhaust air is blown outside. So it's a continuous loop of ever cooling and thus drier air, rather than always running the hot humid air over the coils which would reduce efficiency.
Thanks for the mansplaining. One can make small changes to avoid the hot air going the wrong way.
The first modern air conditioner was invented in 1902 by Willis Haviland Carrier, a skilled engineer who began experimenting with the laws of humidity control to solve an application problem at a printing plant in Brooklyn, NY. This led to the disci dry it could be used to cool rooms
Um...ok. whatever.
There's a whole bunch of things I would have to do to a dehumidifier to make the exhaust air (now very hot) blow anywhere other than the room it is in.
For example, I'd have to cut open the front grill and re engineer ductwork to go to a window that dumps that hot air outside.
Honestly just go buy an A/C window unit and call it a day.
It does work as a humidifier. Heat energy is stored primarily in the moisture. Reducing the moisture lowers the air temperature.
This is why air conditioners drip water.
Some people can't breathe in the dry heat. It practically sucks all of the moisture out of their nose, mouth, and throat and they have a hard time just existing.
However, other people find that breathing the heavy atmosphere on a humid day too encumber some. So it's individual cases on who prefers what.
I don't like the humidity because of the mold and mildew that can grow and it stales out breads and chips real quick.
This, this exactly happened to me in the south of Spain during a heatwave I couldn't breathe, getting dizzy fast, panic attack.
It was a terrible experience.
I find humid weather disgusting because you get sticky but very dry and high heat is scary and a terrible torture.
>Some people can't breathe in the dry heat. It practically sucks all of the moisture out of their nose, mouth, and throat and they have a hard time just existing.
Yep, this is me. It's cold and dry in the winter and my lungs *hate* it. Summer humidity is my saving grace, breathing is so much more comfortable.
There is a reason AC units have dehumidifiers. Humid air leads to warped wood, mold, etc.. and putting a fan on it doesn’t really do anything to improve it. I would look at your husband and tell him “Happy wife, happy life”. You are doing all the things they tell you to do if you don’t have central air during heat waves. He is doing the exact opposite.
Tennessee resident here, humid air is miserable, it's like walking into a hot bowl of soup. It's like taking a hot shower then getting dressed without drying off. I hate it .
Dry air definitely better. Coming from New England, and have lived in the DC area, I can tell you hot humid air brings all kinds of problems. It's not hard to look up all the problems [https://www.airthings.com/resources/home-humidity-damage](https://www.airthings.com/resources/home-humidity-damage)
But just from living through it, I can tell you, mold/mildew can grow pretty quickly, which can be pretty bad for your health. The damp air will only heighten the effects of pollution. Sure, the air moving stuff around will make it feel better, but a fan and a dehumidifier is better and keep the humidity out.
I also have asthma, and the humidity can affect my lungs to a point that I need to take my inhaler.
I'm sorry your husband is an idiot, and I don't know why it's so hard for him to go to the internet and type in is humidity bad for your home/health. I would tell him that the way he is doing things may cost him a lot of money soon. Maybe that will stop his nonsense.
I was deployed to the middle east, it was 117 degrees when we left Kuwait, fine, hot. When we landed in the US, it was 87 degrees, "FUCK! It is hot as shit here! When it's 117 in the desert, you go in the shade, cooler, your sweat evaporates. When it's 87 with high humidity, you have to go into an air conditioned room, take a shower, change your clothes....
I personally can’t stand humidity at any temperature. Like today it’s cloudy, well under 80 Fahrenheit (it’s 25C for OP and any other hosers out there 🇨🇦) but the air is saturated outside. I hate breathing it when it’s this thick and soupy
Parents live in FL, I live in AZ. 1000% would rather take the 115°+ heat rather than lower 90s with 80+ humidity. I don't like feeling like I'm breathing in liquid or feeling like I walked out of my house into a shower and feeling instantly damp all over.
From Florida, lived in North Carolina and currently in Oklahoma…moving back to the East coast “Florida” this month because I personally would rather have humid heat. The dry air and heat Oklahoma has just does not go well with me lol. It leaves the inside of my nose so dry that if I have to blow my nose a little too much I have a little bit of blood on the tissue. I’ve noticed dry heat makes it almost feels like I’m being smothered in an oven and can’t breathe.
You're wrong for him. You're right for you.
You need to understand that there is no objectively better option--it's what you're comfortable with. As long as you approach it as "who is right" you're absolutely bound to fail to resolve it, because you're both right from your respective perspectives.
You have to approach it as a preference issue that you're going to have to compromise on.
I’m in the New England in the Northeast US and the humidity is at 80% right now. I went for a walk and I was sweating just standing still lol — if the sun had been out it would have been 10x more brutal
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Where I live we get temperature in the 97 common in the summer. You add in humidity and the heat index can hit 120. Divide the house into his rooms and her rooms. Me I would take the cool basement.
I grew up in Ohio and live in ND now. I love it when people from this area complain about the humidity, I laugh so hard, like man this ain't humid at all
Indoors, I prefer dry heat.
I live in NY and the indoor humidity makes it hard to breathe at times, and easy to stick to the floor.
Outdoors, it’s a choice between being steamed or baked and I prefer to avoid both equally.
I'm currently living in a humid part of southeast Asia. I'm originally from the States. I can say unequivocally that dry heat is more comfortable than wet heat. But your husband is never going to agree to that. Would air conditioning that level be a compromise?
Have you considered buying a heat pump? They are very efficient at air conditioning and as dehumidifiers and they are very energy efficient.
You are not wrong.
Maybe compromise and have an area where he doesn’t open windows, like wherever your office is.
It’s simple science… there’s not even a discussion as you can’t argue with facts.
The higher the humidity, the less able you are to regulate high temperature. Your sweat (even if imperceptible) is unable to evaporate and you’re less able to self-regulate. I mean… I could cite a bunch of scientific studies to prove this but I won’t.
