High Humidity or Dry Heat
 

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.

Interesting question.

I enjoy the heat and the humidity (as long as I'm not working in it) is bearable. One of the distinct advantages here in TV is that during the summer months you can pretty much walk onto any of the executive courses in the afternoon without having to worry about crowds...I played nine holes on El Diablo yesterday using a pullcart and aside from one other couple about five holes ahead of me, I was the only one there. Pretty nice.

Hot is hot, I lived in Texas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico. Anything over 100 degrees is hot 118 unbearable no matter where you at. Course I’m older and Florida hot still hot. I feel sun on my back and neck more down here, but I old…..

I got no problem with the summer heat and humidity in Florida, in fact I rather enjoy it. What I very much dislike is the frequent and unpredictable lighting, which wreaks havoc with outdoor activities.

I lived Arizona just before I moved here and hot is hot no matter where you go.

I’m in the “hot is hot” camp. I lived in Las Vegas for awhile and 110 there and 95 and humid here are both hot for me.

While walking the Strip in Vegas, we came upon a young gentleman lying
on a grassy area beside the main walkway. He look exhausted and overheated. I asked: "Do you need help?" Several onlookers looked worried. He waved his hand and moaned: "Please, go! All of you! Save yourselves! Don't end up like me!" A man passing by gave him an unopened bottle of water. The young man quickly poured it over his head. A second onlooker gave him another bottle. He gulped it down in seconds.

If you have ever walked the Vegas Strip when it is over 100 degrees, you know the agony. For those that never have, Don't do it! Save yourself the pure hell. Once for us was more than enough. Never again!

"It's a dry heat"
 

We were snowbirds out west for about 15 years. We had a winter house in Lake Havasu City AZ for most of that, but we would spend a few weeks there in the summer also. When we decided to settle in one location, we chose FL. We can handle the summer weather here better than the hot areas of AZ. Yeah, we sweat a lot when doing outdoor activities here, but at least we can be outdoors. In AZ when it is 110-115 for days on end you cannot even be outside after 9 or 10am. Once in a while it hits 120 degrees and the relative humidity near zero. Sure, a lot of people live in Lake Havasu, but you don't see many of them running around outside during the summer afternoons. At some point, usually in June, I would turn the water heater tank off because the cold tap water was hot enough to shower in. lol
The local joke was, "What are there more of, air conditioner techs or dermatologists?"

First of all the heat and humidity in Florida is far from unbearable. The summer months are actually the best time of the year unless you like the Florida cold winter months!

Moved here after almost 10 yrs in the Phoenix area. Much prefer Florida! The harsh desert environment leaches minerals from your body and causes health problems not faced here. Of course, you don’t have to dodge gators and hurricanes there!������������*♂️

I prefer the dry heat. 98° and dry heat as much more bearable than 98° with the humidity we have here in Florida.

I’ve been in both and hands down I prefer the florida heat and humidity. I also love the gorgeous hot sultry nights. No need for a jacket or sweater or layers like desert cool to cold evenings! The humidity also makes my skin and hair healthy where as the desert weather wrecked havoc on my skin.

We've been to both Las Vegas and Arizona. The former, several times but remember the year we went to an event there in August. We had some free time before the event so took in the sites. The guys played golf in the 100+ temps (something I'd not do) while some of the rest of us walked the strip---it WAS brutal and I was much younger. Arizona---went in the winter months but the dry air was wayyyyy too much. If one added the heat with this it wouldn't have been tolerable (MHO). Yes it's hot/humid here, but you can plan accordingly. I don't get why folks want to exercise (walk or run or bike) in the heat of the day---which is late a.m. to late afternoon. Do your activities either in the morning or later in the day. PLUS we are the lightening capital and in the rainy season it happens frequently. They say "hear thunder, take cover"....you rarely see folks doing that.

We were in Phoenix last week 117°. Was amazed how much cooler it felt when you found shade. Here it’s hot everywhere.
An answer to your question I take the dry heat.
PS- loved taking a Waymo driverless ride.

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.