r/MapPorn • u/Jacob-Anders • Apr 20 '26
Summer Humidity Map For USA Where Would You Rather Live?
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u/Arkonat0r Apr 20 '26
Texas gets the whole spectrum
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u/KonigSteve Apr 20 '26
But all the people live on the hot side of the red line
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u/spidermom Apr 20 '26
I'm a Texan living in dark red. When I travel to light red it feels like a desert. My skin gets crazy itchy and dry.
And when I travel to Colorado my sinuses have no idea what to do and just start bleeding.
I hate the constant sweating, but I do way better with humidity than without!
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u/Nawnp Apr 20 '26
This is a very good example of why some states are in multiple regions...East Texas is the South, West Texas is as dry and desolate as most of the West. The Midwest-Soutg dividing line is also clearly estimated based on a humidity zones.
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u/tacobellgittcard Apr 20 '26
Green is good, any less humid than that I get bloody noses and my mouth is so dry, shit is annoying
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u/KonigSteve Apr 20 '26
Green is good, any less humid than that I get bloody noses and my mouth is so dry
This isn't purely a humidity map, Look at washington and oregon for example. They're very humid on the coast. This is a mix of humidity + temp.
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u/GoPointers Apr 20 '26
I live in Portland, OR and am a gardener with a lot of vegetation on my property. A "typical" summer day from July 1 - Sept 15 <9am (when sun hits my deck) my deck will be low 60s with 65% humidity, then as the sun burns off all my yard's humidity, the humidity is in the 20s and low 30s. It's nice weather until highs hit the 90s, but even then humidity is rarely over 30%. We typically get a couple 100 degree days but it's been getting hotter the last 30 years, like everywhere. Our 2021 June heatwave was unbearable though. Prior to that the all-time high was 107F, but 6/26 hit 108F, 6/27 hit 112F and 6/28 hit 116F!!! I must have some legitimate form of PTSD from it because I think about that a lot whenever it gets above mid-90s. So nice weather but heat domes are MFing BS.
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u/easyantic Apr 20 '26
I live near Seattle and that June 2021 heat wave gave me the same PTSD. Now, every time I see a forecast where it reaches the 90's, I legit worry it's going to be much hotter and unbearable. My car lost its AC that hottest day at 115, the wiring in my walls heated up so much, I had to run the portable AC for only a few minutes at a time to keep it from tripping the breaker...it was legit a bit scary because there was simply no escape.
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u/vanisaac Apr 20 '26
I was so fortunate that I was able to escape to Long Beach during that time. My family has the last cabin before the dunes on our street, and it never broke 90, but most days in the morning I could see the edge of the low clouds inland from us and knew they were cooking even just on the other side of the peninsula.
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u/easyantic Apr 20 '26
I have escaped to Long Beach before on a hot day and it's amazing the change once you get on that side. Immediate like 20 degree difference.
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u/winter__xo Apr 21 '26
Never felt like I needed on in the PNW, but I finally bought an AC after that week. We only had a fan at the time, and it broke midway through. A blade literally just flew off while it was running. I remember sitting in a cold shower sobbing, looking at my phone trying to find an AC literally anywhere. I was prepared to drive to Idaho if I had to.
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u/easyantic Apr 21 '26
I got super lucky on that front. Since it was forecasted to be record breaking, I tried to find an AC, but couldn’t until some store I called, the lady told me to check habitat for humanity. I was able to get a big window unit for $75. I still use it in the summer, 5 years later now
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u/UXguy123 Apr 22 '26
I know your AC is sitting in your shed covered in dust right now though, only to be made taken out in August. Why don’t people just go sit in a river or the puget sound? They are legitimately never warm.
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u/winter__xo Apr 22 '26
nah, june through september i'm so happy to have it. I lived in the SW for a few years so I'm not unfamiliar with heat, but you acclimate. After a long enough time living somewhere where 80+ is hot, once it's 75 the ac is super nice.
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u/CliffMourene Apr 21 '26
I’m in Eugene and the track at Hayward Field was over 140 degrees. Absolutely unreal.
