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It's all about what you're acclimated to. I've lived with 105 and dry in west Texas AND 90 and swampy in Oklahoma and I'll take the former. When the dew point hits about 70 degrees, you can sweat and sweat and sweat and sweat and none of it matters because it will almost never evaporate off of you. And 70 is baby humidity. We had a few days last summer where the dew point came up just short of 80. Which can make a 100 degree day yield a heat index of 125+.

And all that humidity really saps your AC's cooling potential. It spends most of its energy pulling moisture from the air instead of actually making the air cool enough to be much use. It'll be 80 degrees and swampy inside your house too, especially if it's older construction. Nobody ever mentions this when talking about dry heat vs wet heat. If you can keep your indoor dew point below 60, you're doing alright.

I'll take this over Florida or Houston. We start to get some real relief by Labor Day and it's usually gone entirely by Halloween.

Just agree with them and say NYC sucks

In the south, you’re probably driving around in an air conditioned vehicle, sitting in an air conditioned house, visiting an air conditioned business. You’re spending as little time outside as possible. In NYC, you’re walking all over the fucking place, waiting for a subway car, standing on a platform surrounded by 50 other people, climbing three flights of stairs to get out of the subway station and on to the street where you still need to walk 5 blocks to get where you’re going.

Humidity changing temperature feel?

Tbf if it reflects off of concrete/asphalt its worse but america has big cities in the south too so that doesnt work.

It isn't the heat so much as the stench.

I mean if they seriously think it's hotter than somewhere with warmer climate that is also experiencing heatwave then yeah they're stupid, but for someone in colder climate, that's hot.

It's relative.

As an overseas tourist, the worst part was how air conditioning was so overused it turned every inside space into a refrigerator. I once almost fainted while boarding a subway because the station was like over 30C and the car was like 16C. Such extreme and sudden temperature were super stressful on the body. I always dressed in shorts and a tshirt and carried a scarf and sweater but still caught a cold very quickly.

NYC Weather:

Winter- Smells like cold piss

Spring- Smells like piss

Summer- Smells like hot piss

Fall- Smells like piss and pumpkin spice

A someone familiar with both... Yeah they're 100% correct.

It's all relative ;P

I was skeptical at first, but "Pepe via solstice" DOES sound like it would be very uncomfortable..

Ey. We gotta have something to complain about, if nothing else.

Keep cool during the day, live it up at night. Nothing like summer in the city.

I wanted to say something to the effect of "me when I hate on a place with good bagels" or something like that, because I only know like two or three things consistently about new york, but it does pass the smell test for me over most other US cities because it has good urbanism. Maybe not the smell test in terms of like, the city's ability to consistently manage it's own utilities, but that's a bonus I think, if it ends up cutting down on housing prices.

At the same time, after looking it up, I feel completely scammed. Temperature high is 95, low is like fucking 27, in new york. Where I live, temperature high is 115 and temperature low is -10. What the hell? Why the fuck do I live in this shithole? Looking at the temperature averages it's more even between the two, but then if you look at temperature graphs or variations, seems like new york has really very consistent weather and where I live has not very consistent weather.

I dunno, weather is dumb. We should all live in big judge dredd style superblocks or something, with air conditioning, that'd probably be better.