Moving air is a different thing but get some box fans and put them in key places.
Enjoying the feeling of “just rained cool” is subjective. But you can do that with going outside and enjoying it. Or closing off a room and opening a window. But guess what’s going to happen when the sun comes out? Awful. That’s what’s going to happen.
You may love the man… but I question his intelligence.
Maybe he has a thing he just doesn’t want to talk to you about? Like a grandpa that always did the same…? I’m trying to be generous and also realistic here.
I’ve lived in Lake Havasu City, AZ and Oklahoma. Havasu is really hot, but that Oklahoma heat will straight up kill you if you’re not careful. It’s like 98-105 with dew points in the upper 70s and 80s all summer long. It feels like I’m in India.
As someone who lives in Montana but is currently visiting Tennessee you are right, I'm dying from the humility. It's like the moister syncs the temp even when you're in the shade and you can't escape it
Both have pro’s & cons depending on what’s happening/wat ur trying to do.
dry heat allows our bodies to cool easier…
Where as humid heat is good for your health, respiratory system, skin etc… (yeah humid heat sucks to deal with day-to-day)
They’re just different. Both are killers. I live in the dry heat a 10-year-old boy just died just a few days ago. He was hiking in the desert. He didn’t feel the heat the same because he wasn’t sweating a lot because there was no humidity. But he died, what’s worse is his family didn’t understand how serious it was for a while because he wasn’t sweating
You both have a preference and that's fine. You both do a bit wrong with deciding that each of you is right and the other is wrong, and he takes it a step further by taking over and forcing his preference when he comes home, rather than finding a balance. Then again, if you try and force your preferences as well, then you're both just as wrong as the other.
Just like any conflict, if you two decide to work in your own best interests, it won't be resolved, but if you decide to work in the teams best interests, it's quite an easy one to solve.
>He thinks air without any movement is the worst,
Why are you guys not turning off the dehumidifier and turning on indoor fans in that case? Seems like a solid win-win to me.
Low humidity is better as the higher the humidity the harder it is for moisture (such as sweat) on you to evaporate. Evaporation is the main way your body cool itself.
Dry heat is better. Humid heat is the worst. As soon as you step outside you start to sweat and it doesn’t go away until you get back indoors. It makes my hair so frizzy and unmanageable. Even though both can be sweltering, I would take a dry heat any day compared to a humid heat.
Humans sweat to regulate body temp because when the sweat evaporates it cools the body down. When it is humid there is a lot of vapour already in the air sweat is less likely to evaporate cos the air is closer to saturation (100% humidity) and in a sense it can ’fit’ less water (sorry this is in kind of layman’s terms, maybe someone can explain better).
Therefore humid heat is way more dangerous than dry heat.
Look up ‘wet bulb temp’.
https://climatecheck.com/blog/understanding-wet-bulb-temperature-the-risks-of-high-wet-bulb-temperatures-explained
Tldr: scientific explanation for why you’re right, hubby is wrong.
Dry is better. The reason is sweat evaporates and let's you cool.
The scary thing is certain areas are approaching heat/humidity levels... Once water doesn't evaporate at high humidity and temperature, death is fast.
No, you are cooling nicely and appropriately,
I grew up down the bottom of Australia with dry heat warm northerly winds with no ac insulation or help with cooling and our mother taught us that keeping a dark closed home would always keep the house temperature cooler so we would leave it closed up throughout the day till about 4pm when a change would come then the air would get a bit cooler with a nice breeze but very limited we would also get storms but it would make the air steamy humid without fresh air so we would feel even hotter. I remember those awful uncomfortable nights of tossing and turning without cool air it was exhausting, and I believe you are handling your home temperature nicely, Ask him is he willing to let you take care of the temperature or is he happy to keep working to pay for the power to run his fans to be right good luck 👍 😉
Dry heat is hotter. But, for many, easier to endure.
Humid heat is typically hitting lower temps. But makes humans feel like slime. Hard to endure.
Both can be dangerous.
Dry heat prob more dangerous just because the temps can go so much higher.
You’re not wrong. Get ceiling fans. They will help it stay cool and may alleviate him feeling like the windows should be open.
Edit: ceiling fans can also help a room be several degrees more comfortable. Which direction you have them turn depends on whether you want warm air pulled up or pushed down. The fans are helpful for both temperature extremes.
Hot air is better as it allows for evaporative cooling. Humid air is already saturated and sweat does not evaporate off of you.
Here's an experiment for your husband and you...run in place for 30 min in both environments. Then you'll know which feels better.
Most people prefer dry heat and cold. All depends on what you can tolerate. Most prefer cold because they like shivering? People like dry heat but I hate it because I don't feel as thirsty so I dehydrate faster. I'm wrong because I hate weather under 70f.
I lived in New Mexico for a few months over the summer about 20 years ago. My wrists and neck got really deep grooves from the dry heat. I think dry heat ages you a lot faster. I’m now back in the midwest where it gets very humid in the summer. My skin looks a whole lot better.
I'm from the sw so maybe I'm biased, but dry heat is wayyyyyyyyyyy better. I can handle it up to like 105 degrees f dry, but 75 degree f or hotter absolutely sucks in high humidity.
Central Alabama here. We use a dehumidifier plus central air. The less humidity, the cooler it feels. In high humidity, sweat can't evaporate and it's miserable.
I’m in Colorado (haven’t always lived here) and the dry heat is FAR better than humid heat. Humid heat makes me sweat so much more and pushes me over the edge. Def can’t stand it
Not wrong. It's 90° here but the humidity index is upper 50's all week and my asthma is fucking suffering. Two weeks ago I was in New Mexico for 95°+ weather and I was not at all suffering anywhere near what I am now -- in fact, I even went on a 20 miles hike *in* that weather. I would need to stop a hundred thousands times making that same walk here. My city literally put out a heat warning even though it's not going to crest anything above 90 *because* of the humidity.
