The temperature in Phoenix reached 100°F for a record 100th straight day. The previous record was 76 straight days, set in 1993.
  • pete_the_cat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    3 months ago

    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.

    • pandapoo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      12·
      3 months ago

      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.

      • pete_the_cat@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        Yeah, it’s just blazing hot there but at least when the sun goes away you get some relief, the humidity sticks around even at night haha I’m originally from South Jersey where the humidity is just as bad for about 2 months out of the year, so I’m used to it, but at least there’s the occasional reprieve up there. Here, it’s just relentlessly humid. At least I live right next to Biscayne Bay and there’s always a 10-20 mph breeze, so it’s not just still humidity like it is back home in NJ. Both places are essentially built on swamps. If you look at a map of South Florida it’s literally just the east and west coast that are populated (spanning maybe 20-30 miles inland) with the entire center taken up by the Everglades.

        I live in a new apartment building and I forgot to turn on my AC last night (thanks Ambien!), when I woke up it was 74 in my apartment but 70% humidity 🥵 I’ve never seen it below 50% in here, even in January or February when the temp drops down to the 70s. I’ve had my dehumidifier running for about 1.5 hours and it’s 57% in here now. It’s 12:30 PM right now and it’s 70% RH with a 76 degree dew point and a temp of 88F, feels like 100F.