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Old 06-16-2023, 12:53 AM
 
Location: Austin Metroplex, SF Bay Area
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Not all days in Houston are humid especially when temps get over 100 F and between October and April we hav many dry heat days.
Well yeah. When oppressive heat and humidity is mentioned, it's in reference to summer months.
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Old 06-16-2023, 02:40 AM
 
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Default Austin. San Antonio And Dallas are also Humid

Austin is a little less humid but it is still quite humid. Same with Dallas and San Antonio. BTW Hong Kong, Singapore, Jakarta, Dubai, Mumbai, Manilla and many other of the largest Cities are more humid than Houston. The humidity doesn't stop them from growing and prospering
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Old 06-16-2023, 09:16 AM
 
Location: Houston, TX
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Austin is a little less humid but it is still quite humid. Same with Dallas and San Antonio. BTW Hong Kong, Singapore, Jakarta, Dubai, Mumbai, Manilla and many other of the largest Cities are more humid than Houston. The humidity doesn't stop them from growing and prospering
Good point here. Of course Houston's humidity is oppressive at times, but I don't notice an appreciable difference between humidity here vs. Austin or Dallas.

Dallas homers in particular love to say "our RH is 10% lower than Houston, etc." And that may be true but it's hard to actually feel that difference. IMO, real dry heat is rare east of Abilene.
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Old 06-16-2023, 01:33 PM
 
Location: Austin Metroplex, SF Bay Area
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Austin is a little less humid but it is still quite humid. Same with Dallas and San Antonio. BTW Hong Kong, Singapore, Jakarta, Dubai, Mumbai, Manilla and many other of the largest Cities are more humid than Houston. The humidity doesn't stop them from growing and prospering
I think most Austinites would disagree with you. When I first got to Austin and made a comment about humidity, the standard across-the-board comment which played like a broken record was...."if you want to feel real humidity, go to Houston".

We're having a tough one today, but Austin temp/feels like shade/feels like sun is 95/102/108, Houston is 94/105/115. So yeah, that's a noticeable difference. And again, I don't believe anyone would be out in weather like this.
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Old 06-16-2023, 02:07 PM
 
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I think most Austinites would disagree with you. When I first got to Austin and made a comment about humidity, the standard across-the-board comment which played like a broken record was...."if you want to feel real humidity, go to Houston".

We're having a tough one today, but Austin temp/feels like shade/feels like sun is 95/102/108, Houston is 94/105/115. So yeah, that's a noticeable difference. And again, I don't believe anyone would be out in weather like this.
Meh, I lived in Austin in 2010-2011 when all of the cities were going through a multi-year heat wave and it didn't feel much different than Houston. Most days were quite humid with some being less so.

The big Texas cities all have high levels of oppressive heat/humidity, to pretend otherwise is just trying to split hairs. What we're seeing right now though is quite abnormal, even for here.
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Old 06-16-2023, 02:15 PM
 
Location: Sugar Land, Texas
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Amarillo is much cooler.
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Old 06-16-2023, 02:16 PM
 
Location: Austin Metroplex, SF Bay Area
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Meh, I lived in Austin in 2010-2011 when all of the cities were going through a multi-year heat wave and it didn't feel much different than Houston. Most days were quite humid with some being less so.

The big Texas cities all have high levels of oppressive heat/humidity, to pretend otherwise is just trying to split hairs. What we're seeing right now though is quite abnormal, even for here.
Nope, Houston is definitely worse and it's not like splitting hairs at all. There's a clear winner (loser).
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Old 06-16-2023, 02:20 PM
 
Location: Sugar Land, Texas
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Austin is less humid than Houston? During what months?
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Old 06-16-2023, 02:23 PM
 
Location: Austin Metroplex, SF Bay Area
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Austin is less humid than Houston? During what months?
Uh, all you have to do is look at the weather reports (current and historical... and I just gave you the current above). It's not even subjective as the reports will give the exact temperature and "feels like" temperature.

https://www.currentresults.com/Weath...61%20to%201990.

Just one of many links. Austin doesn't even make the top 10 (nor does Dallas).

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Old 06-16-2023, 10:39 PM
 
Location: Sugar Land, Texas
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Uh, all you have to do is look at the weather reports (current and historical... and I just gave you the current above). It's not even subjective as the reports will give the exact temperature and "feels like" temperature.

https://www.currentresults.com/Weath...61%20to%201990.

Just one of many links. Austin doesn't even make the top 10 (nor does Dallas).
I am shocked to see San Francisco on that list? How?
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