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Sounds like Miami, every day I look at the temperature and it's like 82-90, feels like 100. Literally every day since like late May/early June, the weather report says "oppressive humidity, extreme caution" since it hangs around 70-85% with a dew point in the mid 70s. This isnt event record breaking either. Whenever the humidity drops down to like 60% and the temp is in the low 80s I'm like "it's actually cool out for once" even though the real feel is like 92.
It's been cloudy and rainy for like the past two weeks, so at least the pool is back to a cool/comfortable temperature and not like bathwater every day.
As awful as Phoenix heat is, it has nothing on the humidity factor of Florida, or even the DC metro.
The worst thing about Phoenix heat, is that because land was so cheap, it is quite literally just a gigantic sprawling paved suburban hellscape.
Aside from the aesthetics, there's so much pavement that it doesn't cool down at night much at all. It just retains all that heat, right up until the sun comes up the next day.
The moment you step foot outside in Florida, you are commiting to taking a shower once you're back inside. It could be for 2 minutes. You are now a sweaty hog. Your underwear is soaked and anything else you're wearing is moist. You also brought at least one mosquito in with you which won't reveal itself until you go to bed.
Facts. I take between 2 and 4 showers a day (most are just to wash the dried sweat off, no soap necessary unless I reek).
I'm originally from South Jersey where it gets humid as fuck for about two months out of the year with the occasional reprieve, so I'm used to it being hot as fuck. Before I moved down here, my friend and I spent 2 weeks down here in South Florida in August to see if I could stand it at its worst. I lasted a day wearing my typical summer clothes (khaki shorts and a cotton T-shirt, I'm a dude). The rest of the time was spent freeballing in basketball shorts and three tank tops that I bought and was still drenched every day.
I've been down here since October and freeballing in basketball shorts (or linen shorts) and wearing mesh or linen shirts are the only things I wear outside between May and October. Two days ago I went outside for a 10 minute walk and was drenched within a few minutes. Yesterday I went out for a long walk and before I went out I soaked a mesh T-shirt in cold water to see if it would help keep me cool. It didn't.