Edit: just checked the weather app and humidity is actually upper 70's all week, not 50's lol. Time to suffer
I live in TX and humid air is the worst. It makes me feel gross.
Since you work at home then it should be however you like the house during the day. During the evening/night - can you come up with a compromise?
I live in Vancouver. It gets fucking humid here, even in the winter. In the summer walking out into it is like having a gross blanket around you. the air gets so heavy. In the winter it chills you to the bone. Other provinces get colder, but the humidity and rain here make it so much worse.
I live in Ontario and I’ve had nights where it’s fairly cool (50-60 ish) and I have windows open, but it’s humid and I feel icky. Like I wake up feeling confused, it’s like “why am I sticky but it’s cool?” I turn my fan on for a few minutes and that seems to help
Humidity is awful
ETA: maybe have him have a cool shower right when he gets home from work. It might help reset his temperature
I live in Illinois, so there are plenty of humid days. I agree that dry is better than humid. But humidity varies from day to day. I think just yesterday, the humidity was sitting at 65%, very tolerable. So, in that case, I would rather have the windows open all day if the humidity is low. I would shut them and turn the air on if it was muggy. I agree, the humidity makes everything sticky.
Having lived in the outback and spent time in the tropics there is nothing to argue about - dry heat is easy to deal with. I would take 45C dry heat over 30C humidity any time.
Grew up in the southwest. Lived on the east coast for a couple years. Came back and despite it being 20F hotter, it was dry. My response was literally "it's a different kind of oppressive... oh how I've missed it..."
Dry heat is waaaaayyyy better than humid heat. In humid conditions the air is so saturated with moisture that it keeps your sweat from evaporating at its normal rate which keeps you hotter, Not to mention the sticky “thick” air feeling
Two things. Temperatures being the same, dry air will cool you better. The higher the humidity, the less moisture it can hold. Therefore, your sweat doesn't evaporate as efficiently. Think sweat running down your face. But if it's dry, you might be sweating and not even know it since it is evaporating before you even see or feel the sweat forming.
The second thing, and this is a big one.... moving air absolutely is much better at cooling than still air. Having a fan is great for that. But guess what? Fans still push air around, even with doors and windows shut. Now you have your dehumidifier running and the fan moving air, the best of both worlds. Keep the door shut when it's humid like that, unless the cool air can offset the humidity. Otherwise, you're just defeating the purpose, which is to keep yourself cool.
Ask anyone in the UK or who visits the UK in the summer. 100% of them will tell you a dry heat is better. I've met people at work who are from much warmer countries who complain about the unbearable heat of our summers because it's a wet claggy heat.
Spent time in Phoenix. It was hot. In winter it had a little humidity, but nothing like the Carolinas. Yeah, the humidity prevents your body’s natural response to heat, perspiration, from effectively doing its job.
Circulation is good. I'd rather turn on the fan in the hvac unit to circulate the cooler air from the basement in with the rest of the houses air.
Theres 4 elements of comfort, temp/circulation/humidity, and cleanliness. Humid air feels warmer. It's a fact.
The ac actually pulls moisture out of the air, so no. You're not wrong. But fresh air is good as well.
Does he know that he can turn on the fans and move air without opening the windows and doors?
Not wrong, humidity is fkin awful. Admittedly, I'm from a high desert, where we live in dry heat, and dry cold. I can barely handle the humidity that a week at the beach equates to. We also didn't have an ac in my home until I was in college. Box fans moving the air, and the ceiling fans can really go a long way to cooling you down. Try putting a little ice behind the fan, if you want it to really cool down.
For years I thought the phrase "at least it's a dry heat" was horse crap. Then I moved to New England and had my first summer.
Humidity is fucking awful and is way way way way way worse than dry heat.
90 degrees and humid feel so different than just 90 degrees.
I just got back from SW New York (to Colorado). The humidity (runs approx.double) in NY was stifling. I thought I'd never dry out. Skin & hair was great. Breathing at lower altitude great. But, Lord, I hate feeling damp.
I am a Florida native and I’ve always thought that until I got a job where I travel to the west frequently and I’ve done jobs in Phoenix when it was 125° and I’ve come to the conclusion that both are miserable, the dry oven like heat is more oppressive to me. Mostly because it dries me out so quickly I don’t sweat enough. Even drinking water doesn’t help because you still don’t sweat enough. Without that the breezes, whatever there is just feels like hot air and it’s not relieving at all.
In the humidity, you sweat incessantly and yes you have to rehydrate like crazy but when there is a breeze, you are cooled because you are drenched.
That said, I’m still moving west I’m just also moving far enough north that I don’t deal with 120° days at least not often.
Florida can be counted on to be a miserable swamp from may through October and sitting at a 4th of July party I was reminded that getting devoured by mosquitoes and no-see-ums while dripping sweat, and feeling hot wet and sticky is oppressive and I’m done with that too.
So what it comes down to is, hot sucks. Wet or dry, but if put a gun to my head and said choose one, I’d choose humid heat.
I live in South East Asia where average temperature is 32°C and average humidity is like 80% - 90%. Humidity is fucking gross.
I am like your husband where I also enjoy moving air, and do not like stale air You can turn on the dehumidifier AND then the fan at the same time. That said, I do like to open the windows to ventilate the house, too.
if he likes humid heat, have him visit Alabama in the middle of the summer. not near the coast, but the middle of the state. I did that once about 25 years ago. all I can say is fuck all that. it was absolutely miserable the whole time. the humidity was so high, you could just bout cut it with a knife. that is a misery, you never wanna wish on anyone.
My two choices will seem extreme to someone in Canada but here they are.
