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Been 115⁰-125⁰ for weeks here in Arizona 🌵😊
Be safe in Arizona ❤that’s nuts ! From Missouri
Oh wow
Yea but there is no humidity. Hang out in Texas at 108 with 70-80% humidity. It's insane.
Prescott, Arizona, resident here. At a mile high, we’re almost always 15 degrees cooler than Phoenix. Flagstaff, near the Grand Canyon, is over 7000 feet and cooler yet. Microclimates matter.
@@guywithalltheanswers6942No humidity is more comfortable, but the dry heat can sneak up on you and kill you before you're miserable if your electrolytes aren't up to snuff.
I have lived in Texas most of my life. There's a meme going around about someone saying they're thinking about visiting Texas in August and "what's the weather like?" The response is "Have you ever been cremated?" That is legit the most accurate thing I have ever seen. No joke.
I lived in Texas and now in Phoenix. I have zero problem with Texas in Summer.
Yeah but we get used to the heat, someone who isn't used to it will NOT enjoy it.
I have lived in Texas and now back in South Carolina and SC is hotter and more humid.
I just heard that one. I laughed and said that’s true lol
@@msp9810 Depends on where in Texas. Houston is just as hot and humid if not more so, DFW is less humid, and west Texas is hot and dry.
Do not do not do not do not do not go to Texas in August. The high temperatures mixed with the humidity is literally not safe for someone who isn't used to it and it is even unsafe for people that are used to it sometimes. I live in the south and I go outside in the summer and it's like hitting a brick wall. Most things in life you get used to, the heat with the humidity is not one of them my friend. To be clear the temperature goes over 100° more often than you would think
The only time I've ever been to Texas was a layover in Houston, which doesn't really count. It was the middle of February, and the temperature was about 68 F (20 C) with nearly 100% humidity. No thanks at any time of the year.
Lol. I do hard work outside in Texas every summer. You just freeze a gallon of water and take it with you. It will defrost and be cold for a long time. Or get an insulated gallon jug with cold water. You get to sweat out all your poison and it's good for your brain to be in the heat. Makes you stronger.
@@JPMadden Houston has the worst weather because it's a swamp. The humidity is terrible. Austin and Dallas have better weather but it's still humid in summer. You just need to understand you don't wear dark colors or tight close or pants. Bring cold drinks and or beer. Look at what the locals do. We go to the rivers and lakes and pools. Our bars have misters and every place has AC blasting. I grew up without AC in Texas and it's nothing compared to that lifestyle.
August is extremely hot in the south. The southern gulf coast, including Texas, also has hurricanes in the summer months. Texas just had a pretty bad hurricane (Beryl), lots of flooding, wind, and no power for DAYS.
For Texas, the best months are late September/October/early November. Then, in the spring... March, April, and May. These months are when you can see the Bluebonnets... but remember that's also prime tornado season!!!
OMG I had a work conference in San Antonio in August once. It was so hot! Also, the city was not ready for +6,000 people to decend mid week. Every store within walking distance of the Alamo was sold out of beer and cigarettes the first night.
it's like i have told Europeans on Twitter/X, you don't have A/C because you choose to, we have A/C because we HAVE to.
Yeah housing laws in texas require rental properties have AC to be considered habitable. At least in Dallas if the interior temperature gets above 84°f your landlord is required to supply window or portable AC units due to how many infants, elderly, and disabled people have died from heat stroke or medication spoiling. Last year the indoor temperature of my apartment got up to 86- 90°f for multiple days causing a lot of my meds and feeding tube formula to spoil and I had to call code enforcement to get my apartment management to fix my AC.
No air conditioning at my house in Colorado. It was 67F while 100F Texas/Louisiana. It was raining in CO.
There's a reason we have a term in the states called death valley germans...
Because most european tourists cant comprehend how hot it gets in places in america. A family of german tourists in the 90s dissapeared in desth valley and the husband, after driving their rental through some hard dirt roads attempted to hike to near by military base for help. The van and the family where found several weeks later. The husband wasnt found till a few years ago.
Oof. Yeah if any non Americans are reading this, do your best to avoid death valley. It has that name for a reason.
Heard someone say that what Brits consider a heatwave we Americans actively choose as our house temperature during the summers. And it's true. Europeans complain about 75 degree heat, in the south, people set their air conditioners to the mid-70s in order to stay cool.
It's not unusual in the south to experience 70-80 degree weather in December/January. And in the summer--July/August especially, it's NORMAL for temperatures to soar into the 100s. But what makes that heat worse, is the humidity.
If you want to know what it's like, Boil a pot of water. Soak a towel in it. Let it cool just until you can handle the towel without burning yourself (it still needs to be uncomfortably hot), wrap that towel around your head, covering your entire face. Try to breathe. This is what we live with for 3-4 months of the year. Every. Single. Day.
South Carolina knows.
Dry heat is totally different than humid heat. The two can't be compared.
Got that right. Texas here, where you can wear shorts at Christmas, then a week later, you pull out every blanket in the house, light up the gas fire, dig the camp stove out of the garage, and find the lanterns, because an ice storm has knocked the power out.
Growing up in south Louisiana, I’ve always said that walking out side is like having a hot wet towel wrapped around one’s head. The worst part is that it is like that at 11:00 at night.
Dry heat is different, but here in Arizona I know people who set their ac to 85. Then you walk out the door and it feels like you opened an oven.
If Europeans are surprised by American weather. Keep in mind that most of the U.S.-Canada border is at a slightly lower latitude than Paris. Lisbon and D.C. are roughly on the same latitude. The remarkable thing is not how warm America is, but rather how Europe isn't a frozen hellscape 10 months of the year.
Also, he mentioned America being beautiful. That's absolutely true for our nature. Most of our cities leave a lot to be desired. And a lot of areas through the rust belt and Appalachia are downright depressing. All Americans should have to visit Appalachia, but non-Americans probably shouldn't.
Louisiana is worse than Appalachia to me... The bad areas anyway... I live in Alabama and it has a reputation (which is not true btw) of being the worst state in the country for pretty much any metric you look up...
But the contrast between bama and Mississippi is stark... As soon as cross into Mississippi the roads deteriorate substantially and you notice the difference in general economic situation of the 2 states.. I hope it gets better soon in Mississippi and then they get those damn roads fixed 😅
@@thomaslove6494 I’ve never spent much time in Mississippi or Louisiana so I can’t say for sure. But if you take a drive on US-52 through West Virginia (King Coal Highway), it will make you cry just to know people live like that.
At least Alabama has the automotive industry. Mississippi ain't got shit for any high paying jobs, so it stays poor. Their biggest industry is the health system.
As others have mentioned, Texas during our summers consistently have 100+ degree Fahrenheit days.
We recently broke a couple years ago or so the "100 days of 100 degree heat" record where I think we had 113 consecutive days of 100 degree heat.
The thing mist people don't realize is even at 10 PM (20:00) it's still about 92 degrees fahrenheit on most days (33.33 degrees celsius) and at midnight it drops to "as low as" 86 fahrenheit (30 celsius)
In August, it gets really funny, because it's basically the same weather + humidity + no clouds + non-stop.
I remember when I participated in Tennis tournaments as a kid, one of my first tournaments in August, it was a bracket of 43 players (some people got defaults or by's to the next round)
Due to my ranking I got a by the first round... Then my opponent in the 2nd round went home due to fear of heat stroke... The 3rd round opponent went to the hospital due to heat stroke after beating his opponent in a 2 hour match, which he was winning by won by default whrn his opponent started vomiting, then I was about to face my semi-finals opponent but the organisers felt bad for me sitting around for 5 hours, so I faced the 3rd round opponent from the other side of the bracket, he was a kid 2 years younger, I figuratively slapped him and won 6-1, 6-0.
Then I was in the finals... Getting juiced up and!... It started to rain and the tournament was called off.
By the by, have you ever felt rain when it's 103 degrees out? It's weird. And gross. Like a warm shower that's not meant to be warm
Actually Texas just got hit by a hurricane and more than 1,000,000 are without power.
If an American tells you not to visit Texas in August trust them. They don't want you to be miserable on your visit. ❤
Texas is awesome to visit but living there might be a challenge.
