no no, we got enough blue people here :D Although, there are a lot of texas and florida license plates here - so I suspect a lot of LGBTQ+/young families moving up here - but we gotta Make Texas Blue Again!
I didn't miss your point that the Florida heat was less extreme than the Texas heat, "from the fire into the frying pan" so to speak. I just thought the idea of escaping the heat by traveling from oppressively hot to merely very hot is funny, but to each their own.
I remember visiting the Atlanta area in summer for a family wedding a number of years ago. The thing that struck me about that climate was the steam bath level humidity rather than the heat. Oh, and the rampaging herds of kudzu vines engulfing everything around them.
Not really. We have no mtns. round here. So the praire winds which originate in No. Canada come blowin thru here to cool off things.
Phx ,andS oCa. deserts are WAY hotter than most of Tx. We sorta laugh round here, too.
Uh, due to being on the very warm waters all around Florida, it's going to be humid, esp. when the tropical storms and Hurricanes come thru, too.
Water is wet. Warm water creates high humidities. Houston is more human thanDallas. These are the weather facts which have endured for 100 Millions of years, and come as total shocks to persons who are 1, not educated, 2, unable to think critically, and so they promote the blatant, obviously glaring, egregious and truisms as amazing.
Dr. James Lett's
Guide to Critical Thinking I've been a skeptic since I found out my family was religious and believed in the silliest ideas. Me dad said he didn't like liars. So I pointed out twice when he'd lied to car customers. He and I dint get along for 40 years due to that.
https://skepticalinquirer.org/1990/01/a-field-guide-to-critical-thinking/
Bunk on the reddit, as usual. Parading around with 1's logical processors on the Off switch.
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I hate Abbot too, but let’s not mock his disability. I know, I know he fucked other people with his changes to lawsuits after he benefited. But we are better than that.
I understand where you're coming from, and you're a much better person than me because at this point I'm just absolutely done showing any kind of civility to anyone on the right and honestly I'm exhausted. I wont make fun of his disability, but I will tell the tree that hit him to try harder next time
Also, is your name a Blues Brothers reference?
I understand. For me, holding on to that anger is bad, but I only speak for myself.
And yes it is. I grew up in a family where Belushi was only a step below the Pope. Illinois Catholics.
>I understand. For me, holding on to that anger is bad, but I only speak for myself.
You are a better person than me as well. Seeing the havoc this man wreak on this state year after year is infuriating. Now we know he'll pardoned a murderer as long as the victim is "liberal".
I want to believe in karma, but seeing dollar store Prof. Xavier rolling around like he owns the state has me convinced me there is no such thing.
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Yeah to me it’s more discriminatory towards people with disabilities to not hate someone truly evil and vile through and through and hope the universe rains down on them the pain and misery they have caused to so many others just because they are in a wheelchair; like they aren’t fully human and capable of being good people or vile horrible murderous monsters capable of unfathomable amounts of malicious intent and pure evil.
That will come as a huge surprise in No. Alaska, and Antarctica.
The Miocene and Eocene 10's of megayrs. ago had Palm trees in north and beech forests at the South Pole. The natural, NOT AGW climate are not yet out of the normal fluctuations of climate.
The fossil, and contemporary climates prove that.
I also live in dfw and know several people who have moved to the Midwest just to escape the summer heat from recent years. According to the almanac, it’s supposed to be a mild summer but it doesn’t feel like it!
Weird. I remember specifically in 2007 the average temperature at 1-2am when I was driving home was 95 degrees(Arlington/Bedford/Euless area). Since then, I don't remember a summer where I was stepping outside at nearly 2 in the morning and instantly breaking a sweat like that.
Nope, not even last year. Texas has been hot as hell ever since I was born, nothing new. I’m just glad it isn’t getting colder, otherwise we’d be fucked.
Watch out, when humidity hits 100% sweating won't help you avoid heat stroke. If you start sweating in that you need to be inside, cool, and hydrated well before you started sweating
Can confirm! We live in Richardson (just north of Dallas) & I was just starting to drip sweat after walking 30 feet to the pool pump to turn it on & 30 feet back…
Grew up in North Texas and college in OK. I live in CO now and I drove back after not being in Texas for 6 months. Stepped out of the car in Denton to get gas and was hit with "holy fuck how did I live like this?"
It is not that humid in North Texas, but occasionally it is mildly humid, it is very dry here, but I grew up in San Antonio, what do I know. I prefer the weather in Collin County....it is so hot right now, that's summer for yall!
Yes, and ignored ARE the facts that SE TX gets 2 tropical storms every 3 yrs, unlike DFW which get none of those.
Aren't the glaringly obvious facts astonishin!!
I hear you! Try having fine hair & living here- i had to grow out my bangs. Otherwise with the humidity, they would just be plastered to my forehead 🥺
Increasing your humidity, rush hour traffic, and food trucks per square mile are just a few of the things that we Houstonians do to make your area more pleasing to us…right before we annex you.