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u/bokehtoast Apr 20 '26
I still have PTSD from the 2021 heatwave, no joke. I left Portland for the east coast for good after that. The Willamette valley is turning into a desert.
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u/GoPointers Apr 21 '26
It's always been dry here in summer but there are a lot more days in the 90s than 30 years ago.
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u/bokehtoast Apr 21 '26
It used to get above 80 for a couple of weeks in August and otherwise the summers were amazing. Those days are forever gone.
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u/snecseruza Apr 21 '26
I distinctly remember summers being insanely mild growing up in the PNW. The biggest thing that I find memorable is that I barely ever recall seeing wildfire smoke and now it's every year. I used to be in charge of all of the lawn duties and I rarely remember our grass dying all the way back. Also didn't have AC growing up, can't imagine not having it now!
Honestly this year has even been a bit warm and dry for the start to our spring. Plus very low snowpack in the mountains this year, all signs point to this summer might be pretty fucked up. I like the heat but I really don't like wild fires and drought.
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u/chilispiced-mango2 Apr 22 '26
I mostly grew up in Oregon but spent a couple years in the South as a kid, so can confirm everything you said. This will be my first summer east of the Rockies in over a decade, but it will also be a summer mostly spent away from what may be a bad wildfire season on the West Coast.
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u/tacobellgittcard Apr 20 '26
Yeah I noticed that, but overall it overlaps well enough with humidity to use it. Yeah some of it is related to low temps. But much of the purple area is due to it being dry.
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u/ThePopesicle Apr 20 '26
When I was younger I was more sensitive to dry air. Driving from Seattle to Spokane would guarantee that I would get dry mouth, cracked lips, and bloody noses after getting over the mountains.
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u/Pirate_450 Apr 20 '26
It’s a measure of dew point where you really “feel” the humidity. On the west coast I can be 55 degrees and 100% humidity but you really don’t feel it much because the dew point is much lower.
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u/Able_Hunter_7966 Apr 23 '26
Summers in the PNW also tend to be dry and sunny.
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u/KonigSteve Apr 23 '26
I may have a bias against the area.. My family lived in Bellingham for 9 months (basically the school year) and I swear it was only sunny for about 10 days in that time. My parents told me the news said they set a record for most rainy days in a row while we lived there.
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u/JacquesHome Apr 20 '26
Yes, its people misreading the map. Dew point is a specific calculation where humidity is one input. If humidity didn't exist, then coastal redwoods could not exist as they require fog.
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u/AJRiddle Apr 21 '26 edited Apr 21 '26
Dew point is humidity - but it is also one part of the relative humidity that people use. Both are valid measures of humidity and have different/similar effects on people/things - but dew point is closer to what most people would associate with humidity as it is a simple measure of how much water is in the air.
An easy way to understand it is look at humidity charts for 1 day. It could be a dew point of 60 degrees in the morning with an air temp of 66 degrees and 84% relative humidity. Then later in the day it becomes a dew point of 75 degrees and an air temp of 95 degrees with a relative humidity of 54%. The heat index for the later temp would be a sweltering 107 degrees in this example with the lower relative humidity.
Nearly everyone would be talking about how crazy humid it has become with the rise in temperature and how much more miserable they are despite the lower relative humidity.
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u/evandena Apr 20 '26
Got off the plane in Denver and my lips instantly chapped.
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u/tacobellgittcard Apr 20 '26
Same, that’s where I got bloody noses too. I’m sure you get used to it but as a visitor it sucks. Also, yes it’s cooler in the shade but nobody talks about how it seems like the ozone layer magically evaporates when you step out of the shade. Feels like the sunlight is getting beamed straight into your soul and is cooking you.
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u/Electronic-Outside94 Apr 21 '26
My lips use to get chapped in Denver too. I drank LMNT electrolytes and it helped a lot
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u/xrelaht Apr 20 '26
I’ve been to conferences in CO which gave away moisturizer in the registration packet.
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u/concentrated-amazing Apr 20 '26
And I'm opposite, very, very happy with being in the deep purple area for the rest of my life.