@@Ellecram They've had a ton of tornadoes this year and now a hurricane. I couldn't live there
@@FourFish47 Tornadoes are most often something that you see several miles off in the distance (headed somewhere else). They aren't like hurricanes, that affect an entire region. In the Abilene area (several hours west of Dallas/Fort Worth) hurricanes in the Gulf tend to be the main way that we get rain (and cooler weather) pushed this far inland.
And also not January when the smallest ice storm shuts down the state XD
@@xmtryanxthis is not true. I live in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Ice storms shut us down because we don't have the equipment to clear the roads and make the area safe. This is logical because we only have two or three ice days in a year or three. Why would we have snow plows that we use every 3 years once. So when a freak ice storm hits Texas we have to shut down and wait it through. How many people in the Northwest have air conditioners? Very few so when they got hit by a heatwave and people were suffering no one in Texas was pointing their finger and say stupid idiots why don't you have an air conditioner. Because they usually don't need one so why would they invest in one. I am so sick of northerners poking us because we're not ready for ice storms. But what the hell would be ready for ice storms when we get them so rarely. We're going to keep ice plows stuck in garages for 8 years and costing the tax payer million of dollars?!
It's funny to Europeans that we're so obsessed with air conditioning, but I live in California and just last week in the city I live in a man died because his AC went out and he suffered a heat stroke in his own house. He was rushed to the hospital where he died due to complications from the heat. It's no joke that we literally NEED air conditioning to survive during the hottest months of the year.
I've got a friend out there, and we're always talking about our weather extremes.
I live in Pennsylvania, so I make the joke that I'm a mountain goat and could never survive in such brutal heat. Californian heat scares me.
It’s the international version of “let them eat cake” they can’t comprehend the heat here and so laugh at the fact we take so much focus on keeping our homes cool.
Last year I stayed at a bed and breakfast in Denver, and it was quite hot in my room on the third floor. I asked the owner about it, and he mentioned that the previous guests were some Germans who demanded the AC be turned off even though it was 85F inside. Anything to avoid having cold air being blown on you, I guess 😂
Eastern Washington. We regularly hit high 90's to triple digits. Winters can get brutal too. You can have tons of snow, you can have subzero temperatures (hit -16º with freezing winds too a couple years ago), or it can be just above freezing in the day causing it to melt then freeze into sheets of ice overnight. Only good part is we dodge all the hurricanes, big earthquakes, tornadoes, etc.
This summer has been really hot in Washington state. @@lucidcharade12
The best time to visit the USA is mid-to-late spring or mid-fall. It’s neither too hot nor too cold, plants are blooming, and there are festivals and farmers markets going on.
I did a summer forensics camp at the local college when I was 15 during the summer. One of the teachers that ran it was Greek and he invited a bunch of students from Greece to come and participate. There were 4 camps running at one time with a total of 45 kids all together. 30 of those kids were Greek. My forensics camp had I think 7 in total including me but all 4 camps would eat together and we went on a couple field trips as well for the hell of it. In southwest Louisiana in the month of June, it’s normal to have a range in the 80s-100s throughout the day with a humidity in the 90s%. So many of the Greek kids complained that it felt like they were breathing water and the staff had to make sure to keep sports drinks and water bottles well stocked. The other local kids and I would be wearing jeans and t-shirts while being maybe a bit sweaty while the other kids were wearing tank tops and shorts and on the verge of heat stroke if we walked between buildings through the outside.
There's a saying in the Midwest "it's not the heat, it's the humidity" 100° and dry isn't so bad. But the humidity in the Midwest makes it feel like it's 120°+. Your sweat can't evaporate and it's very deadly. It's called wet bulb.
In Central Illinois years ago we all thought the heat had broken and we were enjoying being outside. Come to find out it was 100° but the humidity was very low. It is true. It is the humidity.
It’s true. Central Illinois is is muggiest hellhole sometimes, but dry heat at higher temperatures isn’t so bad.
There are times when I check the weather in Orlando, Florida and compare it to my town in Iowa. There are many times where the humidty and dew point here in Iowa are way higher than Florida. Florida!
Please stop calling it the Midwest when you're East of the Mississippi. The Mississippi River is over 100 miles east of the actual middle of the country. It's not 1812 Midwest but a 1000 miles east.
I'm in Wisconsin, a couple years ago I took my harley south to Texas and New Mexico on a trip in July when it was about 110 when I was there. I was sweaty in full motorcycle gear but honestly pretty okay with it because it was a dry heat. In Wisconsin I'm used to a week or two of 100 degrees with like 80% humidity and that feels worse. At work every year we have people on the work floor pass out from the heat, mostly from doing stupid stuff like drinking energy drinks instead of water all day.
Texan here. Do not come in August. The best months would be March and April where the highs are only around 77° F (25°C). That is also when the wildflowers, including blue bonnets (the state flower), are blooming.
Totally agree. Plus the wild flowers are gorgeous. Texas is an AWESOME state. Whatever you decide make sure to drink water.
@@aku210 You won't get fall color like other states but October is acceptable too. Now September is still beach weather. Please don't go hiking anywhere in Texas during the summer!
May isn't too bad
I agree, that the best time to visit the southern states would be March and April. Bonus you can visit Louisiana for Mardi Gras! But if you do you better make reservations very far in advance.
Unless you’re in south Texas where the highs are ~98 F 🥲 definitely stay away from the tip
Texan here. Late August/early September is hottest time you can come. Last year we managed to have a 55 day long streak of temps exceeding 100° with the record being 79 in 2011. If you want "comfortable" temps you wanna visit from late March to May or in October.
I need you to understand that not only could we bake cookies in our cars, but our cars sometimes MELT
I remember MULTIPLE childhood summers, melting holes through my shoes walking outside for 10-15 min and the record in my state is only 111°
I checked the weather here in Phoenix Arizona the moment you asked if 100° is that common; it’s currently 101°F at 10am and it’s gonna be a high of 115°F later
heck yeah easy it usually above 100 all night where im at.
I think people forget that although 1 of the top 10 hottest places are in North Africa, 7 are in the Middle East, Iran, and in Pakistan, and 1 is in Mexico, the actual #1 hottest place on Earth, based on highest recorded temperature and a average temperature over 110 F, is not in the Sahara, in the tropics. In Nambia, or in Arabia. It’s in Southern California, 3 hours drive from LA, and an hour from Las Vegas.
Death Valley earned the name damnit!
Theres a reason it's called Death Valley and Baker has the tallest thermometer in the world.
@@MegasXaos It really did. Many settlers traversing the area never made it out. A lot of the features in the area have similarly ominous names, and each and every single one was earned.
Arizona has a crazy record that you might not believe
1994: Highest temperature recorded in
Arizona 128°F/53.3°C
2020: 145 consecutive days above
100°F/37.7°C
2023: 55 consecutive days above
110°F/43.3°C
Some advice for you if you visit any state when its hot is to avoid touching things outside. Don't go for hikes but if you do the best time is around 5:00am up until 10:00am at the most and be careful for venomous animals and dangerous plants. Longsleeved thin clothes are very good. MOST IMPORTANT- drink a lot of water throughout the day and try to stay in the shade
Dallas, TX here. We have fans set up for our livestock, just to help them out. Yes, lots of shade, tons of water options, including a pool that our chickens stand in to cool their legs, bigger pools for the bigger animals to get in, not just drink. Why? After you lose an animal because it's so hot & humid, you get a different perspective. 105°F is nothing to play with.
I like how the southwest isn’t mentioned much because 110+ degree weather for 50 straight days is average here. We’d have to venture into the 120’s to have it be considered a heat wave 😂
This is what I was thinking I live in El Paso and its basically 95 by mid april and 100+ from may to september lol
Still southern part of America regardles of not saying the 'west' part. I automatically think of Texas, Arizona etc when talking about the heat in the south. It's officially hot across the board!
@@IcerinAlaska49I used to live in AZ, now live in TX. Arizona can keep their heat no thank you. Lol
And the northwest is only better cause we have winter. Downside is i have personally seen people get hypothermia and heatstroke in the same day due to underestimating what hot summers and cold winters means for spring weather.
6 years in Vegas. If it was over 115 then it was hot.
Floridian here. The only reason it doesn't get quit as hit as the midwest US is because shielded by a layer of moisture in the air so thick, you can feel it as you walk and breathe. So, while it may keep up at 95 to 105 F, it feels like swimming through the sweat of everyone around you.