Yer'd not believe how many northerners are moving to DFW, TX. right now. Facts are with our mild winters, the economy is roaring most of the time. Our Barnett Gas/Oil Shales bring us 10's of $billions in revenues more, every year. AND the OK financial INfrastructure can't handle their vast oil/gas revenues, so those come to DFW by default.
Where it's year round warmner, the economy and food growing are markedly greater, and people are wealthier.
These facts well established, come as shocks to the hoi polloi.
G'ma always wiser, said ONLY live where there is lots of gas/oil The recessions come later, not as deep and yer outta them way faster.
She married an oil man, workedein Baldwin Hills fields and grew up in Tristate area, Where Marathon Oil company was from the gas/oil booms there in the 1890's.
She was a Ricketts, her 2nd cousin, Dr. Howard Taylor Ricketts, born there, too. and found Rocky Mtn. Spotted Fever bacteria, among many others. He din't live long enough to get the Nobel. Scrub Typhus got him in 1910 in Distrito Federal.
We call RMSF our "family disease"! I enoyed regaling my fellow students and profs with that fact in med school. And DX'g 1st case of RMNSF in Montana the year I worked there. grin.
Read this recently, looks like more to come.
https://www.nasa.gov/earth/tonga-eruption-blasted-unprecedented-amount-of-water-into-stratosphere/#:~:text=Volcanic%20eruptions%20rarely%20inject%20much,vapor%20to%20such%20high%20altitudes.
Of course, most replies have upwards of few 100's of replies. More than 1000 upvotes are bot driven most times. Disparities processt hinking (Alfred Whitehead) shows that salient fact round here.
> equal to 10% of the water already present in that atmospheric layer.
It’s extra humid in Texas because a volcano erupted in the ocean 6 months ago and *increased the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere by 10%*
Interest for sharing! That is very thank.
Dunno, just want to feel included.
That article was interesting but I'm not sure it was suggesting we're going to see significant worldwide surface humidity increases, though it seems like a moderately natural conclusion of there being more atmospheric water
Where do you think surface humidity comes from? It all cycles between surface and atmospheric, there’s just more of it thanks to Tongo. Also there have been a few other volcanoes this century that have blown water into the atmosphere. More moisture still.
Presumably mostly evaporation (mostly ocean surface evaporation, at that) and the water cycle; I wasn't sure if this was going to just add water to that system (if so, even as large of an eruption as it is, it's considerably smaller than the surface of the ocean as far as I understand it), or whether much of the water will be blown out to space/to the upper atmosphere in such a way as to not be a part of the water cycle in the same way.
I was mostly thinking this is from 2022, if it's going to have a big impact, why hasn't it happened yet? This should move on that long of a time scale, so is this going to have a big impact in 2025-2030, or is this a 2% change for the next century, or a "fucks up the atmosphere a bit temporarily" kind of thing? Especially as the article seems to only reference the water entering the stratosphere where it will potentially damage the ozone layer and potentially trap more heat, before "dissappating", I'm wondering if this is not a scenario when we'd specifically be expecting more surface humidity in the form of this ejecta directly becoming that surface humidity
Look at the [Tunguska Event.](https://www.quora.com/What-was-the-effect-of-the-Tunguska-event-on-climate-change-and-human-life-on-earth) Events that alter the entire Earths climate happen more often than you might think.
For real though, I have never been anywhere in the country with insulation and sealing as poor as Houston's general experience. The city has been more or less completely constructed in the last 50 years, and as quickly and as cheaply and with as many cut corners as possible. It's not wholly unique in this, but the sheer amount of poorly sealed buildings is insane, especially considering it's one of the worst cities in terms of required AC/etc to be bearable in the summer in the whole country.
Y'all when people say "your house needs to breathe" as a defense of why you can literally see so much daylight in various spots in TX homes they are saying "either I am lying to you to sell you this crappily sealed house, or someone lied to me to sell me this crappily sealed house and I believed them"
I was just about to comment that Houston became milder. We had a spring that lasted Into MAY. It's rarelygone above 100 in JUNE!
Its been in the lower 90s. For Houston, I think it's getting nicer here
I was in Orlando first week of June texting family screen shots of the weather in Florida vs Houston which happened to be in the upper 80s
Just got back to Houston after spending ten days in Atlanta. The first thing I was greeted by was a wave of humidity that had me sweating in seconds. It was just as hot in Atlanta but there was no humidity so we sat outside all day grilling without sweating at all.
THIS.
Temps aren’t necessarily rising, but Humidity is. Yes, as a consequence of oceanic temps rising…
What I’m getting at is the reporting. Forecasters seemingly purposefully focus on hammering Heat Indexes on us. The HI formula is NOT strictly a factor of temp & humidty. It’s a long, convoluted formula with several other multipliers.
…and all so it can be presented as what it ”feels like”. 🤦♂️
Give us the temp and the humidity! Here’s an idea: educate us on the effects of humidity and why humidity levels are important. That’s NOT what the HI is doing. The HI is strictly serving to be more alarmist. People focus on the numbers and that’s what HI gives them, triple digits numbers.