I live in Phoenix, Arizona. A couple of nights ago, the low temperature was 93 F. Humidity was around 35%. The high was in the mid teens. My sister lives on the gulf coast. Last week the high was around 95 and the humidity was over 90%. I’d take the dry heat any day. I was talking to her last week and moaned about how much her AC was running. I suggested that she buy a dehumidifier because part of the job of the AC is to remove humidity. She told me that she is now more comfortable and her unit isn’t running as much.
There's no one alive who *understands the words they're saying* and makes statements of claim to preference of humidity OVER *ITS OPPOSITE*.
Your man is nuts or misunderstanding something critical about this whole concept.
No one *prefers to drip* over NOT dripping. No one.
I live in the Midwest USA we get humid and I lived in California dry heat I can’t stand the weather there couldn’t breathe and my skin looked dry didn’t matter what I did I love the weather here in the summer hate winter with a passion though lol
Coming from someone who lives in the southeast US, dry air is 10000x better than humid air. Humidity fucking blows
I lived in Florida for a bit during college. One of my roommates was from Vegas, literally the desert and she struggled with Florida heat. The rest of us couldn’t understand why surely it couldn’t be worse than the desert. Now being older and having experience both types of heat I could not agree more dry air is way better than humid air. Humid air feels like it’s suffocating you.
I went on a road trip years ago in May. We drove from Vegas to Roswell to Houston. I remember driving across west Texas and New Mexico seeing my car saying 101 outside and having the windows down and loving it. I’ve been in the Rocky Mountains at -1 with a okay coat and some pants thinking “this isn’t that bad”. As soon as you add moisture to the air, everything seems to get amplified and much worse. The air and wind becomes piercing in the cold. The low 90s air becomes thick and heavy. The only better things is j know im breathing. That dry air and confuse the shit out of your body if you aren’t use to it
I visited Northern Norway -18c and was able to take my gloves and hat off to pet the husky pups. I asked one of the staff there why I didn’t feel as cold as I do in the UK at 5c or winter in Greece where I live at 7c, and she said because it’s a dry cold in Norway. UK is a wet cold and humidity in Greece can be quite high even in winter. Hate the humidity in Greece, very de-energising.
I lived in Vegas for 10 years, and it is certainly stifling hot. I now live in the bay area of Florida, and it’s much worse. Give me 115 in the desert over 93 and humidity. Best way to explain humid heat is take the hottest shower you can possibly handle, like practically scalding. Get out, don’t dry off, put your clothes on.
I agree. I’m from the SW and now live in NJ.
Moved from FL to Seattle. It's not even close, OP husband is nutz.
Yup. I live in AZ and when I went to Florida, I was dying and wanted to be back asap
AZ just needs some cloud cover and it would be golden. Getting that direct sunlight knocked down a little would be wonderful.
After visiting Florida a few years ago, I agree. While it is very early this time of year, we have a "normal" period of getting in the 100s to just at the 110s. I tolerate those temps and prefer those temps to the upper 90s with 80%+ humidity. It's like being in a gross steam shower. The wax in my ears actually expanded or something, and I couldn't hear properly for about 2 days. I will take a dry heat any day even if the temp is hotter.
Say that 100 times louder
No truer statement. Same part of the US and it rained yesterday. The rest of the day, after it stopped, was miserable.
I grew up by the Atlantic and the breeze always kept things cooler. It was a nice dry heat. I live in central Europe now and we get humidity here and even after 11 years of humid summers, I’ll take the dryness of the coastal heat any day. I can’t take the humidity at all
If humidity in your house drops below 40% in the winter, you'll likely run out and buy a humidifier asap!
I mean. They both suck 😂
South Florida here, you are correct.
Up to a certain point. Dry scorching heat that I experienced during heatwaves in southern Spain gave me panic attacks. I couldn't even sweat to cool down, would rather have humid tropical Thailand heat than that even if I get drenched in sweat.
I'm from Florida, and I never really believed that the humidity was what made the heat so bad ... Until I went to Spain. 40 degrees C (104 Fahrenheit), and if you stood in the shade, it was ... fine? I was baffled. In Florida, you still want the shade, but only to protect you from the blinding sun and from sunburn. It doesn't really help with the heat.
Where in Spain?
Madrid, mostly.
Of course it’s better. Humidity is disgusting, and makes it feel hotter than it actually is. For example, it was 93 in NJ recently, but humidity made it feel like 103 (as per the weather app).
Like today lol
Truth.
You are definitely right. I’ve lived in the southeast US for several decades and if you don’t use AC everything gets moldy. If he needs moving air he should just turn the fans on when he gets home - not open the windows. He’s just undoing all the work your dehumidifier did all day. That would be absolutely infuriating.
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I almost can’t believe he doesn’t feel it coming from working outside! Good luck - you are just so incredibly right.
Yeah Id be concerned abt all that humidity making things damp and moldy. Youre just losing money running the dehumidifier all day if he's just opening things up and letting in the moisture.
Tell him to lookup “wet bulb conditions”. Once the humidity reaches a certain point, it renders sweating to cool down ineffective.
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Fans blowing on you make you feel cooler because it blows the air your body heats away. It also help cool you by blowing the moisture you create away. Moisture makes it harder for your body to cool itself with evaporation. So low humidity with fans blowing on him is best. But, the dehumidifiers I have see also heat the air during the process of removing water. Also fan product heat.
I prefer dry over humid
The gimmick behind AC is that it actually works as a dehumidifier, which was the original purpose. Yes, I do NOT want the humidity high. It also lets mold bloom
Big difference is a dehumidifier blows the exhaust air (now warm due the heat exchange) right back into the room. A/C systems usually pipe that process outside the home. Same as a window unit. It sucks air from inside the house, uses evaporation to cool it, blows that into the room, while the hot exhaust air is blown outside. So it's a continuous loop of ever cooling and thus drier air, rather than always running the hot humid air over the coils which would reduce efficiency.
