[POLL] Which southern state feels the hottest?

[b0mbrman]

I've been to South and North Carolina, Georgia, and I'm going to Louisiana this summer...which state in the south feels the hottest?

 

[pulse8]

I'd say Louisiana, but Florida is a close second.

 

[Instagib]

I'd say Fl. or La.

 

[Dedpuhl]

I live in SW Louisiana. It is hot, muggy, and nasty all the time.


LA by far....

 

[wnied]

Anyone who says anything other than Florida, has never spent an August Summer day in Floridas infamous humidity. I worked in FPLs TSR section of warehouses for a summer....Ugh, salt tablets and hundreds of gallons of water. I make no claims to midwest or Southwest States as I've never been out there. But I have been to Georgia, Louisiana,Alabama and South Carolina and though some come close, none compare in my opinion for flat out energy sapping heat than Florida.

~wnied~

 

[b0mbrman]

Originally posted by: wnied
Anyone who says anything other than Florida, has never spent an August Summer day in Floridas infamous humidity. I worked in FPLs TSR section of warehouses for a summer....Ugh, salt tablets and hundreds of gallons of water. I make no claims to midwest or Southwest States as I've never been out there.

Heh heh. The Arizona desert in August felt like heaven compared to the heat I'd faced in South Carolina

 

[Balt]

I had to say Mississippi myself (especially in the southwest near the river and Louisiana). I swear the humidity must exceed 100% most of the time, it's like walking through a sauna.

 

[Viper0329]

I have been to every state in South but arizona in summer time, and LA is hottest by far. The humidity hardly comes below 100% and it stays like this for months.

 

[b0mbrman]

Originally posted by: Viper0329
I have been to every state in South but arizona in summer time, and LA is hottest by far. The humidity hardly comes below 100% and it stays like this for months.

Fantastic...looks like I'll have a great summer

 

[Maleficus]

Texas, good god its humid down here!

 

[Cyberian]

From (albeit limited) personal experience, I would have to say Florida.

 

[Bignate603]

Louisiana was really hot when i visited Tulane, which is where I'm going to school, hot is better then cold in my book any day.

 

[Pundit]

I was born and raised in Canada, so they probably all feel like furnaces to me. But when I was in Florida in July, the humidity just added to the heat making it unbearable.

(hurray! post #500 )

 

[Shaftatplanetquake]

A vote for South Carolina, from a native South Carolinian.

It is rediculously muggy and hot here. You can't take more than 5 minutes outside in the summer.

 

[glenn1]

Louisiana. I had the misfortune of being sent to Fort Polk for a while. Man, talk about a sh!thole. I've been to all the other southern states with the exception of Mississippi. And how do you figure Texas to be a southern state? Folks from Texas consider themselves Texans first and foremost, not Southerners.

 

[Chaotic42]

I've lived in Biloxi, MS most of my life, and I have to say Louisiana (Biloxi is about 60 miles east of New Orleans). Go down into Plaquimines (sp) parish during the summer on a sunny day.

These whiners here in Indiana wouldn't know hot and humid if it bit them on the ass. It's like 75F with 70% humidity and they complain...

 

[ILikeSprite]

My home state of Florida...... duh! It is called the Sunshine State.

 

[glenn1]

These whiners here in Indiana wouldn't know hot and humid if it bit them on the ass. It's like 75F with 70% humidity and they complain...

I can tell you from personal experience that after a while, you simply peg out the heat index at a certain temperature. That was about 105-110 for me. After that, you just can't tell anymore how much hotter it might be, it's just plain Africa hot. I think the first time i ever experienced truly mad hot weather was in Kuwait... when we got on the plane in Fort Campbell, KY, it was a balmy 89 or so. About 20 hours later they opened up the ramp for us on Camp Doha, and 126 degrees smacked me in the face. Wow. That woke me up real quick.

 

[Chaotic42]

I can tell you from personal experience that after a while, you simply peg out the heat index at a certain temperature. That was about 105-110 for me. After that, you just can't tell anymore how much hotter it might be, it's just plain Africa hot. I think the first time i ever experienced truly mad hot weather was in Kuwait... when we got on the plane in Fort Campbell, KY, it was a balmy 89 or so. About 20 hours later they opened up the ramp for us on Camp Doha, and 126 degrees smacked me in the face. Wow. That woke me up real quick.

When my uncle returned to Mississippi, in the summer no less, after being in Vietnam, he wore two jackets and a sweater during the middle of the day. He said it was freezing in Biloxi, relative to Vietnam.

I love hot and humid weather. I couldn't breathe when I moved up here because it was so dry.

 

[UltraQuiet]

Draw a straight line from somewhere around the Brunswick/Savannah, GA area over to El Paso, TX. Everthing south of that line is nothing but a precursor to hell. I lived just south of Brunswick, GA (Kingsland-there's a sub base there) for 14 years. If there is a more hot or humid place I don't ever want to go there.

 

[PsychoAndy]

Ugh. The last 2-3 weeks have been hell. When it's 95 and windy and you step outside, it just hits you, it's like putting your face in the middle of a heat vent and taking a very large breath. It's horrid. And I reside in the great state of Florida, home to Mosquitos and crazy European tourists who still flock here like a bunch of idiots.

The only thing worse is a heat wave in a large city like NYC and not having an HVAC system.

 

[glenn1]

Draw a straight line from somewhere around the Brunswick/Savannah, GA area over to El Paso, TX. Everthing south of that line is nothing but a precursor to hell.

At least Savannah is a nice, charming, genteel little town. Yeah, it gets hot, but there you can just sit down with a glass of lemonade on the porch and relax. You don't have to worry about making yourself even hotter by needing to make a mad dash away from an alligator trying to eat your ass (Florida) or some crazy slackjawed Cajun with a shotgun protecting his moonshine still from you, probably thinking all the while that you're the scouts for the invading Red Army (Louisiana).

 

[Evadman]

Why can I not vote for Illinois? It get's hotter here!

 

[IJump]

I hate LA..... Not the people, just the place...

 

[UltraQuiet]

At least Savannah is a nice, charming, genteel little town. Yeah, it gets hot, but there you can just sit down with a glass of lemonade on the porch and relax. You don't have to worry about making yourself even hotter by needing to make a mad dash away from an alligator trying to eat your ass (Florida) or some crazy slackjawed Cajun with a shotgun protecting his moonshine still from you, probably thinking all the while that you're the scouts for the invading Red Army (Louisiana).

We love Savannah, especially St. Patricks Day. We lived about 90 minutes south of there in Kings Bay. You couldn't sit on your porch there, the sand gnats (flying teeth) would eat your ass alive. It is also miserable hot/humid there from April to November.