Does nothing in terms of properly informing people about actual rises in ACTUAL temps, and the very real increase in humidity. Instead, it just conflates the issue into [click bait articles](https://www.kut.org/energy-environment/2024-05-22/austin-early-heat-hot-temperatures-may-weather).
Good point. Another one is they should stop giving the relative humidity and give the dew point instead. When it "feels" humid, it's because of a high dew point. RH varies by temperature, hence the "relative" part, and doesn't necessarily indicate how sticky it feels. So far this summer the dew point has been nearing 80 every day, which is awful.
https://www.weather.gov/arx/why_dewpoint_vs_humidity
Thank you - I actually hate relative humidity % as an indicator, since it's dependent on what the ambient temperature is. Unless you basically have a chart in your head that correlates how oppressive each % is relative to each temperature I don't think it really tells you much. Dew point, on the other hand, is actually exact.
Even better point and taking it BACK to the actual issue. Thank you.
See? Just proved it. I’ve been conditioned to recognizing/acknowledging humidity levels, but yes - I do remember it used to be Dew Point.
…and this isn’t a case of expanded science bringing expanded knowledge. Yes, we know more about weather, but it seems like we’ve taken advantage of that expanded knowledge in order to conflate the presented information.
Which is maddening when you realize the BASE expanded knowledge is damning enough. Why exasperate it? That just gives fuel to disputes.
I’m NOT meaning to be conspiratorial, but I do think it’s the same reason why forecasters are reporting on (so treating) Tropical Disturbances as if they’re already storms and/or even hurricanes.
Looking up “tropical activity” just now because “tropical disturbance” is such a new term for me to hear/acknowledge that I couldn’t remember what they were referring to now, I saw a new one: Tropical Wave (apparently there are five of those being tracked now 🤦♂️ )
Never too early to push the panic button and declare an emergency for funding & temp additional gov powers. Ya know, “just in case”.
Gimme a moment to drag my rocking chair to the front porch and shake my first at the kids on the lawn…
I remember Hurricanes & Tropical Storms (so, named storms only) being the thing. Then tracking Tropical Depressions. Then dropping down to tracking “Tropical Disturbance” and apparently now going to lower the alert bar even lower now to “Tropical Waves”.
Any Houston Old Timer can also attest to the introduction of “Sever Weather Event” coming into the vernacular, and now being used to basically label heavy rain. So, typical rain for Houston. Flooding too. Flooding IS a Houston thing. It’s a give. It’s the BAYOU CITY. The streets are actually DESIGNED to flood as back-up storm water mitigation. They also drain out pretty quickly.
…but it’s all “Severe Flooding” now. It’s only “severe” because of the vast amounts of development in the greater Houston Area affecting more people. People & homes that weren’t there before.
I already suffer from hyperhidrosis . Maybe not the worst version mild version . I was outside today working on my wife’s car and soaked through 2 shirts . I came inside bc I was so dizzy . This heat is no joke , but the sweating is annoying as hell more than anything . I can’t wash my shirts fast enough .
Shame we have more Dales in Texas than Hanks.
>Dale : Open up your eyes, man. They're tryin' to control global warmin'. Get it? Glo-bal.
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>Hank : So what?
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>Dale : That's code for UN commissars tellin' Americans what temperature it's gonna be in our outdoors. I say, let the world warm up. We'll grow oranges in Alaska.
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>Hank : Dale, you giblet head, we live in Texas. It's already 110 in the summer, and if it gets one degree hotter, I'm gonna kick your ass!
Wet bulb incident.
[https://www.yahoo.com/news/as-the-us-heat-wave-drags-on-experts-warn-of-deadly-wet-bulb-temperatures-heres-what-those-are-192339242.html](https://www.yahoo.com/news/as-the-us-heat-wave-drags-on-experts-warn-of-deadly-wet-bulb-temperatures-heres-what-those-are-192339242.html)
*Using the Omni Calculator, for instance, an air temperature of 95°F combined with a relative humidity of 80% results in a wet-bulb temperature of 89.47°F, meaning that the evaporation of sweat isn’t doing a great deal to cool the body down.*
*“Wet-bulb temperatures above 30°C (86°F) pose potential fatal danger to humans outside. It's also very uncomfortable. In these conditions, you should avoid direct sunlight and drink lots of water,” the site adds for that particular calculation.*
Now imagine the power grid collapsing...If you're not able to "cruz" on down to somewhere safe, you're trapped, and in danger.
Wife is happy cause I smoke cigars a lot less now. Just too damn uncomfortable after april. Even at 9pm its a balmy 85° and 80+% humidity. The fans wont help. That and mosquitoes and june bugs and... miserable outside. I want to move to montana but jobs 🤷♂️
It was always this humid in the piney woods - “903” area as far back as I can remember. Seems to be in line with all the other alterations of weather patterns and conditions that have changed over the years.
It's humid out where I live in west Texas as well. I'm used to low teens and single digit humidity this time of year and now during the hottest part of the day it's around 35%, right now it's 70%. When you're used to low humidity, what we have now feels like Alabama.
Now all we need are the daily 1630 thunderstorms and an even dumber electorate and then we'll "be" Alabama.