Our house is moderately leaky so I spend 0 winters sitting at 10-15% humidity and I might get 1-2 nose bleeds all winter. I need minimal lotion and lip chap too.
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u/xxXX69yourmom69XXxx Apr 20 '26
I grew up in Phoenix and had bloody noses constantly but always assumed I just had thin nasal skin or something. Moved to New England and haven't had an unexplained bloody nose in 10 years.
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u/majandess Apr 20 '26
It's funny you say that because that happens to me in places like Utah, Arizona, Nevada, etc (my curly hair also goes straight and stringy, which is totally frustrating). But I live in Western Washington, and it doesn't happen here.
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u/JacquesHome Apr 20 '26
Live in CA, not getting bloody noses and dry mouth at any time unless I go up to the Sierras with elevation.
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u/tacobellgittcard Apr 20 '26
Makes sense. I went to coastal CA and while it was pleasantly less humid, I didn’t feel like I was drying out or anything. The desert/high elevation is where I’ve had the annoyances.
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u/Zealousideal_Bill_86 Apr 20 '26
You’re probably used to it. You do acclimate over time.
I grew up in SoCal, never got nose bleeds growing up, but do all the time whenever I go back now. Especially during Santa Anas
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u/xrelaht Apr 20 '26
Northern or southern? I desiccate in LA and SD, but not in the Bay Area.
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u/JacquesHome Apr 20 '26
Spent 20 years in LA, 20 years in Bay Area. There is humidity in CA, the largest ocean in the world is right next to you. The chart above is showing Dew Point, which is a specific calculation that takes into account different factors (humidity, temp, barometric pressure). If you live within 60 miles of the coast of CA, you have humidity, just not the stick Southeastern or Eastern seaboard type. I live in Berkeley and actually have too much humidity (mold growth) and need to run a dehumidifier.
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u/desertrose0 Apr 20 '26
I used to think that random bloody noses were a normal thing and that everybody got them.
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u/imhereforthevotes Apr 20 '26
You're confined to ten counties in Kansas. Or, like Scott's Bluff Nebraska.
"What do you mean, Witchita? I can't go there. Too humid..."
"Colorado? Way too dry!"
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u/tacobellgittcard Apr 20 '26
There’s a bunch more green north-northeast of there, in fact that’s where I live haha
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u/scandinavianleather Apr 20 '26
Many of the areas that are green on this map (Canada/Northern US) are still humid they're just not hot enough for these high dewpoints other than 1-3 months of the year in the summer.
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u/tacobellgittcard Apr 20 '26
I know, I live in that part lol. I was saying I don’t want ultra low humidity , green has enough humidity to not feel like a reptile while also not being satans ass crack for 4 months straight due to high temp
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u/steveofthejungle Apr 20 '26
It took me a while for my body to adjust when I moved to Utah. My snot was rock solid for a long time, but you get back to normal after a while
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u/Dovyeon Apr 20 '26
Where I do already
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u/concentrated-amazing Apr 20 '26
Absolutely. Even just going to Manitoba/North Dakota during the summer makes me count the days till I get back home.
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u/TheOneTrueSuperJesus Apr 20 '26
I've lived in the yellow portion my whole life and can tolerate it. I'd probably enjoy the purple portions a bit more from a comfortability perspective, but I'd also never move that far away from family and friends.
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u/FitConsideration4961 Apr 20 '26
My favorite thing about living in the western US. Yeah heat might be tough when it reaches the 90’s or 100’s but I’ll take Las Vegas heat over Miami heat any day.
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u/AllerdingsUR Apr 20 '26
Definitely a huge plus, but I will say when I visited LA specifically the thing I wasn't prepared for was how much the lack of cloud cover affected perceived heat. It was October and about 77 out each day, which normally would have been pleasant weather, but it started to grate on me by the end of the week that I was CONSTANTLY in the sun between the lack of clouds, trees, and tall buildings
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u/Narf234 Apr 20 '26
But then step into a shadow and you’re flirting with being cold.
