[Synopsis]

Originally Posted by colleeng47

I found the summers in Phoenix particularly brutal. Are OK summers similar?

No way. Even though the humidity in Oklahoma is much worse than Phoenix, when it's 118 outside it's still like an oven, you just may not sweat as much. And in Phoenix it DOES get up to 118 on a regular basis, whereas Oklahoma generally doesn't rise above 100 to many times.

[TheComputerGuy]

I'll be trading COLD Winters for cool Summers, but the older I get, the colder I get,
so I guess it will be a trade-off...

[TheComputerGuy]

Originally Posted by bjb123

There ya go CG! Glad you're doing better.

Thanks on both counts!

[Mattie Jo]

Originally Posted by Synopsis

Nope, you trade one for the other. I guess the only other choice would be to live in San Diego, where the weather is nice but kind of boring. As far as "temperate" weather in the US. I think a place like Albuquerque has some of the nicest weather; it never really gets too hot or too cold.

Somebody rep CG he's almost at a 100!

Oh, now come on, no one but medical doctors and lawyers can afford to live in San Diego. LOL. Well, I did but I had to live in a trailer park, and even then $600 to $800 a month for a space to park my trailer was a bit too much. I can't see Computer Guy living there. And the people are nothing like us Okies. You won't find a lot of friendlies, but they are still pretty nice. And yes, the weather there is so boring. I had to move inland to get a little more weather, and yet the marine layer followed me. I wanted sunshine, not a marine layer. I wanted a real summer but they never had one. I wanted trees that changed color and lost their leaves, but they were hard to find. I wanted a real winter, but they didn't have one. This part of OK is just perfect where I live. We don't get the heavier snows of Tulsa, which really aren't much, but we get just the right amount, but to hear me complain it doesn't last long enough, so maybe Tulsa and area are better. The summers are warm, but they are bearable, not like MS or the panhandle of FL--places where I have lived, places where I hated the summers. I don't hate them here, but sometimes I realize that I prefer the drier summers of Paso Robles where I grew up. But Paso didn't have the snow that we get.

[Goodpasture]

Originally Posted by Synopsis

.......... the humidity in Oklahoma is much worse than Phoenix...............

Actually there is a noticeable trend, observed by climatologists, that the number of swimming pools has caused the Phoenix's humidity to rise to unprecedented levels. I cannot imagine a 118 degree day with 90% humidity. I take that back, I CAN imagine it. The pastor of the church I used to go to described my destination as being something similar.

[peggydavis]

It's probably lower in temperature but higher in humidity in OK.

[karibear]

Originally Posted by Synopsis

No way. Even though the humidity in Oklahoma is much worse than Phoenix, when it's 118 outside it's still like an oven, you just may not sweat as much. And in Phoenix it DOES get up to 118 on a regular basis, whereas Oklahoma generally doesn't rise above 100 to many times.

100 degrees is one thing, 100 degrees with humidity in the high 90s is something else again. That's what summers in St Louis were like when I was a kid. The last summer I spent there, 1966, there was a World Series in the old Busch Stadium - it got up to 130 in the infield, and over 300 people in the stands were hospitalized with heat stroke. Not my cuppa tea, even if I did grow up there.

[mkfarnam]

Originally Posted by Goodpasture

Actually there is a noticeable trend, observed by climatologists, that the number of swimming pools has caused the Phoenix's humidity to rise to unprecedented levels. I cannot imagine a 118 degree day with 90% humidity. I take that back, I CAN imagine it. The pastor of the church I used to go to described my destination as being something similar.

Soouth of Houston is one place where the humidity is unbearible. To me anyway.
I lived there for awhile as a teen in the early 70's and couldn't stand it. I could hardly breath. That's when I moved to Ca.
I rode a freight train from St Luis, to Sa Diego.

[Synopsis]

Yeah, Houston is a fine city but that climate is not to my liking. It's bad enough in DFW but the humidity down there is stifling to me. It's 77 degrees here in DFW today and the humidity is at 31 percent and it feels yucky. I can only imagine being in Houston with 92 degrees and 70 percent humidity in the summer; horrible. It was 84 or 85 here in DFW this last Summer - it was after a rain and the humidity was horrible. I was trying to work outside and kept having to come in and towel off because of the unbearable humidity. I've worked in 100 degree heat with low humidity and it didn't bother me near as much.

[Synopsis]

Compare the 31% humidity with Houston's current, which is at 74%. It has to feel miserable there right now.

HOUSTON, TX
76 °F / 24 °C
Overcast
Humidity: 74%