What major city in the US gets the hottest and most uncomfortable during summer?

Question

I'm talking lots of days where heat indecies go above 105.

Answer 1

Phoenix, but that dry heat thing makes it much easier to live with, once you are acclimatized.

Houston may be more uncomfortable because of the combo of humidity & high temps.

Peace on Earth,

;-)

Answer 2

In about 1977 I was due to rotate assignments (I was active duty Air Force). We were in Petersburg, Virginia. We bought a book about 100 cities to live in in the US. It listed a lot of information about each of the 100 metropolitan areas they selected. We decided to move to Phoenix, AZ. It was listed as having the highest average temperature of all the cities in the book. There are hotter places but they didn't have enough population to make the cutoff.

As far as comfort goes, that is a matter of opinion. Personally I am more comfortable at 115 degrees with 1% or 2% humidity than at 90 degrees with 98% or 99% humidity.

I do recall the day I arrived in Phoenix. When I opened the car door, all I could do was gasp. I found out later, it was the 4th day of a 28 day heat wave. For 28 straight days the temperature never dropped below 100 degrees. It was hot, I recall going outside at 3:30 in the morning and the thermometer was reading 104. Make no mistake, 125 degrees, and I have seen it that high in the desert, is damn hot. But I have to tell you I found the humidity in Mississippi and Virginia to be much more uncomfortable.

BTW, that book listed Fairbanks, Alaska as the second coldest city. I think Fargo in the Dakotas got the bottom honors. After 5 years in Phoenix, Fairbanks was our next assignment. That my friend, is climate shock and them some.

Answer 3

This past summer most major US cities had a week of temperatures above 105*F, and New York City was one of them.

Answer 4

Paris has strange climate. In summer season (July August) it may get to the mid eighty's or ninety's. I stay hear and have AC through fact I stay on the best floor which gets warmth all day. of direction it gets cooler at night yet Paris could have undesirable humidity so a lot of thunderstorms.

Answer 5

I lived in Dallas when it was 111 and New York when it was 100 and humid. New York hands down was hotter than Dallas.

Answer 6

Phoneix Arizona

Answer 7

Las Vegas

Answer 8

Pheonix, Arizona!

Answer 9

Western states are hot but low humidity so it actually does something when you sweat. Atlanta is bad, muggy as heck.

Answer 10

Death Valley, CA