Brutal heat and humidity lately

[Marrk]

In town to visit wife in Phoenix I've been here few times in July why probably because I'm a idiot. Born raised in Wisconsin all my life sure we get hot and humid but no feeling ever what you experience in middle of July in Phoenix and the issue it is relentless. In Wisconsin yea you get a week of heat and say ohh look we have a overnight low of 65F in 2 days never in Phoenix summer.
I'm usually up at 4am yep get your bike rides in walks before 10am most hikes will shut down at 10am usually pulling people out overcome by heat usually some hero from out of town not heat adapted.
I'll take a summer in Wisconsin any time compreed to a summer in Phoenix why live in Phoenix because winters are amazing and that's a thread for another debate.
This is never Wisconsin ever and you can repeat this for another 30days.

Phoenix has a tiny little problem with water. The entire southwest is fighting over the Colorado River at the moment. Arizona could work if you learn some good Navaho rain dances.

 

[AZjeff]

Phoenix is sitting at 25% humidity today. Right now in central WI it's 63%, the OP is sitting at 80%. Not really a fair comparison.

They feel different, both brutal. 117 and low humidity is just crazy HOT, 93 and 71% is suffocating and sticky damp hot.

 

[fdcg27]

We had similar conditions here a couple of weeks ago.
Heat above 90F combined with dew points above sixty is brutal, especially when it continues for an entire week plus.
I can't imagine trying to sleep without AC.
Over 110F even with bone dry air seems like another world of misery.
The hottest I've ever seen here was 104F and that was with blessedly low humidity, but still very warm

 

[Legs4Arms]

71% humidity...holy #$%!
I can't imagine what that must feel like at 100F

 

[JeffKeryk]

I think we got to 85* today, we don't have much in the way of humidity. You guys are bulletproof!

 

[BobsArmory]

I dislike "feels like temps" that the local news always talks about. Just give me the temp and humidity and I can figure it out myself. A while back I was in PHX @110F talking with a niece of mine outside in the shade having dinner one evening and we were perfectily comphy. There were misters above us. That would have never worked in Florida. ;-)

 

[The_Eric]

It's 9:00 and about as sticky as ever...

The dew point went up to 84⁰ earlier but is back down to a much more livable 82⁰

 

[The_Eric]

71% humidity...holy #$%!
I can't imagine what that must feel like at 100F

We may get a chance to find out soon enough - tomorrow is supposed to be hotter yet!

 

[edyvw]

Drove through Phoenix yesterday afternoon, vehicle was showing 118 degrees--- assuming the temperature over the blacktopped interstate might run a tad bit higher than the temperature at an official weather station.

In 2013 during heat wave, drove from Charlottesville, VA to San Diego, CA. Bought Tiguan we still have in VA. Went through Phoenix and it was showing 127 on cluster on I-8 just outside of Phoenix towards Yuma. It was insanely hot. Let’s say sensor was lying a bit, but still….

 

[edyvw]

71% humidity...holy #$%!
I can't imagine what that must feel like at 100F

I lived in Montgomery, AL for 8yrs. In August in the morning humidity can achieve 100% of saturation (relative humidity) while during the day drops to like 90-95% and temperatures go to 95-105, depends. When you landing on the airport, you can see like white fog over the city as it is in some valley.
And I was coaching tennis at university there in the beginning, and practice would go 1.00pm to 3.30pm. After that, you go to some, any room and you sit on ventilation opening We had a trailer (didn’t have real offices) and ventilation openings were in the floor. You take a chair, put over vent, and you cool off

 

[edyvw]

Just to add, after 4yrs, I moved to old house built in 1929, in this part of town in Montgomery called Cloverdale. It had wooden porch behind, uncovered. I don’t know how many times I almost fell, because porch was drenched in water, like it was pouring with rain night before. You sit in the car and first thing is to turn on wipers.

 

[CKN]

Last week's vacation to Wyoming was shocking, temperature-wise. I lived there from 1978 to 1995 and don't remember seeing temperatures top 100. Topping 90 was a feat seldom seen. Weirdly enough, it was 5° hotter in Wyoming than it was in Texas the day I landed, and the next day as well. There's lots of open pasture within Gillette city limits, and they're so dry and "golden brown" that one misplaced cigarette butt may send the town up in blazes quickly. I think everyone's being very careful for fear that they may lose their own home through any measure of carelessness.

As I mentioned on another post-the wife and I towed our travel trailer though Nevada, California, Oregon and Idaho. It was 1,700 miles over three weeks. It actually pour down rain in Elko, then after that it was pretty much blast furnace most of the trip. We did have some good times, but the heat prevented some activities. We did get a respite while up in Lake Tahoe and Crater Lake.
The air conditioning in the travel trailer did work well and kept us comfortable.
Salt Lake City the next 7 days is in for 100 degrees and beyond.

 

[I<3oil]

We have been in the typical 90's and hit 100 once in the past two weeks. I am staying mostly inside. Humidity isn't too bad and I have seen worse in this part of Kansas in the past (20 consecutive days over 100 in the 1980's).

Humidity wasn't too bad?!?!? Bruh, 90-95 feels like 117-120* is pretty freaking bad. (lives in Topeka)

 

[loneryder]

Phoenix is sitting at 25% humidity today. Right now in central WI it's 63%, the OP is sitting at 80%. Not really a fair comparison.

OP: this summer has been especially brutal, especially for those like me that work in shops/outside without air conditioning. When the humidity gets this high, your body's ability to cool itself via sweat is greatly diminished and it can be dangerously easy to overheat.

Stay safe everyone!

But they always tell you it’s a dry heat in Az. The heat in your oven is dry also.

 

[edyvw]

But they always tell you it’s a dry heat in Az. The heat in your oven is dry also.

I would say it is unfair to compare the same temperatures. 95 degrees in Alabama is exhausting, but 95 degrees in Las Vegas is not, or here in Colorado Springs.
However, if you compare the hottest days in Alabama and Arizona, it is equally exhausting, just different. The hottest day in Alabama I ever witnessed was 101, and it was brutal. The hottest day I witnessed in AZ showed, as I said before, 127 degrees, but let's say, for real, it was 118. It was equally brutal, just different. You need a higher temperature in dry heat to be as exhausting as humidity.

 

[Snagglefoot]

I enjoy reading about Phoenix and love the winters there. The temps are currently above 110 F but it was 2023 when the record for continuous days above 110 F was set. It was 31 days.

 

[Lubener]

I salute you in going even a 20 mile bike ride with temps in the mid 90's and such high dew points. My bike would be in the garage with those conditions.

Iowa being in the heart of the corn belt, I was surprised when I read how much the corn crop contributes to the humidity in the air.