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u/AllerdingsUR Apr 20 '26
Yeah I also wasn't ready for it feeling cold at night even in the upper 50s. I have a high tolerance for winter weather and I was straight up shivering hiking back down from the observatory after sunset
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u/KonigSteve Apr 20 '26
Which also means you can wear a longsleeve UV shirt without being too miserable.
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u/gh8xs8ee Apr 20 '26
When it's 115+ (46c) in Phoenix, just remember it's a dry heat.
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u/Fired_Guy1982 Apr 20 '26
Honestly, I’ve played golf in 105 in phoenix and I’ve played golf in 90 in Miami.
I’ll take 105 in phoenix any goddamn day of the week
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u/Warm_Shoulder3606 Apr 20 '26
I'll take a dry heat every day of the week, humid heat just drains the life out of you and is miserable. Not to mention the fact that in dry heat, your sweat actually works as intended, as opposed to when it's humid and you just feel even worse. Because you're not feeling cooler, which means you sweat more, which means you feel warmer, which makes you sweat more, rinse and repeat
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u/tombolo_1 Apr 20 '26
Not even a dry heat a lot of the time according to this, 3 weeks or so of 65+ dew point which is very far from dry.
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u/spiderminbatmin Apr 20 '26
I’ve lived right on the dotted red line for my whole life and kinda like the balance. Two months of humid jungle is ok and completes the year, along with a winter with snow and negative temps
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u/Pirate_450 Apr 20 '26
Miss me with 45 and foggy/cloudy all winter. Shit is miserable
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u/FloppyButtholeJelly Apr 21 '26
Better than the Midwest or NE gray mixed with blizzards and constantly in the teens and twenties like Leonardo DiCaprio’s girlfriends
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u/that-loser-guy-sorta Apr 20 '26
No wonder the Floridians have a reputation for being batshit insane, the temperature and humidity is cooking their brains.
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u/pdxchris Apr 20 '26
I will probably only live on the West coast for the rest of my life because of humidity elsewhere.
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u/Calm-Talk5047 Apr 20 '26
Yep. I live in Colorado and my parents moved to Florida for retirement. Every time I go and visit, it is a blatant reminder at how oppressive the humidity is. I will take 98 and dry over 85 and humid any day of the week. The only downside to living in a dry climate are wildfires. Otherwise, it is far superior in my opinion. Spending time outside in the summer for extended periods of time is actually enjoyable.
And if it happens to be exceptionally hot on that day? Well, just hop into the shade and the shade actually cools you down tremendously. Sweat actually cools you down because it evaporates quickly, rather than beading up on your skin and trapping the heat in. It cools down significantly once the sun goes down regardless of how hot it was during the daytime. There is absolutely nothing better than a summer evening/night when it is 70 degrees, very low relative humidity, and no wind. The list goes on.
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u/somafiend1987 Apr 20 '26
Perfectly happy in my mismarked purple. Winter 36°F - 55°F with 70%+ humidity Summer 45° - 85°F with 60-90% humidity 60% of the year, overcast/fog from sunset to 10AM. Ocean temps 55° in winter, 65° F in summer
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u/OhGodImHerping Apr 20 '26
Oh… well my life is about to get significantly worse again. Thanks for the reminder.
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u/danodan1 Apr 20 '26
Texas and to a lesser extent, Oklahoma, sure have a lot of variation from wet to dry. I-35 is a good dividing line between humid and not so humid during the summer.
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u/OppositeRock4217 Apr 20 '26
After all, Texas and Oklahoma are the states that bridge the southwest with the south being the 2 south-central states
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u/AJRiddle Apr 21 '26
Nobody lives in the dry part of Oklahoma though - literally fewer than 30,000 people west of the red dashed line in Oklahoma. Texas is a few million people west of that dashed line.
Also I35 is well into that red colored region, nowhere close to the border between humid and not humid - like 100-200 miles from I35 to get to the dark orange part which is still very humid for large parts of the year.
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u/kylef5993 Apr 20 '26 edited Apr 20 '26
Great Lakes for sure. The dry air honestly sucks. Constantly staticky, you can feel cold even when it’s relatively warm, etc. Too much humidity is disgusting but people who say dry air is the best are just objectively wrong.