Georgian here, we call it "boiling soup air" because there is no breeze, an ocean of water in the air, and the sun just turned the nob to quick boil on the stove
@@mrprism5382 I love that. Might have to borrow that one.
I live in the Missouri bootheel, and the air gets so heavy it’s difficult to breathe. The area used to be mostly swamp and while the swamp ecosystem has been gotten rid of the humidity has most certainly not.
It’s so weird to describe to people who haven’t experienced it. It’s like the air is starting to become solid and your lungs just reject it.
Midwest doesn't usually get in the 100s
@@thelastant8366it did yesterday here in Indiana. It's not for months at a time but at least a couple weeks every year it'll hit 100+. Soon it'll be 0° and raining for some reason.
As someone from Oregon, I went to Texas in August once. It was like 90 degrees, which is "not too bad." On paper. But the HUMIDITY made that temperature absolutely unbearable. Being outside was deadly. We returned to Portland in the middle of a 102-degree heat wave, and a Portland 102 felt COOL AND REFESHING after Texas 90. This year already, we had almost a week of 100+ highs back to back in Yakima Washington. Texas is worse.
If 40C with low humidity is exotic to you, Texas in August will be literally dangerous.
That's why we invented air conditioning.
DO NOT go to the South in August. It can be very hot and hurricane season is usuallyJune thru November. You will likely book your reservations early to save money, and you do not want to be worrying about hurricanes during your vacation.
There was a heat wave in Chicago in 1995 That peaked at 106 degrees, but with high humidity. More than 700 people died over a 5 day period. The concrete and asphault in major cities hols the heat so that it does not cool off at night.
The Chicago Morgue that year had to buy a fleet of refrigerator trucks to store the bodies in. I worked near LaGrou transport, they were the ones that sold the trailers. They couldn't lend them as they were for food, and after having the bodies in them........
Yes, heat kills people here without aircon.
I don't live in cities, guess why?
Yeah August is the worst time to visit most if the U.S. Hawaii and alaska are still visitable tho
Hurricane season is the worst in September and October, both are months that are actually okay in the South. It'll be warm in comparison but not unbearable. But you should prepare to adjust plans around a potential hurricane if you're near a coast.
I'd recommend that over spring time storms which bring tornadoes.
People make fun of the US or are surprised that in some states there's air conditioning but the reality is in some places in California, Arizona, Las Vegas people die from the heat without it. And in older cities like Chicago where it doesn't get as hot it's still old buildings without AC and you have seniors who are living in them and it's dangerous for them. Here in Cali we have a heat wave now and they warn us about not walking dogs cause their feet will burn on the ground.
People make fun of US for having AC? That was a thing?😂
@@hebercluff1665 The Europoors think we're too stupid to open a window and blame us for killing the environment due to the energy cost of air conditioning. Being completely ignorant to the fact opening a window would make it worse and if their entire continent went fully carbon neutral tomorrow it would have no impact towards offsetting the amount of pollution pumped out by China and India.
Europeans don't realize that half of the US is farther South than France and Italy. The US South is about as far South as Northern Egypt. This might be why the Brits keep trying to visit Texas.
Even the Midwest will get high 90s and triple digits with humidity hovering just below raining. We got record high in June and had to have cooling shelters open.
I grew up south Alabama with no AC. I never actually adapted to it. I was miserable in the summers.
On texas summers it is a sport to see who can cook an egg on the sidewalk the fastest
Last year we were in the heat dome. A road exploded. A road literally got so hot it broke up and pieces went everywhere. A bunch of cows died and a nursing home had to be evacuated… and our air conditioning also broke! It was Not Fun, I was constantly using a spray bottle on myself. (I live in southeast missouri in the Bootheel if anyone is interested)
Andre, we are not exaggerating when we say it's too hot in Texas in the summer. July and August are the hottest months of the year. Texas gets triple digit temperatures at that time of the year. I am from Texas and speak from experience. The first time you walk out into weather that hot it will suddenly feel like you can't breath as the hot air gets into your face and lungs. The roads and sidewalks are hot enough to melt the bottoms of a cheap pair of shoes. If you are foolish enough to go to Texas in the summer then at least make sure you always have a big cup of ice water with you. Always wear a hat and sun block while outside. It's very easy to overheat while outside walking around. When you travel to the US, go to the southern states in the early spring and autumn. Visit the northern states in the summer and early autumn. Winter in Florida.
Man it's been the coolest summer in years this year. Barely hit 100 at all. Last summer was over 108 like every day.
My mom had an art show in Dallas In August when I was young. Hyatt regency (the mirror building that looks like steps and the tower with the ball. It had a rooftop pool and I went up there and burned the bottom of my feet because I am from Michigan and didn’t know about the hellish heat! The pool was like a hot tub. Gorgeous hotel and insanely beautiful city, but HOT af! I spent the ride home (yes we drove) with a sheet around my badly burned body. I was only out there for one hour but I didn’t know about spf (this was the early 80s). Texas is amazing, but that heat is NO JOKE!
@@guywithalltheanswers6942 last years summer was by far worse. it was 100 or over for like a month here in Oklahoma
@@beesnort3163 Yea if you don't wear a jacket in the cold you will get frostbitten too. Just have to wear shoes outside and sunscreen if you want to stay out an hour or more.
Never never go to Texas in The summer! You will be so miserable. Or probably anywhere in the south except San Diego.
Good morning! Texan here, reporting in. It's 7am and it's already 79f (26c) and 94% humidity. By 10am it'll hit 100f (38c).By 1pm it'll be about 103f (39c). Today is going to be a cool day. This time last year I was working on a crew building a utility scale solar farm. The temp topped out at 118f (48c) and 96% humidity. Yes, we kept working. No, it wasn't fun. Everyone on the crew was drinking about 400 fl oz (12l) of water a day and we were all still on the verge of dehydration. Having also lived in Alaska and endured the other end of the spectrum, I have nothing but respect for anyone who can endure extreme temps. That being said, I advise caution for anyone entering a new climate for the first time. It can, and will, kill you if you're unprepared.
Crazy MS doesnt have that much variety. We are at 89 at 7 and by noon we are around 103.
I recommend April or October for Texas. Me? I would go in December to be safe.
working outdoors in 114 at 96% *has* to be a labor law violation
Look up “wet blub”
Yeah. As someone who grew up in Michigan, I thought I was going to die when I passed through Arizona in the summertime with the air conditioner broken in my car 😂
@@jessicablack9960 holy shit you lived?
It hit 100 degrees in Pennsylvania last week while I was on a road trip with friends. Even at 80+mph with the windows down, the air was stifling. Our A/C was working overtime too.
The gulf of Mexico makes the high heat feel even worse. I was in Wyoming and South Dakota and it was 112°F, but it felt better that the high 80s in Kentucky a few days later. Humidity is no joke.
Please don't fall into the trap of thinking that you can easily go from New York to Texas without flying there. It's 1,739 miles/2,799 kilometers between NYC and Austin via driving. Most Americans spend 2 hours driving to work and back every day. The country is massive.
47C is relatively common for at least one week in August in Texas. It usually sits around 42-43C. Be careful if you do decide to visit.
Maybe in the hottest parts of the state it's that hot. But during last half of July and all of August, he'll probably see 41C (106F) at most, but certainly most days are above 37.7C (100F)
I hate driving so much, I don't think I've had a job where I had to drive more than 40 minutes, and most I've had were closer to 18.
I always suggest to my European friend that the best way to visit the States, and really experience it, is to land on the coast, rent a car, and drive across the country. Avoiding the interstates as much as possible.
@@RickZackExploreOffroad True, but did you also tell them that will take them a few years?
@@MegasXaos I didn't suggest that they walk across the country.
You can drive from NYC to LA in three days.
Hello, Montanan here! Yes, you are correct that we get a lot of snow, but our climate is one of the most extreme in the world. We are currently experiencing a heat wave where temperatures will likely go above 100F for many parts of the state for the next few days, so we experience both very hot and very cold.
