In honor of heat wave coming in, here's my take on hottest part of US

I've been all over the US in summer months, it's hot everywhere across the South but this part is the worst of the worst. Draw a triangle from Houston to Shreveport to Lake Charles. That's the absolute worst. Probably Lufkin being the epicenter of hell. Fort Polk too. Absolute temps get higher across South US as you move West. However, there's a zone that capture absolute hell over triple digit temps, AND has the extreme humidity. That triangle is the epicenter of where it mixes to be the worst. And when I say worst, I mean if you average heat indexes, maybe like 3 to 4 degrees hotter than a Jackson, MS, and 5 to 7 degrees hotter than an Atlanta. Just my experience.

The most bizarre thing about Houston is that dozens of times I'd look at weather app when I was in Houston, and it was 104 in 2023 Summer with 40% humidity. Galveston, was 89. Houston was just inland enough to not get the huge lowering of temps like Galveston gets.