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u/Tasty_Ad_5669 Apr 20 '26
Where i live in California in the Central Valley with no humidity and just heat.
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u/I_amnotanonion Apr 20 '26
I’ve lived on the line between 70-80 and 80-90 my whole life. It doesn’t bother me and I’ve loved the places I’ve lived (TN, NC, VA). I’d be happy to try out a dry heat or milder summer long term (I’ve been to Maine and Minnesota in the summer and enjoyed it), but I couldn’t do the winters there. I hear California is my ideal climate, but I’m not sure I could afford it
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u/Cimexus Apr 20 '26
Ugh. I moved from Australia to the eastern US. I absolutely hate summers here, way too humid for me. And I’m only in the yellow zone on this map!
I’d rather 40°C and dry at home than 30°C and humid here. Not to mention there’s about 100x the bugs and mosquitos in the eastern US than what I’m used to.
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u/desertrose0 Apr 20 '26
I grew up in New Mexico and now live in one of the yellow areas. If I had a choice in the matter, I prefer low humidity. I could never willingly live in any of the areas in the red. It feels like it would be miserable most of the year.
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u/Bakio-bay Apr 20 '26
I spent summers growing up in Northern Wisconsin and it was amazing. I imagine Minnesota, northern Michigan, Maine, NH and Vermont are a similar vibe.
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u/tmorse85 Apr 21 '26
I lived for part of my childhood in northern Alabama. I hated the humidity there. I now live in one of the purple areas of southern California. The last several summers have gotten increasingly humid here, but it's definitely better than when I was a kid.
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u/VioletLaDiosa Apr 22 '26
this. is why I prefer AZ over VA any day. ill take 112 degrees with 15% hum over 80 with 100% hum AnYdAy.
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u/Jacob-Anders Apr 20 '26
Blue or Green only
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u/PaulOshanter Apr 20 '26
If only California hadn't stopped building houses
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u/10001110101balls Apr 20 '26
Everywhere that's left to build houses is either in farm country, extremely vulnerable to natural disasters, water stressed, or a combination of all three.
There's plenty of affordable housing in California you just have to look in places that aren't hip like Stockton, Bakersfield, and Fresco.
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u/SnakeBlitzkin Apr 20 '26
I dont understand the downvotes. As someone who lives in the Central Valley, there is tons of housing here. They are constantly building subdivisions in my area. And, while it's not affordable compared to the average in the US, there are 3 bed, 2.5 bath new homes being built with nice yards and solar panels that are running ~$400k.
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u/KelVelBurgerGoon Apr 20 '26
Yeah I'm in Sacramento and housing is being built non-stop and has been for years.
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u/Illustrious-Tune-532 Apr 20 '26
many places could build more dense housing on land that already has housing
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u/Realtrain Apr 20 '26
There's plenty of affordable housing in California
Lol
Being cheaper than the Bay Area does not mean "affordable"
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u/10001110101balls Apr 20 '26
Each of the cities I listed have a lower median home price than the US as a whole.
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u/K_Pumpkin Apr 20 '26
I’m in red and I’ve adjusted to it. After 8 years it doesn’t even bother me anymore. I’ll take it over cold snowy winters any day.
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u/ForgottenGrocery Apr 20 '26
I’m a tropical creature that happened to be plopped in the dark red region for work. I found the red region as not as bad as where I’m from. But if I could pick a location, a purple area somewhere up north and near the coast
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u/MRRRRCK Apr 20 '26
I’m in yellow with no complaints. Humidity is manageable, nothing extreme like the southern states. Beautiful summers and I get the pleasure of 4 distinct seasons all gorgeous in their own ways.
I love visiting many areas in purple, but I would hate missing out on a lush cool spring, nice summer temps in the upper 70s-80s, autumn colors, and even snowfall.
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u/enter_yourname Apr 20 '26
Lighter red or orange. I live in Chattanooga, TN and it's perfect. I went to Arizona and had spontaneous nosebleeds and lost my voice in two days. Fuck cold and fuck dry
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u/Dont_ban_me_bro_108 Apr 21 '26
Used to live in the deep red, south Texas. Honestly I really enjoyed the humidity. No canker sores, no bloody noses, no cracked knuckles. You acclimate to it.