Also, the greatest temperature change in 24 hours occurred in Loma, Montana on January 15, 1972. The temperature rose exactly 103 degrees, from -54 degrees Fahrenheit to 49 degrees. This is the world record for a 24-hour temperature change. Not only that, we also have the record for the biggest snowflake ever recorded, at 15 inches (38 centimeters) near Missoula, Montana in January of 1887!
same heat wave has highs persistently >90f in areas around seattle (tho not in - temps are usually cooler in that city than in surrounding areas)
Objection are u anywhere near plains montana! Thought about relocating there due to family ties! Hear they don't get much snow? There east of Thompson falls!
Yeah, but you get to live in MONTANA! I have always wanted to go, have had friends that have and they say it is literally paradise! So boo hoo! Jk jk I’m just saying your state is INCREDIBLY Beautiful!❤❤❤
@beesnort3163 I thought about moving to plains montana due to family ties but montanans even relations don't want outsiders much!
@@oldfogey4679 I am sure it is because outsiders and too many people would most certainly ruin the beauty.
Want to also add that the upper Midwest, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Minnesota (which I live in the north western corner of) regularly hit 90+ F in summer months and then drop -30F in winter. I've personally been in temps reaching -45F before you factor windchill for a few days in a row and I work outside.
Lifelong Texan here. I don't consider it officially hot until I get burned by my steering wheel or seat belt in the car during the summer. That usually starts happening in mid-June and can last all the way through to late September, though we have been really lucky this summer and only just now in mid-August are starting to consistently reach over 100 every day. Last summer, we went months without rain and had 45+ days over 100 in a row. A few years ago, I had to replace the cell phone holder on the dash of my car because it started to melt. :)
The problem with Southern heat over Western heat (Arizona, Nevada, California...) is the humidity. Your body cools via evaporation of sweat but the higher the humidity, the slower the rate of evaporation. So a dry heat is more tolerable since your body can cool itself. In the humidity, you cannot cool yourself so your only option is to go slow. This is why the South moves more slowly than the rest of the country. You have to go slow or die. I live in Mississippi (very humid) but I lived in Texas for a little while (not as humid). There are hardly any trees because they cannot survive. If trees cannot survive, you will struggle as well. To add insult to injury, no trees = no shade so you get heat from exposure to direct sun in addition to the ambient temperature. Try to avoid the South in July and August if possible.
Im a desert kid, last summer i finally visited the south when i saw some family. I felt like i was trying to breath in a sanna.
i hate hot and humid when they are combined it feels like torture
@@kurotsuki7427 bet you learned what they mean when they say "swamp ass" real quick
Maybe now you'll understand Ice Cubes in drinks. Drive through Iowa and Nebraska in the summer when there's no shade for hundreds of miles. You'll love it.
It's a dry heat.
Been in Grand Island on the 4th of July a few times with 98⁰F and 98% humidity...miserable! Not a dry heat!!
Dry heat=roasting
Wet heat=sauna
Both are still miserable. 😩🥵
😂 dry heat 😅 at 119°, it just hurts
@@doubler8684 I have been at a summer camp just south of GI right on the river. 109 in the shade. No A/C in sight for the whole week.
Iowa a dry heat? Iowa be humid
Minneasota here! This place is truly nuts. with peak snowfall occurring in 1996 with 46 inches in a single storm, and the lowest temperature in the same year at -60*f. We also have one of the wildest temperature ranges, with a single day back in 1970 giving one area a whopping 74 degree temperature swing, and a usual year between -25 and 105*
You’d think all of our 11’000+ registered lakes would help stabilize our climate, but nope
Even this year in March we had several days where it flip flopped between the 70s to the 20s or 30s. Truly wild!
I remember that storm. The electricity was out for 2 weeks. Luckily, we didn't have electric heat or stove, and since it was winter, no need to worry about losing the refrigerator. Candles and oil lamps for everything. It was so much fun!
Death valley has that name for a reason. It's a miserable place in the summer; empty and flat and dry and HOT. There's a freeway going right through it. Once drove it in summer in a car with broken AC. Our parents made sure there was plenty of ice to go around, but I still remember how my legs stuck to the vinyl seats.
what a lot of people don't realize is that most of the US is at lower latitudes then most of Europe. Maine is at the same latitude as Milan, Italy and Washington State is at the same latitude as France. Kansas the middlepoint of the US is the same latitude as Spain. Weather patterns are different of course due to a number of factors but something to consider.
Also very significant is that all of western Europe, including Scandinavia, is peninsular, so that the ocean or seas moderate the weather, apart from the specific effects of the Gulf Stream. Only when you get east of the Alps do you get a true continental climate. On the other hand, most of North America has a continental climate (meaning minimal moderation by the presence of the ocean).
Meanwhile, that same Gulf Stream is what keeeps the British weather mild (and wet!), and Northern Scotland and Scandinavia even liveable in the winter months, as they are on the same latitude as Labrador. @@thomasmacdiarmid8251
Good explanation. The US is a southern, hot climate with continental extremes.
Lebanon Kansas is the geographic center of the contiguous states
True. NYC is at the same latitude as Madrid.
A decade or so ago there was a heatwave in France and a bunch of people died. In the US when the news covered that, a lot of American's didn't believe it, thought it was fake because in quite a few places over here, temperatures get hotter than in that heatwave every summer. The people over there just didn't know how to cope with the heat properly since they'd never encountered it. Here are a few things that could save your life:
1. Drink water, avoid drinks with sugar, caffeine or alcohol. Those three things _dehydrate_ you.
2. If you have been sweating a lot, eat some slightly salty snacks. Your body uses salt to help regulate water in your body, but too much salt is bad too. So eating a small handful of something like chips (crisps) or something similar WITH a big glass of water can help give your body more of what it used up trying to cool you down with sweat.
3. If you've been out in the sun for many hours without drinking *_DO NO_* drink something super cold. Lowering your body temperature too quickly can be fatal. I would bet money that many of the deaths in France from their heatwave was from heatstroke, which can be caused by doing exactly that. Drinking something super cold while the body is overheated. You need to drink warm or room temperature water at first until you're core temperature has lowered.
If you only *have* cold, you have to let it warm up a bit first, put it in the sun a while or something so that it rises in temperature. I know it sucks to let something cold warm up when you would rather drink it cold but, better a little less refreshed than _dead._
Note on the salt point: sodium is important, but potassium and magnesium are also super important. If you are actually sweating a ton, Gatorade is the way to go. It is literally sweat with a little bit of sugar to help it absorb in the gut. Other electrolyte drinks have different balances, so you need to drink more to get the same benefits. If you don't actually need an electrolyte drink, though, steer clear of it because all you're doing is making your kidneys work harder and adding yet more sugar to your diet
Or you could just get some water from the tap! That's what we do.
The temperature in southern Florida in direct sunlight is 104°F around noon everyday July - September. Also we have to work outside during this heat as well. Heat Stroke is all too real.
last year in texas we had like 2 months straight of daily 100F+ temps. and very very little rain. that was pretty brutal. but this summer has been a lot milder overall, even though 95-100 is still the norm.
I wouldn’t talk you out of going to texas in august but you absolutely must be prepared for the heat. don’t plan to do a lot outside especially during the day, and in most places it’s still hot at night. drink plenty of fluids. always have an option to go inside for some nice air conditioning. a couple days is really all you’d need to make it an *experience* 😂
personally I think april/may is the best time here, maybe march if you still want some cooler temps. things are really green and colorful, we actually get rain more than once a month. it’s pleasant all day long. gotta watch out for the crazy thunderstorms though. and certain parts get more than their fair share of tornados 😅
Most people don’t realize it, but Fahrenheit is based on the human ability to survive, if it drops below 0° people start freezing to death if it goes above 100 people start baking
It's why I defend Fahrenheit lol. I understand it's worse for scientific purposes, but for civilian purposes it's so much more visually appealing if that makes sense. Like most states can have weather anywhere between 0 and 100 and it's a great scale for telling you exactly what it's going to be like outside.
@@wyomingptt i 100% agree
Zero was the coldest temperature he could make in a lab. 100 was his wife's temperature.
32 Is freezing
bUt WaTeR fReEzInG aNd BoIlInG
117F is common high in the summer in the deserts here in the US, I live in New Mexico, a desert as well. That's why every house and store is equipped with blasting AC and it's common to give ice water and allow people to just stand in businesses to cool down. It saves lives.
