Dry heat, humidity, it doesn't matter once it passes 100. Of course, I'm like Stars, anything over 80 is too hot. Our monsoons are brutal as the temps are high and so is the humidity. The temps can sometimes drop significantly right before, during, and right after the storm. It can go from over 100 degrees right down to 70 in a matter of minutes.

At our house we have an evaporative cooler, not air conditioning and although it hasn't been too humid, it's not as effective in this excessive heat. I've been laying low this week.

Also, I think humid heat is far worse as when you sweat, it sticks to you and doesn't evaporate as quickly.

Even worse in the humidity over getting sweaty and sticky is if you have the slightest breathing issue, a stuffy or even worse still a runny nose in the middle of August here and you might as well check into the nearest hospital and be put on oxygen because you will not be moving any air into your lungs. I still remember getting strep in August once... I couldn't get my fever down no matter what I tried, couldn't breath even though there wasn't any lung involvement, I just couldn't really get the air to pass through my nose that was running or my throat that was swollen and raw.

Ended up in the hospital for 4 days over that... and it was simply strep throat, nothing at all unusual other than highly oppressive humidity and heat that was so terrible there was no way to reduce the fever at home at least. In the hospital they had me rather covered in ice packs, on an IV, hooked up to oxygen and pumping me full of fever reducers, antibiotics and fluids. Even the A/C in the building couldn't keep up with the heat from outside... You can really only get about a 20 deg difference in outside air to inside air. So when it's 110 outside the coolest you can get inside is 90 give or take a few degrees depending on the age of your unit and insulation.

I now runaway up north for the worst of the heat in the south. I never want to go through something like that again. The two weeks of heatwave weather we get down here generally finds me hiding in the mountains of NH, unless the sneak up all of a sudden with the climate changes.

Last summer was terrible for me, like 29 days over 90 degrees. I lost 17 pounds over the summer, my appetite disappears with the heat.

My appetite disappears at the drop of a hat, but the heat totally kills it. And it gets my insomnia kicked into high gear, so most summers I seem to survive on 3-4 hours sleep a day and maybe 200 calories, would be less if it wasn't for the DH and mom pretty much forcing me to eat. I've even tried the meal replacement things a few times, but the brain never seems to "hey stupid, put something in your stomach" and they end up forgotten till they expire.

Evaporative cooling?! Oh wow! I know what that is! ☹️

Time to drive up Mount Lemon. That is what I always did. And cherry pie ala mode at the top. That is if the area has finally recovered from the fire about a decade ago and the pie shop still exists.

There's a fire up on Mount Lemmon. I think they even closed the road to go up there. I think the pie shop is open.

One of my friends has a portable a/c that she is going to let me borrow. It's been dry here so the evap cooler is doing fine. No monsoons in sight yet and the dew point is down too. Or at least it was.