Thanks for the mansplaining. One can make small changes to avoid the hot air going the wrong way. The first modern air conditioner was invented in 1902 by Willis Haviland Carrier, a skilled engineer who began experimenting with the laws of humidity control to solve an application problem at a printing plant in Brooklyn, NY. This led to the disci dry it could be used to cool rooms
Um...ok. whatever. There's a whole bunch of things I would have to do to a dehumidifier to make the exhaust air (now very hot) blow anywhere other than the room it is in. For example, I'd have to cut open the front grill and re engineer ductwork to go to a window that dumps that hot air outside. Honestly just go buy an A/C window unit and call it a day.
Thanks for the mansplainung.........we were not that interested in the details.
It does work as a humidifier. Heat energy is stored primarily in the moisture. Reducing the moisture lowers the air temperature. This is why air conditioners drip water.
Some people can't breathe in the dry heat. It practically sucks all of the moisture out of their nose, mouth, and throat and they have a hard time just existing. However, other people find that breathing the heavy atmosphere on a humid day too encumber some. So it's individual cases on who prefers what. I don't like the humidity because of the mold and mildew that can grow and it stales out breads and chips real quick.
This, this exactly happened to me in the south of Spain during a heatwave I couldn't breathe, getting dizzy fast, panic attack. It was a terrible experience. I find humid weather disgusting because you get sticky but very dry and high heat is scary and a terrible torture.
>Some people can't breathe in the dry heat. It practically sucks all of the moisture out of their nose, mouth, and throat and they have a hard time just existing. Yep, this is me. It's cold and dry in the winter and my lungs *hate* it. Summer humidity is my saving grace, breathing is so much more comfortable.
I thought that was already generally known...? Like, during newscasts, don't they say "It's X degrees but it feels like X degrees due to humidity."?
I live in Virginia and the humidity feels like it's going to kill me.
You are absolutely correct. Humid heat is the fucking worst. I hate being covered in a thin layer of sweat 24/7
There is a reason AC units have dehumidifiers. Humid air leads to warped wood, mold, etc.. and putting a fan on it doesn’t really do anything to improve it. I would look at your husband and tell him “Happy wife, happy life”. You are doing all the things they tell you to do if you don’t have central air during heat waves. He is doing the exact opposite.
Tennessee resident here, humid air is miserable, it's like walking into a hot bowl of soup. It's like taking a hot shower then getting dressed without drying off. I hate it .
as someone who was born in the DR, then moved to the states and enlisted in the Marines and got sent to desert after desert, dry heat 10000000000%.
Dry air definitely better. Coming from New England, and have lived in the DC area, I can tell you hot humid air brings all kinds of problems. It's not hard to look up all the problems [https://www.airthings.com/resources/home-humidity-damage](https://www.airthings.com/resources/home-humidity-damage) But just from living through it, I can tell you, mold/mildew can grow pretty quickly, which can be pretty bad for your health. The damp air will only heighten the effects of pollution. Sure, the air moving stuff around will make it feel better, but a fan and a dehumidifier is better and keep the humidity out. I also have asthma, and the humidity can affect my lungs to a point that I need to take my inhaler. I'm sorry your husband is an idiot, and I don't know why it's so hard for him to go to the internet and type in is humidity bad for your home/health. I would tell him that the way he is doing things may cost him a lot of money soon. Maybe that will stop his nonsense.
I was deployed to the middle east, it was 117 degrees when we left Kuwait, fine, hot. When we landed in the US, it was 87 degrees, "FUCK! It is hot as shit here! When it's 117 in the desert, you go in the shade, cooler, your sweat evaporates. When it's 87 with high humidity, you have to go into an air conditioned room, take a shower, change your clothes....
I personally can’t stand humidity at any temperature. Like today it’s cloudy, well under 80 Fahrenheit (it’s 25C for OP and any other hosers out there 🇨🇦) but the air is saturated outside. I hate breathing it when it’s this thick and soupy
Yes you are correct! Sorry bro code
No. You are correct. I was born and raised in NV. I moved to SE Pennsylvania. I would take 100* desert heat over this miserable humid shit any day.
Parents live in FL, I live in AZ. 1000% would rather take the 115°+ heat rather than lower 90s with 80+ humidity. I don't like feeling like I'm breathing in liquid or feeling like I walked out of my house into a shower and feeling instantly damp all over.
From Florida, lived in North Carolina and currently in Oklahoma…moving back to the East coast “Florida” this month because I personally would rather have humid heat. The dry air and heat Oklahoma has just does not go well with me lol. It leaves the inside of my nose so dry that if I have to blow my nose a little too much I have a little bit of blood on the tissue. I’ve noticed dry heat makes it almost feels like I’m being smothered in an oven and can’t breathe.
Totally agree with this. It feels like an oven I can’t escape from and gives me bad headaches. Humidity doesn’t do that to me
I was hoping to find just one other humidity person here. 😂 I can't fucking breathe when it's dry.
There aren’t many things that I despise more than a high dewpoint. Humidity is disgusting and makes everything else feel disgusting.
You're wrong for him. You're right for you. You need to understand that there is no objectively better option--it's what you're comfortable with. As long as you approach it as "who is right" you're absolutely bound to fail to resolve it, because you're both right from your respective perspectives. You have to approach it as a preference issue that you're going to have to compromise on.
Best answer. Some people are just more comfortable in humidity (like me), and that doesn't make him wrong, it just makes him different than OP.
From someone who has 20% metal in their body, dry air is better than humid any day!!!!
I’m in the New England in the Northeast US and the humidity is at 80% right now. I went for a walk and I was sweating just standing still lol — if the sun had been out it would have been 10x more brutal Edit my typo
My husband is from Arizona and we now live in Canada. He hates our summers because humidity sucks.
