Heat Vs. Humidity (Re: whining rights)

[Milz]

Should have clarified the heat wave comment.

Having lived in the Mid-West and the southerly Mid-Atlantic, I can say 
there is a difference between Mid-Western "hot" and Mid-Atlantic 
"hot". That difference is humidity.

When I lived in Iowa, the summers weren't as humid as Virginia. The 
heat was more of a dry, sun-beating-on-your-back type "hot". That kind 
of heat is tolerable because your sweat evaporates on your skin and 
cools you. I remember we had a week or so of 100-101 degree 
temps and it wasn't that bad. 

However in the southern Mid-Atlantic area, the heat is a humid, sticky 
"hot". Your sweat doesn't evaporate as much and you're left with a 
sticky, yucky clammy feeling on your skin. The air is thick and heavy 
from the humidity and that weight is noticeable when you breathe. Here 
in the Virginia-Maryland area, greater than 90% humidity is common 
during the summer months. So the air temperature might be 97 degrees, 
but factor in the humidity and it not only feels like 102 degrees but 
it's humid too.

But even humidity is a relative thing. One of our neighbors in Iowa 
was from Idaho.  He used to complain that the humidity in Iowa was 
oppressive as compared to Idaho. On the television news last night, 
they interviewed a local university football coach. He said that the 
heat and humidity was nothing compared to what he was used to in 
Georgia.

Now who gets the whining rights to cold weather? 

Milz