When is the most humid time of the year?

[golfgal]

If you look up the weather data for MN, it's pretty consistant across the board for average humidity for each month-between 55-65% on average, with December having the highest monthly average for humidity during the daytime hours of 71%. January is second at 68%.

It feels worse in July and August because the average temperature is higher and dewpoint, humidity and temperature are all related.

[kurls]

I believe the OP is asking about humidity in the sense of dew point. High dew points with high temps make it feel sticky and tropical which is the Florida like feeling she is likely referring to. I moved here from Colorado which is quite dry with low dew points. In the Summer I frequently remember having highs above 90 (but they felt good) and nighttime lows in the upper 50's and 60's. Compared to that, yes Minnesota can feel "humid" at times in the summer although from my experiences here it seems that these periods of high temps/high dew points (above the 60 degree dp range) seem to last at most a few days at a time before having some relief from drier northern air. Compared to Georgia (where I have been a few Summers) I would say Minnesota's relative humidity is much more tolerable and doesn't stay sticky.

[Ben Around]

Having lived in FL for several years, I can assure you that Florida-like humidity happens here in the TC maybe 6 or 8 days in an average year. Yes, the average summer day here is more humid than in the West, but Mpls is the least humid city in the Midwest. We run our AC very infrequently in the summer.

[Min-Chi-Cbus]

Originally Posted by Ben Around

Having lived in FL for several years, I can assure you that Florida-like humidity happens here in the TC maybe 6 or 8 days in an average year. Yes, the average summer day here is more humid than in the West, but Mpls is the least humid city in the Midwest. We run our AC very infrequently in the summer.

I'm not sure it's the least humid in the Midwest....I think you could say it has the fewest # of days with dew points under 55-60 for large cities in the Midwest, but dewpoints can and do seem to get higher in the Twin Cities than many Midwestern metros, incl. Milwaukee, Cleveland, Detroit and possibly Omaha and KC (KC might be worse....it's close to the borderline between humid and dry regions). Every year I check the dewpoint maps on weather.com in the summer and the areas of darker green almost always consistently swell well up North through the Plains into Canada but don't do the same East of Chicago. Again, since we're further North I think the number of "humid" (dp's over 55-60) days here may be indeed fewer, but the number of "extremely humid (dp's over 70) days MAY be as high or higher here than much of the Midwest (I assume STL, Cincy, Indy and maybe C-bus might be more severe -- I've lived in STL and C-bus, and they are definitely sticky a lot of the year!).

[Beenhere4ever]

Dewpoint over 60 in MN is uncomfortable. 60 and below are tolerable. Personally I like low dewpoints. The body cooling system works well in that scenario. Skin doesn't like it much, I admit. But there are countermeasures for that.