But it's a dry heat. /s
@Nerdygoddess dry heat still kills, and walking in a literal oven, your skin feels like it's burning real time. I lived in humidity in New York, both are terrible, don't discount dry heat.
@@kays4290 They put /s at the end of their comment which indicates that it was sarcasm.
@dfcd1432 Ahh...thank you for the explanation
I lived in New Mexico the vast majority of my life as recent as 6 years ago. The summers were bad and dangerous, but I’d take it over the humidity I live in now in a heartbeat. In a dry heat shade makes enough difference on its own; combine that with A/C and cold water and you barely even notice it. High 90s in 100% humidity is impossible to escape. Shade, cold water? Doesn’t matter, you can’t escape the heat without tons of A/C, and even then you’ll still feel it.
Average summer temps in Southern California is 105-110 during the day, and 90-100 during the night.
I live in New Hampshire. We have relatively moderate weather for the US. Our summers sit around 80°F - 90°F and can spike to ~100°F. NH also has lots of lakes ponds and rivers, about 17 miles of coast line, and plenty more available in its neighboring states Maine and Massachusetts. It's also mostly covered in forest, so the heat isn't too difficult to remedy.
In winter (my personal favorite), it will usually sit around 20°F and can drop down into the low negatives, or sometimes spike up to 40°F (gross). Along with our snow, which lately we haven't been getting a lot of due too unusually warm winter temperatures, (just a few feet per year), but we have a history of getting multipl feet of snow per storm and several feet throughout the year.
Our springs are usually wet, and theres a bit of flooding from the combination of snow melt off and rain, but the tempuratures are nice, usually around 50°F to 70°F and a lot of people here like to play in the mud with offroad vehicles. We also have a decent growing season because of it.
However, most peoples favorite season in NH and most of New England would have to be Autumn. Similar temperatures to spring usually ranging from 50°F to 60°F, tipically accompanied by a cool breeze, some of the most beautiful foliage in the world when the leaves start changing colors, along with all of the fall harvests and festivals.
I also lived in Atlanta Georgia for a while. That City gets so hot that its required by law that there must be an AC installed in any rental unit, and the windows literally get so hot they'll burn you if you touch the glass. I remember one day my car was parked literally 10 feet from the ice cold ACed threshhold of my appartment building, and in the time it took me to walk to my car, open the door, grab something from the door, and walk back to the building, i had soaked myself in sweat. The south is not for the weak. 😂
Lived all over this country.
You never get used to the heat/humidity along the gulf of mexico. You learn to endure but its never unnoticeable.
Ive worked outside in temps around 105 in Florida with humidity sitting around 80% (the heat index or "what it feels like" was 122)
If you arent accustomed to high temperature areas do not go in the middle of summer. Go early spring or mid fall. Get your bearings with cooler temps around 85-95 midday instead of pushing 100+
And most people here are correct, most southerners keep their home ac around 72-75. That feels cool and refreshing.
Can confirm as my ac currently sits at 77. Side note, my ac unit is 20 years old so how tf is it still running. In Florida of all places also.
Moved to FL from GA a few years ago and I still can't stand the summers here, its absurd
@@anneke_yep2407Florida Men are crazy, not heartless.
Phoenix Arizona
1. 122 (26 Jun 1990)
2. 121 (28 Jul 1995)
3. 120 (25 Jun 1990)
4. 119 (25 Jul 2023) 119 (20 Jul 2023 and 2 other times)
As of July 5, 2024, Phoenix, Arizona had recorded 83 days of 115°F or higher in the last 20 years, compared to 86 days recorded between 1895 and 2004. In 2023, Phoenix broke the record for the most 115°F days in a year, reaching 115°F 15 times.
I am from Texas but I have lived in Phoenix and Las Vegas. The heat is different. It's dry in Arizona and Nevada. It was easier for me to cool off in the shade and cool the house. Texas has humid heat. It can have dry days but compared to Arizona and Nevada, it's very humid. A different kind of heat. It is harder to cool off in.
@heathersims8253 I'm from Florida and yes, Humidity plus heat is soooo much worse.
Phoenix is a monument to man's arrogance.
That being said, Texan and Florida-man in the other comments are correct. I'd take a dry 115 over the 95 degree swamp in Florida if I had to pick.
I live in the U.S. the state of Connecticut which neighbors new york and i can assure you the northern states are not all cold. Last year for probably a month it was 85-90 degrees Fahrenheit every day. And this summer its been between 80-90 most days this whole month. Some states that border Canada can be more chilly but in general in the summer all the state can get fairly hot.
As someone who has lived in both New York and New Mexico, I would definitely say that while New Mexico is obviously hotter, with the hottest temp I ever experienced being 116, I actually have a harder time with summer in New York, because of the humidity. I think the best way to describe New York would be that we have a larger range of temperatures. In the winter, it can get very cold, and it snows A LOT, and the closer you get to the Great Lakes, the more snow you get. However, in the summer, it can get pretty hot, mid 80s is probably what a regular summer day looks like, but 90s weather is not unheard of. Although, like I said, the humidity makes it sooooo much worse. Now, this isn't even remotely comparable to the south, and I couldn't imagine living there with temps almost as high as New Mexico, and humidity worse than water. Also, I have been to Texas in August (although this was Lubbock, which isn't nearly as humid as east Texas), and it is not fun, if you want to visit Texas, do it in the spring or fall, I would recommend spring, however if you plan on spending a fair amount of time in New York, the fall is beautiful.
Spring and Fall are the best for hot areas of the US
Or if it’s Arizona come during the winter it’s normally 35F-65F from November - February. I grew up and live in AZ. I want to move to Palmer Alaska since it’s the same weather as Flagstaff AZ. I’ve found out I live the cold. I’d rather freeze to death then die of heat. And I’ve almost done both so I’m speaking from experience
I used to have a spring and fall pass for the county fair. You spring over the fence and fall on the other side.
Only if you like hot!
March and October for Texas
As a Texan, I would not come here in August. I’d come in the spring, when it’s only in the 80s and the wildflowers are out.
The blue bells are worth doing to see.
So I am from Wisconsin, I actually live about an hours drive from where Lawrence lives (if he's still living in the Chicago area, and in the US, and I know it is different in the UK and Europe, an hour drive is considered a short trip, to the point that many Americans consider a 1 hour commute to work to be normal). For the Midwest, it is typical that we get 1-3 weeks of 90+ degree weather, typically around the June-July time frame, and 1-3 weeks of double-digit negatives, last year we had -17F degree weather for 2 weeks.
Texas, by contrast, is worse in the heat department. I was sent there while I was in the military, and despite doing exercises at 0400, by 0430, you could actively see your sweat evaporating in billowing clouds, and this was in February, a "winter" month. Heat exhaustion was common, and 90 degree days where the norm. Going in August, while you still have the Summer heat, but now with hurricanes, is not advisable. Now everyone has different preferences, being a Midwesterner, you could lock me in a freezer and I would be chipper about getting out of the heat, but Texas is a whole other beast.
Also if you visit Texas, New Orleans isn't too far away, and the Historic city center gives an interesting look at what happens when you put French criminals in a swamp.
In 2009, I did a Two-a-day that was 107°F. For those who aren't American. Two-a-day is a football practice where you have 2 practices a day. They go from 7am -3pm.
I live in South Louisiana... if it's not over 100*F, then it's not summer yet... plus we have 98% humidity year round... if you're not from here, don't visit until late Autumn or Winter and get out by early Spring...
also, more people die from heat than from cold in the U.S. and many states require A/C in vehicles as law... and not having A/C for elderly in a home is considered 'elder abuse'....
There was a TV reporter in Indiana whose charity of choice was making sure old people all had box fans in the summer.
I spent a summer in New Orleans as a 16 yr old (1972). It was one of the most miserable summers of my life. The heat was intense, but being from Oklahoma it wasn't much worse than I was used to. However, combined with outrageous humidity, the ability to function without AC just didn't exist. It was common practice for businesses to open from 4:00-6:00 am and close shop from 12:00-2:00 pm!
What part, also from south la
I live in middle Georgia right now, but I grew up in south Florida.
I think we can all agree that the worst heat is that one right before a thunderstorm hits.
My manager lives in Louisiana. I was telling her about me replacing my HVAC (I live in Ohio). She was telling me how a few years ago her AC stopped working in summer. She was like “it was pure misery” lol. I couldn’t even imagine.