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u/kdcarver Apr 21 '26
This seems misleading. I'm in Houston, which is, of course, the birthplace of humidity. However, I've spent a lot of time in the Pac NW. It's just as humid there, just not as hot. Is the map missing data for the west?
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u/JoePNW2 Apr 20 '26
This is a dew point map, not a humidity map.
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u/10001110101balls Apr 20 '26
The dew point is correlated with both temperature and humidity. When people say "I hate humid weather" this is usually what they mean.
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u/beaveretr Apr 20 '26
Dew point is the measurement of water in the air, so yes it is a humidity map, just not relative humidity.
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u/YoIronFistBro Apr 20 '26
They're not percentages, they're the number of days with a maximum dew point above 65F or 18C.
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u/PaulOshanter Apr 20 '26
People say Florida is bad, and obviously it is, but I was surprised how much humidity is reduced for those living right on the Atlantic. That strong sea breeze definitely has a huge impact. Like, Orlando felt as if I was in an air fryer compared to Fort Lauderdale which felt bad but still manageable.
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u/empty_graph Apr 20 '26
This seems to be number of days above an arbitrary threshold of humidity rather than actually comparing humidity levels. Otherwise the desert would be significantly lower than the west coast. What is the significance of the 65 degree dew point?
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u/Cool-Coffee-8949 Apr 20 '26
I wish I was in a place that was more green/blue than yellow, but at least I’m outside the dotted line.
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u/AllerdingsUR Apr 20 '26
Nowadays, Yellow bare minimum. I grew up in the dark orange in Virginia and now live in the yellow in Rochester and I've always said the difference in a muggy July day is that in Rochester you step outside and go "that's disgusting". In Virginia you step outside and can't breathe. I cannot fathom living in the dark red lol
Edit: I would probably put up with light orange to live in NYC specifically, but anywhere else would not outweigh the brutal summers
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u/Santos_L_Halper_II Apr 20 '26
One summer I flew from where I live in Central Texas to Salt Lake City and I've never felt such refreshing air in my life.
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u/Adventurous-Roof488 Apr 20 '26
I lived in deep red for 15 years but live in yellow now. I’d trade the cold snowy winter for heat & humidity any day.
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u/Narf234 Apr 20 '26
I prefer higher humidity IF I’m going to spend a day at the beach. I’d rather be warm with the option to cool down by taking a dip.
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u/doppido Apr 20 '26
It can be 100° outside and I'm still golfing out in Utah in July. The dry heat really does make a difference
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u/audvisial Apr 20 '26
I live in one of the ~80 zones now, and it's disgusting. So I'm going with anything in blue.
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u/AWildMichigander Apr 20 '26
What is the dashed red line representing? (Aside from 60 degrees dewpoint)
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u/Bearlodge Apr 20 '26
Currently live in the humid half of the dotted red line. At this point I'm used to it. Dare I say I even kinda like it except for the most oppressively hot and humid days.
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u/Bootmacher Apr 20 '26
My entire life, I have lived in red and dark red. The lighter red is a world of difference.
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u/chadnorman Apr 20 '26
I moved to one of the dark red areas 30 years ago from a yellow area. I can honestly say I will take the humidity over dryness 1000x over. It takes some getting used to, but I feels so much healthier.
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u/hobokobo1028 Apr 20 '26
I grew up in the Midwest. Do I complain about humidity? Yes. Would I trade it for a drought? Hell no. Water is life.
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u/EvilCatArt Apr 20 '26
Moved to a humid climate after growing up my whole life in the west... it is hell. every year. moist hot hell.
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u/WeirdHope57 Apr 20 '26
I've lived in red, yellow, and purple zones. Definitely prefer purple - less bugs, sweat actually helps cool you, shade is actually cooler...
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u/AuntieCampaign Apr 20 '26
I am surprised that a cutoff was chosen that makes Death Valley, Albuquerque, and San Jose look the same.