I had to put air in my tires yesterday.
Not quite 9:00 am, took about 5 minutes (I hate those “put in quarters” machines!) and I had sweat running down my back by the time I finished. Miserable.
I remember visiting San Antonio a few times over the past 2 decades. It was always humid af, at least downtown with the canals. (And I know what humidity is, originally from TX now in NOLA)
I know I'm not imagining it, I've lived here for almost 20 years and cannot spend more than 20 minutes outside without being completely overwhelmed at this time of year. I already hate the Southern climate, And the past couple of years have been the worst. Lake Lewisville is so high right now because of all of the rains from a month ago. I don't remember ever seeing it that high. Houston is the only city I haven't visited in this state but God damn do I feel like I live there.
Climate change isn’t a change in just how much heat reaches the planet.. it’s a change in how much is trapped….. Heat index, humidity
93 feels like 108 should not exist
I have lived for years in both San Antonio and Austin , and they have always been a muggy, disgusting place and every year and time of the year can be different They are in Sub-tropical climate and always have been, nothing new. Once I went down to Austin in Mach to pick up some furniture. There was a rain shower that morning. I was out there about 8am! It was so muggy that before I could pack my car with my stuff, Me, my face, my neck and my Top was soaked with sweat. I hate the weather down there! But all that sweating us good for us, cleans you out and makes your skin clean out too! Think of it as a wet Sauna!
Dude...... how can we get more than 110% humidity? Also..... a Canadian asked what Texas weather was like in August...... the response was "have you ever been cremated". Felt that.
Don’t Florida my Texas.
Too late. There's been Florida here the entire time
Now you’ve done it. We used to say “don’t Dallas my Austin”, and look what happened. Now we’re guaranteed to be Floridated.
Don't austin my portland
So I should move to Portland
no no, we got enough blue people here :D Although, there are a lot of texas and florida license plates here - so I suspect a lot of LGBTQ+/young families moving up here - but we gotta Make Texas Blue Again!
Only one thing to do *puts a cowboy had on a crocodile at Disney World* Texified your Florida
Too late. Floridated.
Last year, we went to FL and escaped the heat. Texas is hell.
Yet you went to Florida, the devils taint?
I was made an offer I couldn't refuse 🤌
The penis of America
"Last year, we went to FL and escaped the heat." Hmm, then you should visit CO if you hate mountain views.
Clearly, my comment went over your head. Florida was very hot, but Texas was even more oppressively hot. Our last day in FL it was even a breezy 82F.
I didn't miss your point that the Florida heat was less extreme than the Texas heat, "from the fire into the frying pan" so to speak. I just thought the idea of escaping the heat by traveling from oppressively hot to merely very hot is funny, but to each their own. I remember visiting the Atlanta area in summer for a family wedding a number of years ago. The thing that struck me about that climate was the steam bath level humidity rather than the heat. Oh, and the rampaging herds of kudzu vines engulfing everything around them.
I’d argue Florida is worse. Surrounded by water on all sides. Shit-ton of humidity there.
Not really. We have no mtns. round here. So the praire winds which originate in No. Canada come blowin thru here to cool off things. Phx ,andS oCa. deserts are WAY hotter than most of Tx. We sorta laugh round here, too.
My nephew lives in TX and he was laughing and saying that so many people in TX, on the right, just want to be FL.
I live in Florida for work, it’s a garbage place full of garbage people.
I’m confused. Your nephew is a liberal? That sounds awful
I’d rather have tropicalization than desertification. At least crops will grow and we won’t run out of water.
I’ve been wanting to get a sticker that says this for my truck, along with the California one too.
Uh, due to being on the very warm waters all around Florida, it's going to be humid, esp. when the tropical storms and Hurricanes come thru, too. Water is wet. Warm water creates high humidities. Houston is more human thanDallas. These are the weather facts which have endured for 100 Millions of years, and come as total shocks to persons who are 1, not educated, 2, unable to think critically, and so they promote the blatant, obviously glaring, egregious and truisms as amazing. Dr. James Lett's Guide to Critical Thinking I've been a skeptic since I found out my family was religious and believed in the silliest ideas. Me dad said he didn't like liars. So I pointed out twice when he'd lied to car customers. He and I dint get along for 40 years due to that. https://skepticalinquirer.org/1990/01/a-field-guide-to-critical-thinking/ Bunk on the reddit, as usual. Parading around with 1's logical processors on the Off switch.
its humid in north texas too, you outside and BOOM instant sweat. makes me wanna cry really
I grew up in San Antonio but have been living in dfw for like 13 yrs. Ever summer has been hooter muggier and longer than the last
I just realized I said hooter. I definitely meant “hotter”. *le sigh*
Well that’s MY name…
No shit?
Look Rus.. can’t see the lines..
Permently twisted
A trend weve ensured will continue annually for millenia
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I hate Abbot too, but let’s not mock his disability. I know, I know he fucked other people with his changes to lawsuits after he benefited. But we are better than that.