Andre, you looked puzzled at that newspaper headline. The "Twin Cities" are Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota. The Mississippi river runs more or less between them. You don't realize when you leave one and enter the other unless you see a road sign. Minneapolis is slightly larger. St. Paul has the State Capitol.
@@user-oh2hs6jh5x He is so damn clueless about the US that it hurts. His channel name also makes people to believe that all Europeans are idiots. Yes, I know that many people hate the US and know almost nothing about it. But for someone who claims to love it, these videos seem unbelievable.I can't wait to see him visiting, he will be a mouthbreather the whole trip.
For the past 2-3 weeks, it's been over 100° in Alabama and only just cooled down, getting below 100° yesterday. I had forgotten a make-up pallet on my dashboard and it's so warped now, every single individual lil eyeshadow pallets are poppin out and it will never lay flat again. I wish I could post a pic of how warped it is due to how hot is was 😶🥵☠️
A common phrase in Florida is "it's not the heat that will get you, it's the humidity.". Just the other day, it was a normal 95f/37c, but because of the humidity, the weather app also tells you what the weather "feels like" and it was 107f/41.6c. That is just a normal summer day here, and is like that at least 6 months of the year. I wouldn't recommend coming to any US state that is California, Texas, Kansas, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, or the whole Southeast quadrant from North Carolina South unless it is around March or October. It will bee 95f/37c++ more days than not. For the Northeastern states like New York, Maine, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, I would not recommend going in October-February. It gets below freezing (32f/0)c in the height of winter very often.
Death Valley gets VERY hot, in early 90s in one of many trips through there, we were driving through it from Vegas to Bishop in the middle of July with a broken radiator, so no AC. The heat was excruciating and we only survived due to knowing that keeping our core temperature down was key. We stopped at every market/convenience store we came across to eat ice cream and other frozen food/drinks. AA batteries for handheld fans would overheat in seconds, which was the length of time before they'd stop working. The heat can reach 130-140 in some parts.
Well, not 140°. The hottest it's ever been in Death Valley was 133°F at Furnace Creek. That was just a couple years ago.
@@RabblesTheBinx actually 134 is the hottest it's gotten if I'm correct.
I mean, we just had some people die in the area this year...hot is hot, and the person wasn't sure what the record was, but recalled it was somewhere between 130 and 140.
@@aj383 yeah, as I said, there's one time as a kid when my family drove through Death Valley with a broken radiator. Now we have been to Death Valley many times before this, in fact my father was a National Geographic photographer in the 70s and 80s, with one of the last stories he did for them was on the California Desert in the early 80s. It's from past experiences and knowledge of the area that we were able to survive this trip without ac in the middle of July. There's also a reason why they call it Death Valley, way back before cars, it was considered a death sentence to try crossing it.
Just yesterday, it was reported that a Belgian tourist was, for some reason, wearing flip flops in Death Valley. They either broke, or he lost them, and he ended up barefoot in the sand dunes. That resulted in third-degree burns with rangers reporting that his skin had "melted off his feet". They wanted to airlift him to a burn center, but helicopters can't get enough lift when the air is that hot. So they instead needed to take him by ambulance to higher ground where the temperature was 109°F and thus accessible by helicopter.
In Oklahoma, we use a heat index that measures humidity and heat to give a "feels like" temperature. So sometimes it's 109 but feels like 118. For weeks.
That term is so stupid, anything past 100 feels the same TOO FKNG HOT to tell the difference
It’s called a “wet bulb temperature”.
@@fayewood1377 Oh, I can tell the difference. Because the hotter it is, the more like death I feel.
@@fayewood1377 Oh i can assure you, 115 before the humidity is factored in blows a lot more dick than 101 after accounting for humidity.
@@StryderK "Feels like" and WBT are different. WBT temperature will always be lower because the thermometer is wrapped in wet cloth. (I used to maintain a WBT station when I was in the Army.)
Andre, dont forget about the heat index. Just recently it was 89°F/31.6°C here in East Tennessee (southeastern USA, not as south as Louisiana/Texas/Alabama) but the real feel (i.e what it feels like) was 108°F/42°C. High humidity is what made it feel so miserable. Don't go in the summer. If you want to enjoy your vacation, don't go. Wait for spring or fall.
Please know that people who are not used to high temperatures or high humidity get sick faster and don't even realize it until it's too late. Heat exhaustion will kill.
That 117 degree temperature in East St.Louis should have a note on it. E.St.L. sits in the river valley where the air stagnates and gets moist from the Mississippi River running right next door, and the valley covered in crops. It ain’t no picnic during a normal summer………
They’ve already said any state/city late September and October OR April and May. A motorcyclist traveling through Death Valley in California and Nevada, died a couple of weeks ago. The heat here is no joke. When you add humidity over 50%, it’s pure misery and often fatal.
July 7 when it was 128F, 53C. I can't imagine going there in the summer. I went in December and it was nice.
It's getting later each year, the fall temps. Buckle up, it's hurricane season and it's gonna be a busy season if we're getting hurricanes this early.
A motorcyclist died Saturday in 128F (53.3C) heat. It was too hot for the rescue helicopter to fly out to get him.
One this past weekend in Death Valley, another transported to hospital, treated and released and four treated on site.
Europeans love Death Valley and they are so unprepared for it. And deep in the Grand Canyon is as hot as Phoenix during the summer so people are dying there as well.
I'm from North-Central Florida and we've had temperatures of around 92-98°F over the last few weeks straight with like 72%-85% humidity, and its not even the hottest part of the season yet 😅
It's a kind of heat you never really get used to; you kind of just accept you'll be miserable and take measures to make sure you're safe
Edit: For context, the humidity over here has caused the development of a "Feels-Like" measurement. If its 97°F and 78% humidity, it might have a "Feels-Like" of about 105°F
NEVER underestimate the humidty and Heat of the US
I hate when the humidity gets that high, the air feels so heavy. It's like hard to breath and wet but not cool wet it's miserable.
@@brittany8002The worst part is when there's little wind, and your sweat just makes you feel more suffocated.
People from drier states underestimate FL heat because they don't truly grasp what the humidity does. Lived in FL most of my life, now I live out in CO. We hit 96°F today and when I say it felt like a comfortable FL low-80s.
Have friends who moved from FL to Arizona, it gets crazy hot out there, +110°F even at night. They consistently say they'd still choose it over FL's humid heat any day.
Until you've experienced it there's just no explaining the heat of a swamp to someone.
I’m from California in the Central Valley. 110+ days are not unusual and I will absolutely admit, I used to scoff at people making such a big deal about humidity when we’re here and it’s 115. But I traveled to the right places at the right times of year and realized exactly how wrong I was. I agree. We do underestimate it.
Lived in tropical and sub tropical climates my whole life, FL, CA, and even Guam. Humidity is something no one should ever underestimate, Dry heat is nasty, but humid heat, like what I've lived through from FL and to a lesser degree in Guam it's no small thing to scoff at. Keep in mind both Guam and Florida are near the equatorial line. Only reason Guam doesnt get as oppressively hot is the constant sea breeze the entire island enjoys from being smaller than even Rhode Island.
I live in the Midwest, and it’s pretty much an every year thing where we get a few days in July/aug where the highs are over 100*F (38*C). And just a few months later, there’s a week usually in early feb where the high is -10*F (-23*C). And when it’s that cold, the wind is an even bigger problem cuz it makes it feel colder. Last time I believe the real-feel outside was -25*F (-32*C). But we all know how to deal with it, you stay your ass inside and keep a fire going in the winter. And in the summer, you also try to stay inside with air conditioning, but if that’s not a thing, you stay inside move as little as possible, have all the fans going, and drink ice cold drinks or eat ice cream…usually the temps in the summer drop at night enough to comfortably sleep but not always.
In Minnesota (a notoriously cold state) has had a 100*F difference (from 70 to -30) within a 48 hour period. There are sometimes a week at a time in the summer where the temperature stays above 100*F during the day without dropping below 80*F at night. Not often, but it happens once a summer or so. In the winter it can get down to -60*F
120 °F in Las Vegas twice this week. Over 115 °F for the last 9 days Death Valley was 130 ° F for the last 2 days
It definitely gets hot out there. I was out on the PCT (Pacific Crest Trail) hiking last year. For 2 weeks straight in Oregon and Northern California it was 100+ for 2-weeks straight. It made it dangerous to be hiking 30+ miles in that everyday when I was out there 4-months from June - October.