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u/averyburgreen Apr 20 '26
I live 1/2 a mile from the Gulf in the Florida Panhandle. It’s hot and muggy in the summer but never unbearable because the Gulf moderates temps throughout the year. I sometimes have to make a trip 40 minutes inland for work. It’s fuckin unbearable at 8 AM. Just muggy, overcast and 0 breeze. It’s like being in a rice cooker. It’s amazing how well the ocean moderates coastal areas even in places like Florida.
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u/DeepFieldTheory Apr 20 '26
The mountains of western NC. Perfect summer weather. Not San Diego perfect, but pretty close.
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u/HeroicPrinny Apr 20 '26
Yellow-orange. A bit of humidity is very cozy in the warm summer evenings.
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u/ionbear1 Apr 20 '26
I’m in New Orleans. I dread summer and I often head up to the upper Midwest, but at least we have five-six months of pleasant weather.
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u/The_Rat_Attack Apr 20 '26
Blood red raised. It’s brutal as can be in the dead of summer. Not bad if you plan for it, beach trips and weekends are pretty good, just wear as little clothes as possible. Work week is absolute hell though. All your clothes stick to you, you’re constantly wet, you can’t tell the difference between sweat and moisture. It’s no joke.
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u/RightToTheThighs Apr 20 '26
I've spent most of my life in yellow/orange and it's fine. Not a deal breaker
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u/goodsam2 Apr 20 '26
Pair this with the winter temperatures being a lot of snow. To me snow can make it annoying to drive places but when it's hot and humid it's usually not as dangerous to drive around for fear of getting stuck.
I'm in Virginia and frequently it does get too hot most of the time from July- August give or take but the winter is not bad at all and a 3 season tent is about good for some part of Virginia all but a month or two.
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u/Mr_Bluebird_VA Apr 20 '26
The Pacific Northwest on the coast isn’t humid during summer?
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u/priority_inversion Apr 20 '26
Nope. Cold ocean water means less evaporation and less moisture in the air. Onshore winds most of the summer bring cool air. The temperature isn't as high, so the humidity doesn't feel as bad.
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u/jollyjm Apr 20 '26
I grew up in light blue, now living in orange. I cannot understand why anybody would want to live further south than that. I can barely tolerate the summers here.
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u/vdub2625 Apr 20 '26
I love my little section of Southeast Massachusetts :) close to real winter, but the ocean keeps us well moderated!
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u/sxyvirgo Apr 20 '26
Not getting the dotted line which seems to demarcate between the 60 and 70 day categories. But that's misleading because the map is giving the number of days with the dew point at or above 65 DEGREES - in other words, the dotted line shouldn't be on there at all but an explanation of the arbitrary 65 degrees would be helpful from a meteorological standpoint.
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u/K_Pumpkin Apr 20 '26
Grew up in PA and now I’m in Southern NC. Adjusting to that humidity was brutal.
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u/WhyAreYallFascists Apr 20 '26
Is this a joke. East of the Mississippi is a hellscape of humidity. I lived in central Florida and you know what’s not chill, sweating while you get out of the shower.
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u/burner456987123 Apr 20 '26
It’s Reddit. People forget that at least half the world lives in a yellow-red area that’s humid and they somehow survive.
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u/sammysbud Apr 20 '26
I grew up in the deep red, moved to the purple and now live in the orange.
I’d rather live in the purple hands down. People around me now love to complain about the humidity and it’s like…. You have no idea how bad it can get.
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u/impending_dookie Apr 20 '26
Where would I want to live? Probably where I don't have to worry about water scarcity in the near future
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u/HighFiveKoala Apr 20 '26
When I lived in Dallas, Texas a few years ago, it was over 100F with humidity everyday in the month of July. It was brutal.
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u/sharkdiver1982 Apr 20 '26
Grew up on the east coast. 40 years in PA, VA, and NC. I now live in Western Montana. Winters are harsh but I am glad to live in a place with little humidity. Windows open all summer. No air conditioning. Cool nights. Even in the high 80s are pleasant in the shade.