Does northern Ohio get muggy? (Cleveland, Nashville: motel, house, living in)

[AtlantaAnonymous]

If so, how often? Hopefully less than the Appalachians here in Georgia.

[WRnative]

Originally Posted by AtlantaAnonymous

If so, how often? Hopefully less than the Appalachians here in Georgia.

See humidity here:

https://weatherspark.com/y/18154/Ave...tes-Year-Round

You can check other cities in northern Ohio as well. I suspect there isn't much difference, but I've never looked.

You also can check Atlanta or any other U.S. city for a comparison.

[Christinepurple]

Yes, it gets extremely muggy in N. OH in the Summer. AC used all the time! Fall is more pleasant muggy-wise but then the rains start too. Lots of seasonal changes.

[WRnative]

Originally Posted by Christinepurple

Yes, it gets extremely muggy in N. OH in the Summer. AC used all the time! Fall is more pleasant muggy-wise but then the rains start too. Lots of seasonal changes.

As documented at weatherspark.com, Cleveland has very little of the oppressive humidity found in cities further south. A/C generally is a personal preference. Except for perhaps only two weeks a summer, I often use fans instead of A/C, and those with a whole house fan can avoid using A/C much of the time. On more humid days, I might run the A/C four hours to reduce indoor humidity after using fans at night to cool the house during periods of high humidity. Often use the furnace fan without A/C to rebalance the heat, especially to cool parts of the house baking under the late day sun.

[bjimmy24]

Late August this year was pretty miserably muggy. Much better now.

[mshultz]

Here's some stats from The Weather Almanac, 2nd ed. (1977):
City July min. T July max. T July Humidity @ 1300 hours
Cleveland OH 61.2 81.6 57%
Asheville NC 62.6 84.3 65%
Atlanta GA 69.4 86.5 64%
Wichita KS 69.6 91.7 49% @ 1200, 45% @ 1800

So yes, northeast Ohio is less muggy than the Appalachians, but still quite muggy in my opinion. On those occasions when my A/C has been broken, the house is uncomfortably muggy even if the internal temperature is cool. You have to go west well into Kansas before you start to get a break from the humidity. I visited Hays, Kansas in June 2012. Granted it was during a drought & heatwave, but I could walk through the park behind the motel first thing in the morning without getting my shoes wet.

[KY_Transplant]

This August was incredibly Muggy, on par with other places I have lived much further south such as Nashville, TN.

Usually, it is not an oppressive humidity like one finds in the South, but it does indeed get very muggy in much of Ohio, including Northern Ohio. Thankfully, it is usually only oppressive in late July through August.

[JWilliams45]

Some may find the dew point to be a useful guide to how comfortable they'll be on a warm, humid day. My measures are:

60 = Humid
65 = My Comfort Limit (when the sun is out)
70 = This is Muggy
75 = This is VERY Humid (at night, this feels okay; in full sun, I need to find some dry, cool air)

Different people will react differently to dew points. When I was 25, living in Little Rock, and running 50 miles per week, I never experienced high dew points being particularly uncomfortable. Fifty years later, I don't enjoy dew points above 65 until the sun is about to go down.