Heat and Humidity

It is really starting to heat up in Indiana this summer, with temperatures in the 80s and 90s, and relative humidity at similar levels. I am from the Southwestern U.S. (Arizona and New Mexico), so I grew up with hot summers (often above 100 degrees), and with low humidity. In other words, a dry heat. I can be comfortable in very high temperatures with low humidity, but the combination of heat and humidity as we have in the Midwest in the summer just about kills me. When the humidity is low, the body can sweat and cool itself off through evaporation. But when the humidity is high, you sweat but the sweat doesn't evaporate and cool you down. For this reason, I dread the Indiana summers and probably will as long as I live here. That's also why I would never go to Florida in the summer, where the humidity is even higher. Give me that good old dry heat any day.

More Crazy Indiana Weather

In Indiana they say that if you don't like the weather, just wait 15 minutes. We were starting to have warm sunny, summer weather, and now the sun is hiding, it's cold, and it has been raining for three days. I guess we can complain about the weather, but since we can't do anything about it, we just need to learn to enjoy the changes and wait for the sun to come out again. And it will. It always does.