Welcome to Nonsoon season!! (Phoenix, Scottsdale: construction, car, business)

[wase4711]

it was 94 with 78% humidity in Chicago yesterday. Now that's WET heat!

[ElleTea]

22% is a dry heat. My old home town in the Midwest is currently 87% with a dew point of 80 which is what a grew up with. It's dry here

[sargeant79]

Originally Posted by wase4711

it was 94 with 78% humidity in Chicago yesterday. Now that's WET heat!

Man... I remember those hot and humid days. I'd much rather have 112 with 22% humidity than that ^^^.

[New Horizons]

I've only lived in Phoenix for 3 years. 2 of them I was driving a truck so I was gone most of the time. I didn't realize how hot it can get, coupled with high(er) dew points. 114 degrees is fine with single digit humidity, not this 20% business. I know, I'm spoiled on the good weather out here.

Then I look at the weather in Las Vegas, they're consistently drier than PHX, but even LA was was dry yesterday, 11% humidity! The beaches are packed with people.

Eventually I'll buy a small motorhome, and I'll be taking it to the mountains or coast this time of the year.

[Prickly Pear]

[Renegade007]

Originally Posted by sargeant79

Man... I remember those hot and humid days. I'd much rather have 112 with 22% humidity than that ^^^.

I would say 75% of Phoenicians would not be able to handle Chicago style heat. Or Gulf Coast heat where it's 85 degrees and 85 percent humidity. Now that is truly the definition of miserable. It's a whole different animal than 115 degrees and 10 percent humidity. Give me the 115 degrees and 10%. Eight days a week.

[wase4711]

Originally Posted by sargeant79

Man... I remember those hot and humid days. I'd much rather have 112 with 22% humidity than that ^^^.

that's what I am hoping too, when we move out there in April...

[Renegade007]

Originally Posted by kell490

What happened to the dry heat??
112F 22% Humidity right now

That *IS* dry heat!

[Valley Native]

Originally Posted by magnum0417

0.36 inch at Sky Harbor today bringing the season's total to 0.37 inches . Talk to me when Sky Harbor records 3 plus inches which is typical for the season start to finish.Not even close to average and Lake Roosevelt is at 44% water capacity and dropping.

Actually, ScottsdaleMark is correct about 2.71 inches being the average monsoon rainfall total in Phoenix. The 3 plus inches of rain is more normal for the winter season (December through March) ... however, you wouldn't know it based on the past several winters. When the new 30 year averages are configured sometime in the first part of the next decade, the winter rainfall averages will likely be decreased unless we get some good heavy winter rains in the next few years prior to 2021.

The reduced water capacity at the lakes can be blamed mostly on the lack of snowpack, not the lack of a summer monsoon this year. Remember how the so called weather experts were promising how El Niño would bring us a very wet winter? Never happened. In fact, it was so warm & dry later in the winter that any snow that fell in the mountains during December & January was gone by February & March. Rivers, lakes, and reservoirs depend mostly on winter precipitation. The summer monsoon has very little effect on their capacity, except in the rare case of a tropical type of storm like during September, 2014.

[kell490]

I went to Miami and Fort Lauderdale in August 2010 I spent all day outside no way that is worse then Phoenix when it's 112 25% humidity. The sun is way more intense here and it cooled off at night in Florida while it was humid in the 80's is nothing. I think most of you midwest transplants never spend more then a few minutes outside of your AC. I worked outside all day yesterday and today it was rough.