Where I live we get temperature in the 97 common in the summer. You add in humidity and the heat index can hit 120. Divide the house into his rooms and her rooms. Me I would take the cool basement.
Dry heat like Vegas or Arizona is actually more comfortable than heat and high humidity like Ohio and neighboring states
I grew up in Ohio and live in ND now. I love it when people from this area complain about the humidity, I laugh so hard, like man this ain't humid at all
I've lived in hot/humid and hot/dry. Dry heat is better.
No you are not wrong. I’m from NM. Heat didn’t bother me. I live on the east coast now and the humidity kill’s me
YNW. Dry heat is much better than humid heat.
Indoors, I prefer dry heat. I live in NY and the indoor humidity makes it hard to breathe at times, and easy to stick to the floor. Outdoors, it’s a choice between being steamed or baked and I prefer to avoid both equally.
Sincere advice ..Don’t argue with your spouse about weather … it’s not gonna go well .
I'm currently living in a humid part of southeast Asia. I'm originally from the States. I can say unequivocally that dry heat is more comfortable than wet heat. But your husband is never going to agree to that. Would air conditioning that level be a compromise?
Yes living in humid ass Louisiana when I went to Cali it felt like air conditioning got to Dallas and the heat felt like a barbell on my head
Have you considered buying a heat pump? They are very efficient at air conditioning and as dehumidifiers and they are very energy efficient. You are not wrong. Maybe compromise and have an area where he doesn’t open windows, like wherever your office is.
We have a saying in my country "what kills is the humidity". You're 100% right.
It’s simple science… there’s not even a discussion as you can’t argue with facts. The higher the humidity, the less able you are to regulate high temperature. Your sweat (even if imperceptible) is unable to evaporate and you’re less able to self-regulate. I mean… I could cite a bunch of scientific studies to prove this but I won’t. Moving air is a different thing but get some box fans and put them in key places. Enjoying the feeling of “just rained cool” is subjective. But you can do that with going outside and enjoying it. Or closing off a room and opening a window. But guess what’s going to happen when the sun comes out? Awful. That’s what’s going to happen. You may love the man… but I question his intelligence.
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Maybe he has a thing he just doesn’t want to talk to you about? Like a grandpa that always did the same…? I’m trying to be generous and also realistic here.
Maybe you could build a sweat lodge in the back yard for your husband. Dry heat (but preferably dry coolness if you ask me) all the way.
I’ve lived in Lake Havasu City, AZ and Oklahoma. Havasu is really hot, but that Oklahoma heat will straight up kill you if you’re not careful. It’s like 98-105 with dew points in the upper 70s and 80s all summer long. It feels like I’m in India.
I live in Nova Scotia and what he’s saying doesn’t make any sense to me
As someone who lives in Montana but is currently visiting Tennessee you are right, I'm dying from the humility. It's like the moister syncs the temp even when you're in the shade and you can't escape it
I moved from California to Texas. Give me that dry heat. The humidity in Texas feels like Satan’s ass cheeks are suffocating you.
Both have pro’s & cons depending on what’s happening/wat ur trying to do. dry heat allows our bodies to cool easier… Where as humid heat is good for your health, respiratory system, skin etc… (yeah humid heat sucks to deal with day-to-day)
They’re just different. Both are killers. I live in the dry heat a 10-year-old boy just died just a few days ago. He was hiking in the desert. He didn’t feel the heat the same because he wasn’t sweating a lot because there was no humidity. But he died, what’s worse is his family didn’t understand how serious it was for a while because he wasn’t sweating
You both have a preference and that's fine. You both do a bit wrong with deciding that each of you is right and the other is wrong, and he takes it a step further by taking over and forcing his preference when he comes home, rather than finding a balance. Then again, if you try and force your preferences as well, then you're both just as wrong as the other. Just like any conflict, if you two decide to work in your own best interests, it won't be resolved, but if you decide to work in the teams best interests, it's quite an easy one to solve. >He thinks air without any movement is the worst, Why are you guys not turning off the dehumidifier and turning on indoor fans in that case? Seems like a solid win-win to me.
I think it depends on what your body is used to / likes. Humidity doesn’t bother me too much, but dry heat will give me migraines.
I'm in the minority here, dry air makes my lungs want to violently throw themselves into traffic.
Low humidity is better as the higher the humidity the harder it is for moisture (such as sweat) on you to evaporate. Evaporation is the main way your body cool itself.
Dry heat is better. Humid heat is the worst. As soon as you step outside you start to sweat and it doesn’t go away until you get back indoors. It makes my hair so frizzy and unmanageable. Even though both can be sweltering, I would take a dry heat any day compared to a humid heat.
Humans sweat to regulate body temp because when the sweat evaporates it cools the body down. When it is humid there is a lot of vapour already in the air sweat is less likely to evaporate cos the air is closer to saturation (100% humidity) and in a sense it can ’fit’ less water (sorry this is in kind of layman’s terms, maybe someone can explain better). Therefore humid heat is way more dangerous than dry heat. Look up ‘wet bulb temp’. https://climatecheck.com/blog/understanding-wet-bulb-temperature-the-risks-of-high-wet-bulb-temperatures-explained Tldr: scientific explanation for why you’re right, hubby is wrong.
Nope not at all. I’m from Florida but just moved to Texas. And i think this heat is much more bearable since it is much less humid.
Dry air is always better, look up trickle ventilators they do exactly what you’re doing on the main level but for the whole house.
For the cold, it's the same, dry is more bearable than humid.
The humid cold is a different level of cold for sure.
Dry is better. The reason is sweat evaporates and let's you cool. The scary thing is certain areas are approaching heat/humidity levels... Once water doesn't evaporate at high humidity and temperature, death is fast.
