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re: Arizona Heat vs Louisiana Heat
Posted on 6/13/24 at 4:08 pm to SaintlyTiger88
Posted on 6/13/24 at 4:08 pm to SaintlyTiger88
the dry heat makes the sun feel more intense...but that also means you can feel an appreciable difference in temperature in the shade - our super humid days in the gulf south, the air is so soupy you don't feel much of a difference in the shade.
Give me the dry heat any day, when you sweat it does actually cool you off a little bit because of evaporative cooling where as your sweat just sits on you here because the air is too moist for it to quickly evaporate.
Give me the dry heat any day, when you sweat it does actually cool you off a little bit because of evaporative cooling where as your sweat just sits on you here because the air is too moist for it to quickly evaporate.
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Posted on 6/13/24 at 4:09 pm to TexasTiger08
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I prefer the dry heat of Arizona, but I’ve been in Vegas when it hit 115.
Baghdad in the summer of '03. 120 in the shade.
Posted on 6/13/24 at 4:10 pm to SaintlyTiger88
Was just in AZ for an extended period. It kicked the shite out of me at times. Constant water drinking
Posted on 6/13/24 at 4:10 pm to Shexter
Isn’t water in short supply in Arizona?
Louisiana would be my choice.
Louisiana would be my choice.
Posted on 6/13/24 at 4:11 pm to SaintlyTiger88
You feel the heat the same, the only difference is the Az heat doesn't turn you into a wall coated with sweat.
Posted on 6/13/24 at 4:13 pm to dallastiger55
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We were at Disneyworld two weeks ago and it was 98 and 99 in Orlando with humidity. Might be the hottest I've ever been in my life.
Couldn’t imagine doing the theme parks in summer and I love the heat.
This post was edited on 6/13/24 at 4:16 pm
Posted on 6/13/24 at 4:14 pm to SaintlyTiger88
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Just saw on the Weather Channel about a wildfire that broke out in Arizona due to the extreme heat there.
Wait, you mean the air was so hot a fire just started?!
Posted on 6/13/24 at 4:21 pm to SaintlyTiger88
In AZ, you can escape the heat a little in the shade. In LA, you can't escape the humidity
Posted on 6/13/24 at 4:25 pm to Packer
Arizona is definitely worse assuming we are talking the worst part of the summer. 110+ is a fricking oven no matter how “dry” the heat is. It’s rarely in triple digits in Louisiana.
Posted on 6/13/24 at 4:27 pm to SaintlyTiger88
Houston Heat is like Louisiana but without any breeze 
Posted on 6/13/24 at 4:29 pm to SaintlyTiger88
Arizona is still really hot, it will just take you 30 minutes to develop a sweat instead of 15 minutes.
Posted on 6/13/24 at 4:31 pm to northshorebamaman
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I live in AZ and when I visit my mom in the Florida panhandle I feel like I'm going to die.
I guess it also depends on where you are in AZ. It has a pretty diverse climate depending on elevation.
Posted on 6/13/24 at 4:36 pm to SaintlyTiger88
It's wet heat vs dry heat. When I was in the ME it was like a hot blow dryer just going no matter what during the day. Heat index was in the 130s-140s. Look it was hot but Louisiana has that humidity where everything sticks to you and while you don't feel sweat in dry you get a nice dose of swamp arse in Louisiana. I'm getting at while both suck and you feel it. You feel it more in Louisiana because how much more uncomfortable it can get.
Posted on 6/13/24 at 4:37 pm to saderade
quote:Phoenix and Tucson get that hot, and to be fair, that's where most of the population lives, but it's a big state with a lot of areas that don't hit triple digits often. I live down by the Mexican border, and although it's further south, it's usually 10-20 degrees cooler than Phoenix, because we're 4000 feet higher up in elevation. It even snows here.
Arizona is definitely worse assuming we are talking the worst part of the summer. 110+ is a fricking oven no matter how “dry” the heat is. It’s rarely in triple digits in Louisiana.
Posted on 6/13/24 at 4:38 pm to fallguy_1978
Read this right after making my last post. 
This post was edited on 6/13/24 at 4:40 pm
Posted on 6/13/24 at 4:40 pm to Shexter
quote:My son lives in St. Augustine. That place in the summer is miserably hot and humid.
St. Augustine in July is not a joke.
Posted on 6/13/24 at 4:46 pm to SaintlyTiger88
Fried or boiled?
Posted on 6/13/24 at 4:47 pm to SaintlyTiger88
They are both terrible......but I was in Phoenix/Scottsdale a couple of years ago and it was 117 degrees. I've never been any hotter. We stayed at a resort that would shuttle you around in golf carts. When we were moving it felt like a hot blow dryer on your face. It was ridiculous.
Posted on 6/13/24 at 4:47 pm to SaintlyTiger88
At least in dry heat you can escape to shade and be good. You can’t escape humidity. I’ve worked in both and they both suck but I’ll take dry over humid any day.
This post was edited on 6/13/24 at 6:02 pm
Posted on 6/13/24 at 4:53 pm to LSUfan4444
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While AZ may get hotter the mornings and evenings are still cool
When the heat really ramps up, and we are at several weeks straight of 110+ days, the overnight lows in Phoenix push 90 degrees. I would not call that "cool".
This post was edited on 6/13/24 at 5:00 pm
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