I mean if they seriously think it's hotter than somewhere with warmer climate that is also experiencing heatwave then yeah they're stupid, but for someone in colder climate, that's hot.
It's relative.
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It's all relative ;P
As an overseas tourist, the worst part was how air conditioning was so overused it turned every inside space into a refrigerator. I once almost fainted while boarding a subway because the station was like over 30C and the car was like 16C. Such extreme and sudden temperature were super stressful on the body. I always dressed in shorts and a tshirt and carried a scarf and sweater but still caught a cold very quickly.
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Tbf if it reflects off of concrete/asphalt its worse but america has big cities in the south too so that doesnt work.
Exactly.
A someone familiar with both... Yeah they're 100% correct.
Humidity changing temperature feel?
Yeah. Sure. That's absolutely true. Humidity will indeed make 81 degrees feel like 90 degrees. But there's high humidity in Dallas and Houston and all of Florida, too. So, when it's humid and actually 108...well, then it's not even worth it to calculate how hot it feels. It's just dangerously hot.
Sure, Nevada and Arizona don't have the humidity. But they'll get to 115-120. Humidity REALLY doesn't matter, then.
But I guarantee, there will STILL be New Yorkers coming into this thread, pitching weird ideas about how the buildings still make it seem even hotter than that, somehow.
I mean the heat island effect is real.
But as someone who lives in NYC but grew up in the south: It's not hotter in NYC.
We just are actually outside, unlike all southerners who don't do manual labor. Rain or shine, freeze or burn, NYC is in the 100 year old unventilated subway tunnels with trains venting the heat from their ACs in the summer.
It's not actually hotter.
But if you come to visit in August you'll sweat more in NYC than August in Dallas.
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I'm a Canadian who hates all temperatures above 60, and I'll tell you that humidity always matters. I had the luxury of traveling to Phoenix in July, and that was still more tolerable than anywhere that was 20 degrees cooler but 100% more humid. Heat isn't so bad when sweating still works.
Okay, then maybe the hot and dry areas in the West aren't as bad, as long as you have enough water. But in Texas and Florida, it regularly goes up above 105 and it's 100 percent humidity, for long stretches of time. Basically 100 percent of the time, in Florida (and a lot of the Gulf Coast, in general).
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