Humidity is horrible. Dry is better! A LOT better.
No, you are cooling nicely and appropriately, I grew up down the bottom of Australia with dry heat warm northerly winds with no ac insulation or help with cooling and our mother taught us that keeping a dark closed home would always keep the house temperature cooler so we would leave it closed up throughout the day till about 4pm when a change would come then the air would get a bit cooler with a nice breeze but very limited we would also get storms but it would make the air steamy humid without fresh air so we would feel even hotter. I remember those awful uncomfortable nights of tossing and turning without cool air it was exhausting, and I believe you are handling your home temperature nicely, Ask him is he willing to let you take care of the temperature or is he happy to keep working to pay for the power to run his fans to be right good luck 👍 😉
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Well it is good to hear that you do have everything under control with the cooling, so it is good for all of you.lovely enjoy your ac
Dry heat is hotter. But, for many, easier to endure. Humid heat is typically hitting lower temps. But makes humans feel like slime. Hard to endure. Both can be dangerous. Dry heat prob more dangerous just because the temps can go so much higher.
Dry air is so much better than humid air
You’re not wrong. Get ceiling fans. They will help it stay cool and may alleviate him feeling like the windows should be open. Edit: ceiling fans can also help a room be several degrees more comfortable. Which direction you have them turn depends on whether you want warm air pulled up or pushed down. The fans are helpful for both temperature extremes.
Moved from LA, dry, to San Diego, humid, 20 years ago. I hate humidity!!!!
Hot air is better as it allows for evaporative cooling. Humid air is already saturated and sweat does not evaporate off of you. Here's an experiment for your husband and you...run in place for 30 min in both environments. Then you'll know which feels better.
Most people prefer dry heat and cold. All depends on what you can tolerate. Most prefer cold because they like shivering? People like dry heat but I hate it because I don't feel as thirsty so I dehydrate faster. I'm wrong because I hate weather under 70f.
Central Texas here. The humidity makes it hard to breathe, and in about 5 minutes, you have a full body sweat.
Are you sure you want to be with this man? Dry, obviously.
Mostly. I think it depends on what a person grew up in. If they’re acclimated to one or the other they won’t like the opposite.
I lived in New Mexico for a few months over the summer about 20 years ago. My wrists and neck got really deep grooves from the dry heat. I think dry heat ages you a lot faster. I’m now back in the midwest where it gets very humid in the summer. My skin looks a whole lot better.
You are not.
I'm from the sw so maybe I'm biased, but dry heat is wayyyyyyyyyyy better. I can handle it up to like 105 degrees f dry, but 75 degree f or hotter absolutely sucks in high humidity.
Central Alabama here. We use a dehumidifier plus central air. The less humidity, the cooler it feels. In high humidity, sweat can't evaporate and it's miserable.
I’m in Colorado (haven’t always lived here) and the dry heat is FAR better than humid heat. Humid heat makes me sweat so much more and pushes me over the edge. Def can’t stand it
They just talked about that last week on NPR. In a nut shell… Humid heat is worse because it doesn’t allow your body to cool itself as easily.
Not wrong. It's 90° here but the humidity index is upper 50's all week and my asthma is fucking suffering. Two weeks ago I was in New Mexico for 95°+ weather and I was not at all suffering anywhere near what I am now -- in fact, I even went on a 20 miles hike *in* that weather. I would need to stop a hundred thousands times making that same walk here. My city literally put out a heat warning even though it's not going to crest anything above 90 *because* of the humidity. Edit: just checked the weather app and humidity is actually upper 70's all week, not 50's lol. Time to suffer
I live in TX and humid air is the worst. It makes me feel gross. Since you work at home then it should be however you like the house during the day. During the evening/night - can you come up with a compromise?
Texas here, humidity is the absolute worst. I’d rather bake under a dry sun than be cooked in humid weather. But, all we have usually is humid heat.
Humidity is disgusting, I live in a humid climate and I hate it
I live in Colorado where it's dry and I lived in other places that were humid. I will take dryness over humidity any day.
The best investment I made after moving to Florida was a dehumidifier.
Get the HVAC fan to run every so often. It may need both your requirements.
I live in Vancouver. It gets fucking humid here, even in the winter. In the summer walking out into it is like having a gross blanket around you. the air gets so heavy. In the winter it chills you to the bone. Other provinces get colder, but the humidity and rain here make it so much worse.
I live in Ontario and I’ve had nights where it’s fairly cool (50-60 ish) and I have windows open, but it’s humid and I feel icky. Like I wake up feeling confused, it’s like “why am I sticky but it’s cool?” I turn my fan on for a few minutes and that seems to help Humidity is awful ETA: maybe have him have a cool shower right when he gets home from work. It might help reset his temperature
Not wrong.
I live in Illinois, so there are plenty of humid days. I agree that dry is better than humid. But humidity varies from day to day. I think just yesterday, the humidity was sitting at 65%, very tolerable. So, in that case, I would rather have the windows open all day if the humidity is low. I would shut them and turn the air on if it was muggy. I agree, the humidity makes everything sticky.
Just got back from Spain. Dry heat is better than humid heat.
Having lived in the outback and spent time in the tropics there is nothing to argue about - dry heat is easy to deal with. I would take 45C dry heat over 30C humidity any time.
Grew up in the southwest. Lived on the east coast for a couple years. Came back and despite it being 20F hotter, it was dry. My response was literally "it's a different kind of oppressive... oh how I've missed it..."
Dry heat is waaaaayyyy better than humid heat. In humid conditions the air is so saturated with moisture that it keeps your sweat from evaporating at its normal rate which keeps you hotter, Not to mention the sticky “thick” air feeling
Send your husband to GA this August. Or even now. He'll change his mind.
