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Originally Posted by joldnol
Phoenix is rarely as cool as 100 degrees during the day in summer.......Tucson which is higher in altitude than Phoenix is however
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You’re absolutely right. 100 during a Phoenix summer would be considered a cold snap. I have a home in Scottsdale and as you know it gets very hot in the summer. Not enjoyable at all. However, you don’t see the Heat Indexes in the 120’s like you do in TV. One day in August it was a sizzling uncomfortable 108 in Scottsdale with a heat index of 105, TV was 90 with a heat index of 122. It’s so cliché to talk about “dry heat,” but the fact is it makes all the difference in the world.
When I was a poor college student in Daytona Beach I could not afford an apartment or a car with air conditioning. So perhaps I’ve become a bit more sensitive to the FL humidity than most. I have no doubt there are those that love a hot humid day, I just happen to not be one of them. I like to spend my summers in neither AZ nor FL.
What did they do, in the south, before air conditioning???