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Originally Posted by PersonOfInterest
Florida's high humidity and heat in the summer are unbearable to many and the reason for many part time residents. Arizona has higher temperatures with dryer, less humid heat.
Would you rather endure Arizona at 110 degrees with 20 percent humidity or Florida's 95 degrees and 90 percent humidity? Having played golf under both conditions I've found Florida's high humidity to be easier to tolerate, but not everyone feels the same.
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I had a heat stroke once—in upstate New York—and now I just can’t take high heat or humidity while doing things for more than a few minutes. Golf would be a misery. I gave it up. I grew up in Denver, and I remember an ENT surgeon telling me, “Do you know how you can tell you’re in Denver? [which is often very low humidity]? At every intersection, the driver next to you has his finger up his nose fishing.” In Arizona, the drying of nasal secretions can certainly make it hard to breathe. Lots of home run humidifiers to add moisture inside. I don’t have that problem here.
Consider air conditioning. It doesn’t pay attention to things like the “heat index” because removing humidity from the air is just a by-product of cooling. No extra charge. In The Villages, the temp (excluding the “heat index”) isn’t often above 90, and when it is, often clouds roll in so the sun isn’t shining on houses. It takes a lot more electricity to cool a house from 110° to 75° on a day where the sun shines the whole time than it takes to cool it from 90° to 75° where the sun shines for three or four fewer hours.
Would I want to play golf on a course surrounded by a desert or surrounded by paradise? I prefer it here.