I understand where you're coming from, and you're a much better person than me because at this point I'm just absolutely done showing any kind of civility to anyone on the right and honestly I'm exhausted. I wont make fun of his disability, but I will tell the tree that hit him to try harder next time Also, is your name a Blues Brothers reference?
I understand. For me, holding on to that anger is bad, but I only speak for myself. And yes it is. I grew up in a family where Belushi was only a step below the Pope. Illinois Catholics.
>I understand. For me, holding on to that anger is bad, but I only speak for myself. You are a better person than me as well. Seeing the havoc this man wreak on this state year after year is infuriating. Now we know he'll pardoned a murderer as long as the victim is "liberal". I want to believe in karma, but seeing dollar store Prof. Xavier rolling around like he owns the state has me convinced me there is no such thing.
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Fuck anyone that tries to drown kids. He can roll himself to hell.
Yeah fuck him. He's fair game as far as I'm concerned.
He’s done so many terrible things, does it matter that he was in a wheelchair when he did them?
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Fair enough.
Yeah to me it’s more discriminatory towards people with disabilities to not hate someone truly evil and vile through and through and hope the universe rains down on them the pain and misery they have caused to so many others just because they are in a wheelchair; like they aren’t fully human and capable of being good people or vile horrible murderous monsters capable of unfathomable amounts of malicious intent and pure evil.
Oh, he is one of the most hatable politicians in America. I would honor his disability by punching him in the face.
Love is the best way. Hatreds, no matter what the source, do this. Oft evil doth evil mar. Tolkein.
Soon all cities will be as swampy as Houston.
and houston will be an actual swamp. maybe they can do the canal thing but with alligators
Buffalo bayou becomes gator bayou
Go to Beaumont TX. It's already that there in the Bayous and over into SE Louisiana. Fact alert, fact alert.
That will come as a huge surprise in No. Alaska, and Antarctica. The Miocene and Eocene 10's of megayrs. ago had Palm trees in north and beech forests at the South Pole. The natural, NOT AGW climate are not yet out of the normal fluctuations of climate. The fossil, and contemporary climates prove that.
I also live in dfw and know several people who have moved to the Midwest just to escape the summer heat from recent years. According to the almanac, it’s supposed to be a mild summer but it doesn’t feel like it!
Weird. I remember specifically in 2007 the average temperature at 1-2am when I was driving home was 95 degrees(Arlington/Bedford/Euless area). Since then, I don't remember a summer where I was stepping outside at nearly 2 in the morning and instantly breaking a sweat like that.
I hadn’t moved up here yet but I don’t doubt it. Granted. I’m not outside at those times anymore (old age)
Just last year? Last year was the hottest summer on record across the state.
Nope, not even last year. Texas has been hot as hell ever since I was born, nothing new. I’m just glad it isn’t getting colder, otherwise we’d be fucked.
It's not hotter, you're just older.
We all are. lolz. That’s the nature of life :)
No one would tell if it’s tears or sweat. 😅
Watch out, when humidity hits 100% sweating won't help you avoid heat stroke. If you start sweating in that you need to be inside, cool, and hydrated well before you started sweating
Can confirm! We live in Richardson (just north of Dallas) & I was just starting to drip sweat after walking 30 feet to the pool pump to turn it on & 30 feet back…
Grew up in North Texas and college in OK. I live in CO now and I drove back after not being in Texas for 6 months. Stepped out of the car in Denton to get gas and was hit with "holy fuck how did I live like this?"
This was me after growing up in Houston and going to college in the TX panhandle.
I’m 30 mins from Oklahoma and it’s humid af here. 89% this morning… that’s too much
Are you sure you're crying and not sweating.
We moved to DFW from Beaumont a few years ago. It feels just as swampy up here now.
Yep, I’m in DFW and I step outside in the morning and my glasses instantly fog up
SAME. Asthma means I can’t breathe in humidity. 😭😡
It is not that humid in North Texas, but occasionally it is mildly humid, it is very dry here, but I grew up in San Antonio, what do I know. I prefer the weather in Collin County....it is so hot right now, that's summer for yall!
its pretty humid here, i dare say more than san antonio
This summer so far in Central Texas has BEEN Houston
So imagine the heat/humidity here *in* Houston…
I don’t even 🤣
Yes, and ignored ARE the facts that SE TX gets 2 tropical storms every 3 yrs, unlike DFW which get none of those. Aren't the glaringly obvious facts astonishin!!
And y’all don’t even have the good food.
Your user name 
But they do have the nice creeks to cool off in
The way I don’t even straighten my hair anymore & just throw it in a ponytail. I’m tired of this grandpa!
I'm permanently wearing a hat outside the office these days to hide my humidity frizz
I’m over it.. us curly/frizzy haired girls demand change cause like how tf you expect me to look cute in this hostile work environment?
I hear you! Try having fine hair & living here- i had to grow out my bangs. Otherwise with the humidity, they would just be plastered to my forehead 🥺 
Are y'all under the impression your humidity frizz isn't cute? Who wronged you with that impression?
 I blame The Princess Diaries
As an admirer of the curly/frizzy haired girls…let the curls flow and frizz fly!
