100 with no humidity is way better than 89 with lots

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Phoenix might have higher temperatures but I’m thinking most of the Southeast experiences worse summer heat than the desert.

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Absolutely. I was there last year and it was 110-115 and still much more bearable.

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I was there last year and it was 110-115

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That is still really hot. It isn't the norm for the temps to be close to 115 EVERY day during the summer. They start sending out heat advisories when it creeps up to that point.

But 100-110 with low humidity...yes...that is more bearable. Especially if you are in the shade. You can instantly feel a temp difference just by stepping into a shaded area.

The heat index in BR last week was at 96... at 10:00 at night!!

I hate feeling wet all the time and every article of clothing is stuck to my skin.

Yup

For sure. My stepson lived in Vegas for 2 years and it gets much hotter there in ambient temperature daily over the summer than here in New Orleans.

However, when he visited a couple times in the summer months, he swore he'd not come back until the spring or fall and all he did was complain how he felt like he was melting when outside.

ETA: just checked Vegas weather and it is now 81 degrees with 16% humidity for a "feels like" temperature of 81 degrees. It will get up to 102 later today.

My dad worked in Nevada for a summer when I was growing up.

The temp would be like 103 with a heat index of 95. It was crazy. That and visibility would be the curvature of the earth.

But man does the Phoenix heat dig into your parked car. They don’t have much shade out there and when it’s 112 your car doesn’t know that it’s dry heat. Can barely breath when you first get in it’s literally like an oven.

People in AZ have had golfball dimples melt away after leaving in their car.

Agreed. I like this kinda heat (but I like hot weather): You don't get that "blast furnace" effect when you go outside, and a break in the shade + a cold shot of water and I'm good. I said in another thread the mornings have been getting MUCH better-far better than in June; which was, IME, the most intense wave this summer (and most summers) because the humidity+heat was suffocating by 8 am.

Summer or winter, humidity is for the birds. Working up north, most days the temps are far colder than anything MS ever has, but the dry cold, when it was dry, wasn't kinda nice. (It's more dangerous if you don't realize it: 2*F will kill you humidity or not.) On other days- many days- the humidity was high, and 2* with high humidity in the air AIN'T FOR ME CHIEF.

I HATE those bitterly cold days where you can almost catch the moisture in a bucket as a true North wind blows it into you. You just can't get seem to get warm on those days, and the same things goes for staying dry in the summer. The only way to describe those days is, "bone-chilling." Hunting in it is great, but working in it will wear your arse out so quick that you'll be cussing unborn orphans. Doing jarring-type work (e.g. pounding a hammer on something) zings a stinger of pain to the extremities that you just get used to, for a little while. Problem in the South is, you can't really acclimate to it because it'll be 68* two days later when the front passes. I don't so much hate cold weather for the cold, I hate it because I can't acclimate to it like I can the heat. If it's gonna be cold, then be cold, dammit.

I guess the hot season description could be, "bone-sizzling"?

I digress, I digress...