I am currently in North Carolina and while I will acknowledge it is hot, and the humidity doesn’t help, it isn’t particularly irritating. It’s like a hug from the air. I’ve been to New Orleans at the end of summer when it’s supposedly bad but I enjoyed it. It almost makes the heat a little bit more bearable because there is something to work with?
Here’s a weird one. If I get in my car and it’s hot I will sometimes just sit there and stew in it for a couple of minutes.
This is so much worse than OP.
Thawing.
It feels like a Sauna… and I LOVE it lol. Of course I don’t have to work outside in it all day long and it does suck to cut the grass in the middle of the day. But still I enjoy that wave of heat/humidity mixed with a slight ocean breeze when I step outside in the summer time
Florida checking in: it’s good for your skin! I don’t like getting sweaty in the 10seconds it takes to walk to my truck, but i prefer it over everything else.
Do you get sunburns in Florida, or does the sweaty humidity prevent it?
Can confirm humidity doesn’t help. Salt water drying on your skin can also make it worse, just a fun fact, so rinse off as often as you can when leaving the water to help prevent it.
Also these people are insane. I’ll take a dry heat over humidity I can’t hardly breathe through any day. Sweat exists for a reason, humidity won’t let you benefit from it.
I’m with you OP. I live in New England which admittedly doesn’t have terrible humidity but whenever I go to Vegas there’s always some local that that latches on to a humidity argument. We get to talking about how hot Vegas is vs New England and they without fail always say “oh but you have to deal with all that humidity, we’ve got a nice dry heat.” It’s like they don’t understand how fucking insane that sounds, 115F does not feel better that 60-80% humidity at 80F unless you’re a damn lizard.
I will take hot, wet weather over any sort of dry heat, anytime. Another Florida native here, and I am convinced all the water in the air is good for your skin. Went to Utah and felt like one of those dry apples. And my nose bled from the dry air!
I agree, humidity is good. Rain is even better.