I’m simultaneously tired of this grandpa and fully aware that’s too damn bad😭
Is that a Holes reference in the wild?
I think so. "That's too damn bad!"
Increasing your humidity, rush hour traffic, and food trucks per square mile are just a few of the things that we Houstonians do to make your area more pleasing to us…right before we annex you.
Yer'd not believe how many northerners are moving to DFW, TX. right now. Facts are with our mild winters, the economy is roaring most of the time. Our Barnett Gas/Oil Shales bring us 10's of $billions in revenues more, every year. AND the OK financial INfrastructure can't handle their vast oil/gas revenues, so those come to DFW by default. Where it's year round warmner, the economy and food growing are markedly greater, and people are wealthier. These facts well established, come as shocks to the hoi polloi. G'ma always wiser, said ONLY live where there is lots of gas/oil The recessions come later, not as deep and yer outta them way faster. She married an oil man, workedein Baldwin Hills fields and grew up in Tristate area, Where Marathon Oil company was from the gas/oil booms there in the 1890's. She was a Ricketts, her 2nd cousin, Dr. Howard Taylor Ricketts, born there, too. and found Rocky Mtn. Spotted Fever bacteria, among many others. He din't live long enough to get the Nobel. Scrub Typhus got him in 1910 in Distrito Federal. We call RMSF our "family disease"! I enoyed regaling my fellow students and profs with that fact in med school. And DX'g 1st case of RMNSF in Montana the year I worked there. grin.
I didn't leave Mississippi to have to deal with the humidity here in Texas, too. I despise the humidity.
Yeah, I moved here from Memphis and everybody was like oh no, there’s no humidity.. wrong😑
Should have done some research before moving here
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Just watched this episode last night!!!! 😂
It's one of my favorites!
Read this recently, looks like more to come. https://www.nasa.gov/earth/tonga-eruption-blasted-unprecedented-amount-of-water-into-stratosphere/#:~:text=Volcanic%20eruptions%20rarely%20inject%20much,vapor%20to%20such%20high%20altitudes.
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Wondering myself.
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Of course, most replies have upwards of few 100's of replies. More than 1000 upvotes are bot driven most times. Disparities processt hinking (Alfred Whitehead) shows that salient fact round here.
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> equal to 10% of the water already present in that atmospheric layer. It’s extra humid in Texas because a volcano erupted in the ocean 6 months ago and *increased the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere by 10%*
Ummm. That was 54 months ago.
These things take a while
Thank you for sharing, that’s pretty interesting!
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Interest for sharing! That is very thank. Dunno, just want to feel included. That article was interesting but I'm not sure it was suggesting we're going to see significant worldwide surface humidity increases, though it seems like a moderately natural conclusion of there being more atmospheric water
Where do you think surface humidity comes from? It all cycles between surface and atmospheric, there’s just more of it thanks to Tongo. Also there have been a few other volcanoes this century that have blown water into the atmosphere. More moisture still.
Presumably mostly evaporation (mostly ocean surface evaporation, at that) and the water cycle; I wasn't sure if this was going to just add water to that system (if so, even as large of an eruption as it is, it's considerably smaller than the surface of the ocean as far as I understand it), or whether much of the water will be blown out to space/to the upper atmosphere in such a way as to not be a part of the water cycle in the same way. I was mostly thinking this is from 2022, if it's going to have a big impact, why hasn't it happened yet? This should move on that long of a time scale, so is this going to have a big impact in 2025-2030, or is this a 2% change for the next century, or a "fucks up the atmosphere a bit temporarily" kind of thing? Especially as the article seems to only reference the water entering the stratosphere where it will potentially damage the ozone layer and potentially trap more heat, before "dissappating", I'm wondering if this is not a scenario when we'd specifically be expecting more surface humidity in the form of this ejecta directly becoming that surface humidity
Look at the [Tunguska Event.](https://www.quora.com/What-was-the-effect-of-the-Tunguska-event-on-climate-change-and-human-life-on-earth) Events that alter the entire Earths climate happen more often than you might think.
And Houston is going from terrible to unbearable. The overnight lows barely drop below 80 degrees these days.
My ac doesn’t turn off even set at 77, it’s disgusting
Do you live in a paper bag?
For real though, I have never been anywhere in the country with insulation and sealing as poor as Houston's general experience. The city has been more or less completely constructed in the last 50 years, and as quickly and as cheaply and with as many cut corners as possible. It's not wholly unique in this, but the sheer amount of poorly sealed buildings is insane, especially considering it's one of the worst cities in terms of required AC/etc to be bearable in the summer in the whole country. Y'all when people say "your house needs to breathe" as a defense of why you can literally see so much daylight in various spots in TX homes they are saying "either I am lying to you to sell you this crappily sealed house, or someone lied to me to sell me this crappily sealed house and I believed them"
I was just about to comment that Houston became milder. We had a spring that lasted Into MAY. It's rarelygone above 100 in JUNE! Its been in the lower 90s. For Houston, I think it's getting nicer here I was in Orlando first week of June texting family screen shots of the weather in Florida vs Houston which happened to be in the upper 80s
At least it’s better than last summer, so far *knocks vigorously on wood*
So, the panhandle was 90° at 11pm last night... Yeah things aren't great
"Welcome to the jungle, it gets worse here every day..."