Vegas heat is scary. By the time you realize you’re in trouble, you are royally screwed.
I was a Military Policeman in the US Army in Germany from 1982-1985. the summer of 84 was REALLY hot for Germany, it was over 95 degrees for almost 2 weeks. Elderly Germans were dropping dead all over, they have NO air conditioning anywhere.
95 degrees sounds wonderful right now. It's blasting past 100 degrees
Well, I'm in Texas, but 95 without any mechanical cooling, that's something you have to be prepared for. They just don't have the architecture, or the ways of adapting to that in Germany. You can do it, but you have to know HOW to do it, just like living on an ice sheet. You have to know the way.
@@farvista People used to pull mattresses outside. Onto upstairs sleeping porches. To backyard decks/patios. The sleeping porch would be covered but would have large swaths of wall open to catch any breeze. If they were lucky the 'window' would have screens.
As a Texas native, August is the most miserable time to come visit us. Up here in North Central Texas you are likely to get temperatures well over 40° c as your high. South Texas won't get quite that high but the humidity will be extreme and well if anything be even more miserable.
West Texas would just bake you.
Come visit us around October or November when the summer heat has broken and you're likely to get something other than hot dry and miserable
As an American, I love your react videos, they give me an interesting perspective on things. When you eventually visit the USA, you should visit the Appalachian mountains at some point!( I’m from West Virginia) The scenery is absolutely amazing to experience and the weather doesn’t get too extreme in either direction. Everyone here is very friendly and wave at you as you pass. We also have a lot of European descendants in this area, so we have quite a unique blended culture here( Especially Irish and Italian).
He forgot the heat wave of 1980. DFW Airport recorded over 60 consecutive days with highs over 100. The hottest day was 113. You get used to it.
It's less that you get used to it and more that you have no choice but to bear it and it's too hot to burn energy making a fuss about anything. So just, whatever. One foot in front of the other and console yourself that winter is coming. At some point.
It's 102F today here in Salem, Oregon.
IKR. I am from WA, and it is 93 here. This heat wave is stupid.
103 in the Boise, Idaho area
The high temperature in Salem was 106F (41C) today. Portland was 104F. The state has been very hot (except the coastline) since July 4th. The hottest time of the day in the PNW is around 5:00 pm this time of year, which is different from most of the country.
@@pacmanc8103 I didn't realize it got that hot today. I just looked at my phone right before I left the comment. Thank God for air conditioning.
@@boobooq88 Yesterday had an insane weather, but Louisiana is laughing at us for understanding their situation.
Texan here, don't visit midsummer. Last year and the year before, the corn literally burned on the stalk. My spinach literally boiled in the fields. I mean the leaves turned dark and spongy as if they had been boiled for about 4 miniutes. In 2022 we had 2 months where the weather didn't dip below 105. It wad drier than usual so while the greenery didn't like it, it wasn't as bad as you'd think because we weren't soaking in our sweat as much as usual in the normally crazy central texas humidity. We get freezes in the winter two and the most extreme weather I've been through had three 50+° temperature swings in one day, it was a tornado day though, that's how tonadoes form, hot weather below, cold above, they toilet bowl as they switch positions and you get twisters tearing through the place.
Skip summer unless you're from a hot country. Texas is truly incredibly beautiful in the spring and fall though after the first rains of each, this is my little slice of heaven that I love to show of for the rest of the season. Texas renfest in particular is a wonderful time.
I've learned a hack for converting temperatures from imperial to metric and back.
Begin at the point water freezes (0°C = 32°F).
For every +/-5°C = +/-9°F.
So 5°C will equal 41°F, then 10°C will equal 50°F. 15 = 59, 20 = 68, 25 = 77, etc. All temperatures in between I estimate.
This is a quick shorthand temp conversion without needing a calculator or other app. Hope it helps.
45C at my place in Las Vegas. " What do you do when its that hot?" is a typical question. STAY INSIDE. We also had snow the first week of April and the snow in the mountains didn't start melting until June. We should be back to our normal temps of 38-40 this weekend with thunderstorms...
Grumbles how humid does it get in Nevada? Luv ariz climate need it but can do without ariz attitudes generally!
About the same as AZ. It's running about 15-20% in LV right now. Outside the city, it is lower obviously
@@anastasia10017
My fiancee is also an Anastasia)) Small world
I was just 102F up here in Oregon and no one was going outside. Probably nothing to you guys, but to us, that's getting unbearable.
I live in Phoenix, which averages more than 100 days of 100F+ weather each year.
But the humidity is very low, usually between 7-25%.
It's currently 114F with 10% humidity.
Yeah. Thats what sucks about Virginia. It doesn't hit 100 as often as that, but when it does, it's usually humid asf. 😢
What's it there now? About 7 p.m.?
Southern Oregon... Same
When I went to AZ in winter, it was so dry I had to get nasal spray and a humidifier for the hotel room. My sinuses hurt. I prefer more humidity.
I am from Washington State. Very few days go above 90.
Wisconsin is pretty crazy, in winter with wind chill it can get below -20 degrees Fahrenheit (What it feels like) while in summer it can break 105 degrees. The records are -35 degrees with wind and 114 degrees.
Native New Yorker here, and still here, NYC summers are awful. It is very hot but also very very humid. When you step outside it feels like you’re stepping into everyone’s collective sweat and grime of the city.
NYC used to experience real winter, I remember snow piled 7 feet high along the gutter and sidewalks as I went to school. Now we’re lucky if it sticks to the ground for more than an hour and not immediately melt.
Currently we have been having temps between 85-95 for weeks now. There is no relief here other than going indoors into air conditioning. This is a concrete jungle, there is no escape under trees, no lakes, or rivers to dunk into. Almost every beach within the city is overcrowded and nasty, especially after a heavy rainstorm. DO NOT COME IN THE SUMMER. Best time is probably the fall/Autumn.
i think the last time we had snow like that was the 2010 blizzard, it’s been way too long since we’ve had real snow. it’s depressing as hell 😔
just that brutal heat and humidity in the summer and the brutal cold in the winter
Just hit 100° the past 2 days here in NJ. We have had a heatwave for the past 3 weeks.
40 C is 104 F. That is a pretty routine summertime termperature for portions of the deep south, and very frequently for the deserts and grasslands of the American Southwest, including portions of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, and California. 50 C is 122 F and that occurs once in a while in Death Valley National Park, the Las Vegas, Nevada area, and Phoenix, Arizona.
104 is regular in Kansas June-September, too.
I grew up in Utah in the United States. I think the most extreme temperature swing was in 2001. in the summer it was 115 degrees farenheit (46 degrees celsius) and -26 degrees farenheit (-32 degrees celsius) in the winter. both extremes sustained for more than a week.
As a north dakotan people still talk about 1936. Our state went from -51°C to 49°C in five months.
People would sleep by sloughs cuz it was a little cooler by the waters but because of the mosquitoes people had massive histamine reactions along with dehydration and heat stroke. Hundreds of north dakotas died. We are better at dealing with the cold. We can get a polar vortex the has flash frozen foxes and skunks along the side of roads, frozen mid step.
The entire US gets really hot, the father north you go the fewer months of heat you get is the main difference.
Exactly This.
(See my post about growing up in Vermont in the 1970's) LOL
91° here in the north east New York State. We also have a tornado watch going on. Something we never used to get.
Im so glad I live further north. I never experienced 100 personally but other parts of my state has. Hottest I've experienced was 95. I cant imagine going to the south in summer
@@ironiccookies2320 I've experienced multiple days over 100 already this year. lol I couldn't even tell you how many total in my life have been over. Nothing really changes. I'm in Alabama now but grew up in Georgia.
