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I sweat a lot for a midwesterner. Florida could literally kill me. Also yeah, it also depends if the wind is dry or not.

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Coloradoans:

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8 points

Ah geez

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44 points

“It’s a dry heat.”

- Everyone in the southwest in unison

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To be fair, I live in a high humidity area and visiting a ‘dry heat’ area was amazing. Being in the shade actually felt refreshing instead of oppressive and stuffy.

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“It’s not the heat, it’s the humidity.”

- Southerners

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Genuinely is though and I will die on that hill.

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As a midwesterner, I will die on both hills, that it’s the wind that gets ya in the cold and that the humidity is what gets ya in the hot

And scientifically/biologically both are true, because the wind takes the warm air from above your skin immediately and the humidity prevents you from sweating

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17 points

Floridian here, yesterday I got home from a week long vacation to a dry place and I changed clothes and they literally felt wet. It was gross. Also it IS the humidity as you can’t sweat as easily if the sweat doesn’t evaporate

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10 points

Both are so true

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22 points

This is the same concept as a convection oven.

Cold, but still air? You’re going to form a little heat bubble around you that makes it less bad. But as soon as a moderate breeze comes through, you lose that heat bubble. If you’re wearing wind resistant clothes, you still have the layer of warm air at your skin.

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This is also why blowing on your food cools it off faster. You blow away that protective heat bubble.

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