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In reply to the discussion: I wanted to start visible a thread about ways to cope with the extreme heat [View all]emmadoggy
(2,142 posts)Humidity makes the heat WAAAYYYYY worse and much more intolerable. It is amazing to me how much better I can handle hot temps if the dew point is low (not often here in Iowa!). But if the dew point is high, even 75 degrees can feel yucky, and 90 or 95 is just flat out misery. Hard to breath, headaches, easy exhaustion. I avoid being outside like the plague!
You simply cannot cool off because your sweat doesn't evaporate. And you feel wet and slimy and stinky all the time. Hair goes either completely limp, wavy or frizzy depending in your hair type. I HATE humidity. I live in the wrong state.
I visited San Francisco a few year ago - in May. It was actually slightly cooler there than it was back home in Iowa at that time. I loved the climate there. Dry. Few bugs (it seemed to me). Definitely cool, occasionally chilly. But I could definitely deal with the year-round moderate temps. Anything between 50 and 80 and I'm pretty happy. Unfortunately, here in Iowa during the course of a year, our temps can range from -30 to 105 in the extreme. -20 to 98 is pretty typical in any given year.
We've already had a string of 90 degree days, and the forecast is for the next 7 days to be 90-95 every day. HUMID, of course. And only a few slight chances for rain and we are terribly dry right now. And it's only the end of JUNE. July is usually the worst. UGH.