there is definately a stifling effect you get a large metro over an open small town or country. Heck could even tell a difference coming home to a suburban area after being downtown. All the asphalt and concrete really soaks up the heat.

Live in NH, took a trip to Flagstaff AZ once. Phoenix was like 110 degrees, and it was so surreal. Like, it was super hot, but not unbearably uncomfortable. We weren't ever out of AC long, hopping between buildings to vehicles etc, but I distinctly remember thinking about how easy it would be to get scary dehydrated. Flagstaff was high 80's, sometimes low 90's and felt fucking amazing. When we got home to high 70's and humidity I felt like I was going to die, it was the worst.

Bit of a tangent, but I find it funny that Americans complain about it being hot when they have AC in most of their buildings, but then mock people complaining about a 40C/105F heatwave with relatively high humidity in countries where AC is anything but standard and sometimes with houses which are designed to keep the heat in during the winter meaning it can easily reach 45C/115F or more inside.

I assume it'll happen again this summer, with the usual Marie Antionette level "let them use AC" comments, not seeming to grasp the environmental and financial cost of AC everywhere.

See, a lot of people are saying variations of this. And that's fine. I agree.

The thing is, it's not at ALL what I usually hear, when this topic comes up.

Usually, it's a bunch of unhinged rambling, about how New York's heat bubble is more effective, or something about the tall buildings funneling the heat through the urban canyons, or something about the air from the subway, etc. Oh, and there's ALWAYS some shit about humidity, as if New York City is somehow more humid than Houston.

It's not. They're both on the fucking water. Humidity is humidity. Water in the air. We get it. NYC doesn't have special water.

EDIT: I mean, maybe not "special water" in a good sense. It's probably got more rat droppings and leftover heroin residue from the 1970s than you'll find in Houston. At least by a little bit.

Yeah. Sure. That's absolutely true. Humidity will indeed make 81 degrees feel like 90 degrees. But there's high humidity in Dallas and Houston and all of Florida, too. So, when it's humid and actually 108...well, then it's not even worth it to calculate how hot it feels. It's just dangerously hot.

Sure, Nevada and Arizona don't have the humidity. But they'll get to 115-120. Humidity REALLY doesn't matter, then.

But I guarantee, there will STILL be New Yorkers coming into this thread, pitching weird ideas about how the buildings still make it seem even hotter than that, somehow.

When a man is tired of Ankh-Morpork, he is tired of ankle-deep slurry.

Eew.

No one thinks this, the meme is meant to criticize people by over exaggerating their claims

They are talking about how humid heat is worse than dry heat. I'll take 100°+ Arizona summer over 85° and 90%+ humidity NY summer any day.

I work in a factory on long Island and am surprised I'm not dead yet from the suffocating humidity+ heat combo we get :/

You don't catch a cold because of temperature shifts.

At most you might be very, very slightly more vulnerable to infection, but the degree of vulnerability between that and normal levels is absurdly small on any real scale.

You caught a cold because viruses like close up contact with poor ventilation and an immune system that hasn't encountered the strain before.

Like, I get it, that's not the real point of what you said, but you could have been naked except for a good mask, and you wouldn't likely have caught the cold, but no amount of clothing without that mask would prevent it.

It makes planning difficult, especially for those who don't know. I started wearing hats to protect against the downdraft of air, and long sleeve shirts that I could take off or put on at will. I've heard Russia is similar in the winter with their water pump heaters being highly efficient indoors but then when you come inside from the outdoors it's jarring. At least as a tourist you got to experience it firsthand so now you know!:-)

You need to go vacations to the usual place uk people go. Last 3 days were 27 and 28. Not fun. Too hot for barely April.