I'm in Wisconsin and this has been the coolest and rainiest summer that I can ever remember. It has hardly been over 80. Raining so much we've had flash flooding. It's currently only 81° right now. It been in the 60s overnight. It's so cool that lake michigan, nor even smaller lakes, are barely swim able. It would be frigid for people from the south. It's crazy that's it so hot and dry in other places right now. I wish we could trade some to even it out. Lol
It's not only the heat but the humidity and "dewpoint" (The temperature it would have to be for the water in the air to start condensing and forming droplets) with these high temperatures. When the dewpoints start reaching in the 70+ F range, you can sweat, but it doesn't evaporate and you don't cool down so without air conditioning, these heat waves can result in many deaths due to the bodies overheating. I've been in 110 F with low humidity and dewpoint and would take that over some 98 degree days I've seen in the east and southeast where NOTHING will cool you off. It literally feels like you're in a sauna of steam when you walk out the door.
Honestly, if you’re planning on going to Texas at any point between June to August, it will be hot, humid, and miserable. If you’re closer to the gulf (like Houston area), you gotta be wary of hurricanes during that time as well. They’re terrifying. Many areas of Texas have local laws that consider A/C failures during the summer to be considered an emergency. Having a working cooling system is essential for survival.
I’ve lived in Buffalo NY. One of the most infamous cities for snow. We don’t really get much more snowfall than a lot of other cities, but because of out position near Lake Erie, we can get lake effect snow. Basically water evaporates off the lake and falls as heavy snow. It can go for days. We have had snowfalls over 9 feet (3 meters) over a 5 day stretch. But down the street there is nothing. Some years we get buried, others we get almost nothing. But 3 inches in a storm is common. 3 feet is not uncommon. That is about when things will close. But it can snow anywhere from October to May. But almost guaranteed from late December until February. We have also had 60*F days in January and weeks in the 90*sF in July/August. I enjoy the variation. lol.
Arizona here. When I was 15 in the 70s, the record high in June was 117F, now 120F is very common. I blame to much concrete, asphalt and glass due to overpopulation. But at least it's a dry heat.
Phoenix needs more trees to mitigate the heat island effect. That’s why I’m moving to Prescott at least it’s 10-15F cooler on avg
122 in 1990 :)
This is absolutely true, in my opinion, too. In Phoenix proper, temperatures get higher than areas like San Tan Valley. There is still a fair bit of farm land that helps reduce temps. Even a few degrees can really make a difference. The one good thing is that the majority of places people want to see when they visit Arizona are more reasonable during the summer ranging more high 90s to low 100s F.
Officially, from weather,gov, the top 5 hottest days ever in Phoenix in recorded history (back more than 100 years) are 122 in 1990, 121 in 1995, 120 in 1990, and 119 (two days in 2023). So once you are below the hottest 5 days in history you are below 119 degrees. But, we do get a lot of days between 110 and 116. That is pretty common. Also, everyone’s backyard thermometer or car thermometer always reads hotter. Especially due to the hot asphalt. So everyone exaggerates and thinks it is always hotter than it is. But 120+ is still not common in Phoenix.
I grew up in Michigan but lived in California for about a year. Anyway, I travelled from California to Texas, passing through Arizona during the summertime. The air conditioner in my car was broken and I had my puppy in the back seat. I made a stop at a gas station. I was worried my pup or myself was going to get a heat stroke or pass out or something. It was that hot. I was literally getting dizzy while on the freeway and was trying to find a gas station asap. And rolling down the windows didn’t even help. It just felt like a heater blowing in your face. Thankfully, the gas station had air conditioning. I carried my pup in with me (he couldn’t walk on the pavement of course since it would’ve burned his paws) and I ended up getting a bag of ice. I dumped it in my pup’s kennel and kept a little ice for myself to keep us cool. That helped a lot. I also made frequent stops at gas stations so we could cool down in the air conditioned place. I will never forget that heat. That was the hottest temperature I’ve ever experienced in my life, and I know there are places that get hotter than that.
You ALWAYS stop at a gas station in the desert to fill up and get water. No exceptions.
Sleep during the day, drive at night.
August 13th down here in South Carolina- it's currently 91* F (32* C) with 82% humidity. Honestly, I'm just glad it's cooled down so much since Summer.
I live in southern Indiana, Last year in December the temperature went from 70f to -30f overnight. It was one of the most extremes I've seen but I've also seen it soar from 60f to 124f in the summer months before as well. It get hot and cold very rapidly.
the whole time he was freaking out about 100 degrees I was just thinking to myself, *Phoenix Arizona stands up and says "Hold my beer" 😅*
No joke. The only time I have been in Phoenix, it was 119°. I had no idea that eyeballs could hurt.
Was in Phoenix mesa area last week 109° at midnight the heat don't leave at night
Messed up fact, Phoenix measures the temperature in the shade.
@@anotherdadjoke All of NOAA certified weather stations are measured in the shade. If the thermometer is in direct sunlight you will get a false high reading. Think of it touching the hood of a car on a hot sunny day.
@@mgtowmike752I remember Phoenix have 100+ 24hr a day for around 2 months. That’s insane
I think April for Texas. The Beasley's went in April and said they were fine.
Early spring is a good time since it isn't too cold and not too hot either. But it's still important to be hydrated no matter what.
Texas has great weather in the spring and later fall and even a lot of winter.
I love that couple. A little young but great personality!
Grew up in Southern Cailfornia and experienced high of 122F (usual summer high in August was 115F) and later moved to the Rockies in Montana and experienced 57F below.
October is probably the best month to visit the US. Nationwide, the temperatures are enjoyable, the northeast is in its prime, the south is warm and relaxing, and the west is preparing for the winter snows. If you do come by in the fall I would highly recommend visitng Vermont the beautiful scenery is hard to beat. I'd also recommend Colorado, Utah(if you're into hiking to amazing sites) and Arizona. Hope you get to plan a trip here to the states and keep making fantastic videos they're always fun to watch!
Here in Missouri recently we had temperatures reach 94-98 degrees with a heat index of 110-114 degrees, which means the air temp can be 97 but when you add 80% humidity to the mix the feels like temp is 108 plus, the humidity makes things worse it's like being in a sauna
Where I am in southeast MO we hit 100/feels like 125. And lots of people here don’t have ac. 🥵
Not only is it hot and humid in Texas in August, you may encounter hurricanes if you're near the coast.
Check out a video on Hurricane Beryl.
If you ever decide to go to Minnesota for the Mall of America, I would recommend coming sometime around April or September. Those months are the mildest when it comes to temperature in my opinion. I will warn you, though Minnesota has a very wide range in temperature. Sometimes it can be as hot as 110°F (43°C) in the summer to as cold as -40°F (-40°C) in the winter, however, both of these are rare. Autumn and spring are generally the best seasons to come since the temperatures are generally nice unless you get hit with very bad humidity
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Nebraska is one of the worst for temperature because of the insane humidity. Yesterday, my car was reading 104⁰F and the real feel was hotter still because it is humid. The humidity is terrible in part because of the corn and bean crops. It is referred to as the Corn Sweats because it is quite literally the corn in the state "sweating," raising the humidity to insane levels. An acre of corn can release 4,000 gallons of water into the air a day.
Being acclimated has a lot to do with what you can tolerate. I used to spent days and months in 100+F temperatures on patrol as a deputy sheriff wearing body armor. On any number of occasions, I had to be out on the ground for an hour or more working. Before that, I was a firefighter, and of course many brush fires happened in 100F weather. And that's wearing heavy protective clothing. I did okay then. I'm much older now and would not try it again. But i still can do light work and things like mowing with a tractor, though it is very wearing. But I grew up in high heat and humidity. Likely you would not enjoy it. One problem is that much of the south and east of Texas also has high humidity, greatly increasing the "feels like" heat index. While much of West Texas is dry. In the Big Bend region, it gets as hot as in Austin, but the humidity is very low. Dessert conditions. So if you step into the shade it feels instantly cooler. But people get in trouble because they don't know they are sweating away a lot of water, far more than at home. In the Big Bend, it evaporates too quickly to be aware of it. If they don't force themselves to drink constantly, they may well end up with a serious heat injury. And those who travel only to the coastal beeches do alright, since they're wearing few clothes, and there's an almost constant breeze off the water.
Save the visit for spring or fall, like October. But Texas weather is notoriously variable. Hot one day and freezing rain the next. Forecasts more than a few days out cannot be believed. You take you chances and come ready for anything. Remember what Civil War General Phil Sheridan said. "If I owned Hell and Texas, I'd live in Hell and rent out Texas."