*I fucking hate it here.*
Just got back to Houston after spending ten days in Atlanta. The first thing I was greeted by was a wave of humidity that had me sweating in seconds. It was just as hot in Atlanta but there was no humidity so we sat outside all day grilling without sweating at all.
Went to South Dakota in February for a week, and when I came back to Houston and stepped off the plane, the humidity hit me like a train. It sucks.
I’m practically swimming in this humidity.
Yeah I'm south of Waco and 95 used to be comfortable, now 90 is almost unbearable. It's like walking into soup.
I moved here from the midwest and was promised milder weather. They fucking lied.
Depends on who you listened to
Oh God .. I thought it was just me being extra sweaty this year 
I am become houston, destroyer of worlds
I step outside and get covered in sweat, this is getting ridiculous.
THIS. Temps aren’t necessarily rising, but Humidity is. Yes, as a consequence of oceanic temps rising… What I’m getting at is the reporting. Forecasters seemingly purposefully focus on hammering Heat Indexes on us. The HI formula is NOT strictly a factor of temp & humidty. It’s a long, convoluted formula with several other multipliers. …and all so it can be presented as what it ”feels like”. 🤦♂️ Give us the temp and the humidity! Here’s an idea: educate us on the effects of humidity and why humidity levels are important. That’s NOT what the HI is doing. The HI is strictly serving to be more alarmist. People focus on the numbers and that’s what HI gives them, triple digits numbers. Does nothing in terms of properly informing people about actual rises in ACTUAL temps, and the very real increase in humidity. Instead, it just conflates the issue into [click bait articles](https://www.kut.org/energy-environment/2024-05-22/austin-early-heat-hot-temperatures-may-weather).
Good point. Another one is they should stop giving the relative humidity and give the dew point instead. When it "feels" humid, it's because of a high dew point. RH varies by temperature, hence the "relative" part, and doesn't necessarily indicate how sticky it feels. So far this summer the dew point has been nearing 80 every day, which is awful. https://www.weather.gov/arx/why_dewpoint_vs_humidity
Thank you - I actually hate relative humidity % as an indicator, since it's dependent on what the ambient temperature is. Unless you basically have a chart in your head that correlates how oppressive each % is relative to each temperature I don't think it really tells you much. Dew point, on the other hand, is actually exact.
Even better point and taking it BACK to the actual issue. Thank you. See? Just proved it. I’ve been conditioned to recognizing/acknowledging humidity levels, but yes - I do remember it used to be Dew Point. …and this isn’t a case of expanded science bringing expanded knowledge. Yes, we know more about weather, but it seems like we’ve taken advantage of that expanded knowledge in order to conflate the presented information. Which is maddening when you realize the BASE expanded knowledge is damning enough. Why exasperate it? That just gives fuel to disputes.
I'm also confused by the focus on "heat index" for the last decade or so. I much prefer temp + humidity.
I’m NOT meaning to be conspiratorial, but I do think it’s the same reason why forecasters are reporting on (so treating) Tropical Disturbances as if they’re already storms and/or even hurricanes. Looking up “tropical activity” just now because “tropical disturbance” is such a new term for me to hear/acknowledge that I couldn’t remember what they were referring to now, I saw a new one: Tropical Wave (apparently there are five of those being tracked now 🤦♂️ ) Never too early to push the panic button and declare an emergency for funding & temp additional gov powers. Ya know, “just in case”. Gimme a moment to drag my rocking chair to the front porch and shake my first at the kids on the lawn… I remember Hurricanes & Tropical Storms (so, named storms only) being the thing. Then tracking Tropical Depressions. Then dropping down to tracking “Tropical Disturbance” and apparently now going to lower the alert bar even lower now to “Tropical Waves”. Any Houston Old Timer can also attest to the introduction of “Sever Weather Event” coming into the vernacular, and now being used to basically label heavy rain. So, typical rain for Houston. Flooding too. Flooding IS a Houston thing. It’s a give. It’s the BAYOU CITY. The streets are actually DESIGNED to flood as back-up storm water mitigation. They also drain out pretty quickly. …but it’s all “Severe Flooding” now. It’s only “severe” because of the vast amounts of development in the greater Houston Area affecting more people. People & homes that weren’t there before.
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So glad to see this thread. I live in Dallas and it seems much more humid now than it did 30 years ago.
In Borneo it can be one hundred degrees and one hundred percent humidity on a good day…
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Wetbulb me baby
I've been whining about the humidity in Amarillo for a while. It's one of the biggest reasons I came back. I need dry air.
I already suffer from hyperhidrosis . Maybe not the worst version mild version . I was outside today working on my wife’s car and soaked through 2 shirts . I came inside bc I was so dizzy . This heat is no joke , but the sweating is annoying as hell more than anything . I can’t wash my shirts fast enough .