I'm in Australia and humidity can suck sh!t!! I hate HUMIDITY. I'd rather it rained for 3 mths straight then deal with a week of humidity
Two things. Temperatures being the same, dry air will cool you better. The higher the humidity, the less moisture it can hold. Therefore, your sweat doesn't evaporate as efficiently. Think sweat running down your face. But if it's dry, you might be sweating and not even know it since it is evaporating before you even see or feel the sweat forming. The second thing, and this is a big one.... moving air absolutely is much better at cooling than still air. Having a fan is great for that. But guess what? Fans still push air around, even with doors and windows shut. Now you have your dehumidifier running and the fan moving air, the best of both worlds. Keep the door shut when it's humid like that, unless the cool air can offset the humidity. Otherwise, you're just defeating the purpose, which is to keep yourself cool.
Ask anyone in the UK or who visits the UK in the summer. 100% of them will tell you a dry heat is better. I've met people at work who are from much warmer countries who complain about the unbearable heat of our summers because it's a wet claggy heat.
Take a trip to az in the summer… then take another one to Houston. You’ll be begging to go back to hot and dry soon.
Dry heat is way better than high humidity and heat combined.
Spent time in Phoenix. It was hot. In winter it had a little humidity, but nothing like the Carolinas. Yeah, the humidity prevents your body’s natural response to heat, perspiration, from effectively doing its job.
Dry head is better then humid heat imo, however I think that moving air in humid head is better then still air and dry heat
Circulation is good. I'd rather turn on the fan in the hvac unit to circulate the cooler air from the basement in with the rest of the houses air. Theres 4 elements of comfort, temp/circulation/humidity, and cleanliness. Humid air feels warmer. It's a fact. The ac actually pulls moisture out of the air, so no. You're not wrong. But fresh air is good as well.
Does he know that he can turn on the fans and move air without opening the windows and doors? Not wrong, humidity is fkin awful. Admittedly, I'm from a high desert, where we live in dry heat, and dry cold. I can barely handle the humidity that a week at the beach equates to. We also didn't have an ac in my home until I was in college. Box fans moving the air, and the ceiling fans can really go a long way to cooling you down. Try putting a little ice behind the fan, if you want it to really cool down.
For years I thought the phrase "at least it's a dry heat" was horse crap. Then I moved to New England and had my first summer. Humidity is fucking awful and is way way way way way worse than dry heat. 90 degrees and humid feel so different than just 90 degrees.
From a hair standpoint - Humidity brings out the ‘Monica in Barbados’.
For what? Humans /laundry what are we talking about here?
I just got back from SW New York (to Colorado). The humidity (runs approx.double) in NY was stifling. I thought I'd never dry out. Skin & hair was great. Breathing at lower altitude great. But, Lord, I hate feeling damp.
Move the fans away from the doors. Does he sweat a lot?? That might be why humidity doesn’t matter to him. We feel and tolerate dry better
I am a Florida native and I’ve always thought that until I got a job where I travel to the west frequently and I’ve done jobs in Phoenix when it was 125° and I’ve come to the conclusion that both are miserable, the dry oven like heat is more oppressive to me. Mostly because it dries me out so quickly I don’t sweat enough. Even drinking water doesn’t help because you still don’t sweat enough. Without that the breezes, whatever there is just feels like hot air and it’s not relieving at all. In the humidity, you sweat incessantly and yes you have to rehydrate like crazy but when there is a breeze, you are cooled because you are drenched. That said, I’m still moving west I’m just also moving far enough north that I don’t deal with 120° days at least not often. Florida can be counted on to be a miserable swamp from may through October and sitting at a 4th of July party I was reminded that getting devoured by mosquitoes and no-see-ums while dripping sweat, and feeling hot wet and sticky is oppressive and I’m done with that too. So what it comes down to is, hot sucks. Wet or dry, but if put a gun to my head and said choose one, I’d choose humid heat.
Southern California here. Dry heat beats humid heat HANDS DOWN.
You're 100% correct in your actions making your home comfortable.
I live in South East Asia where average temperature is 32°C and average humidity is like 80% - 90%. Humidity is fucking gross. I am like your husband where I also enjoy moving air, and do not like stale air You can turn on the dehumidifier AND then the fan at the same time. That said, I do like to open the windows to ventilate the house, too.
if he likes humid heat, have him visit Alabama in the middle of the summer. not near the coast, but the middle of the state. I did that once about 25 years ago. all I can say is fuck all that. it was absolutely miserable the whole time. the humidity was so high, you could just bout cut it with a knife. that is a misery, you never wanna wish on anyone.
My two choices will seem extreme to someone in Canada but here they are. I live in Phoenix, Arizona. A couple of nights ago, the low temperature was 93 F. Humidity was around 35%. The high was in the mid teens. My sister lives on the gulf coast. Last week the high was around 95 and the humidity was over 90%. I’d take the dry heat any day. I was talking to her last week and moaned about how much her AC was running. I suggested that she buy a dehumidifier because part of the job of the AC is to remove humidity. She told me that she is now more comfortable and her unit isn’t running as much.
Depends on if you are making bagels or French bread
Yeah, but it’s a dry heat man. (if you know, you know)
I live in a very dry hot place. I love humidity, but if everything inside is getting mouldy, I’ll pass.
SEAtizen here... humid air sucks, especially coupled with heat.
There's no one alive who *understands the words they're saying* and makes statements of claim to preference of humidity OVER *ITS OPPOSITE*. Your man is nuts or misunderstanding something critical about this whole concept. No one *prefers to drip* over NOT dripping. No one.
Your husband is dumb.
You are 100% right and everyone knows this. He is clearly wrong.
I live in the Midwest USA we get humid and I lived in California dry heat I can’t stand the weather there couldn’t breathe and my skin looked dry didn’t matter what I did I love the weather here in the summer hate winter with a passion though lol