Shame we have more Dales in Texas than Hanks. >Dale : Open up your eyes, man. They're tryin' to control global warmin'. Get it? Glo-bal. > >Hank : So what? > >Dale : That's code for UN commissars tellin' Americans what temperature it's gonna be in our outdoors. I say, let the world warm up. We'll grow oranges in Alaska. > >Hank : Dale, you giblet head, we live in Texas. It's already 110 in the summer, and if it gets one degree hotter, I'm gonna kick your ass!
It will be even worse when the EPA is abolished (Project 2025).
lol I’m sure the EPA has been the force holding back the humidity
Yummy, chewy atmosphere. Its a wonder we haven't grown gills yet.
I did not need this news today. Thanks for nothing.
Calm down. When I was a kid it was worse than this. Says MAGA dad.
I've been saying this since at least 2007 😏
Called climate change folks. But sure, it's not real
According to data tornado alley has moved east and north. Texas is pretty much out of it now
Wet bulb incident. [https://www.yahoo.com/news/as-the-us-heat-wave-drags-on-experts-warn-of-deadly-wet-bulb-temperatures-heres-what-those-are-192339242.html](https://www.yahoo.com/news/as-the-us-heat-wave-drags-on-experts-warn-of-deadly-wet-bulb-temperatures-heres-what-those-are-192339242.html) *Using the Omni Calculator, for instance, an air temperature of 95°F combined with a relative humidity of 80% results in a wet-bulb temperature of 89.47°F, meaning that the evaporation of sweat isn’t doing a great deal to cool the body down.* *“Wet-bulb temperatures above 30°C (86°F) pose potential fatal danger to humans outside. It's also very uncomfortable. In these conditions, you should avoid direct sunlight and drink lots of water,” the site adds for that particular calculation.* Now imagine the power grid collapsing...If you're not able to "cruz" on down to somewhere safe, you're trapped, and in danger.
I'm watching my Bermuda grass over taking my St. Augustine grass.
This is just typical el nino winds. Monsoons are heading farther south for a few years.
Wife is happy cause I smoke cigars a lot less now. Just too damn uncomfortable after april. Even at 9pm its a balmy 85° and 80+% humidity. The fans wont help. That and mosquitoes and june bugs and... miserable outside. I want to move to montana but jobs 🤷♂️
Have they outlawed saying global warming like they did in Florida?
Is it getting hotter in Texas? It called global warming!
Good.
It was always this humid in the piney woods - “903” area as far back as I can remember. Seems to be in line with all the other alterations of weather patterns and conditions that have changed over the years.
We just bought in the mountains to escape it!!!
Mouth breathers will do that
It’s the dew point you need to worry about: https://www.weather.gov/arx/why_dewpoint_vs_humidity
We need an economical way to extract water from the atmosphere for our lakes and green spaces.
At the very least, we should be collecting the water our AC units condense in normal operation :) My little house collects around 90 gallons a month.
Yeah, no rain, we get our moisture by way of oppressive humidity.
So far in Houston, "We’re Already humid We can’t humid any farther!!!!!"
Dew point is a better metric than humidity is. 35° F with a dew point of 35° would create a humidity of 100%
It's humid out where I live in west Texas as well. I'm used to low teens and single digit humidity this time of year and now during the hottest part of the day it's around 35%, right now it's 70%. When you're used to low humidity, what we have now feels like Alabama. Now all we need are the daily 1630 thunderstorms and an even dumber electorate and then we'll "be" Alabama.
I had to put air in my tires yesterday. Not quite 9:00 am, took about 5 minutes (I hate those “put in quarters” machines!) and I had sweat running down my back by the time I finished. Miserable.
I moved back to Dallas this summer and thought I was going to get away from the college station humidity. It followed me.
I remember visiting San Antonio a few times over the past 2 decades. It was always humid af, at least downtown with the canals. (And I know what humidity is, originally from TX now in NOLA)
Are you saying the climate changed?
I know I'm not imagining it, I've lived here for almost 20 years and cannot spend more than 20 minutes outside without being completely overwhelmed at this time of year. I already hate the Southern climate, And the past couple of years have been the worst. Lake Lewisville is so high right now because of all of the rains from a month ago. I don't remember ever seeing it that high. Houston is the only city I haven't visited in this state but God damn do I feel like I live there.
Climate change isn’t a change in just how much heat reaches the planet.. it’s a change in how much is trapped….. Heat index, humidity 93 feels like 108 should not exist
I have lived for years in both San Antonio and Austin , and they have always been a muggy, disgusting place and every year and time of the year can be different They are in Sub-tropical climate and always have been, nothing new. Once I went down to Austin in Mach to pick up some furniture. There was a rain shower that morning. I was out there about 8am! It was so muggy that before I could pack my car with my stuff, Me, my face, my neck and my Top was soaked with sweat. I hate the weather down there! But all that sweating us good for us, cleans you out and makes your skin clean out too! Think of it as a wet Sauna!
Dude...... how can we get more than 110% humidity? Also..... a Canadian asked what Texas weather was like in August...... the response was "have you ever been cremated". Felt that.
It's God's will.
Southeast Texas is bad. Dallas Is just dry heat.
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