Lived in Aus for 10 years. Humid hot and dry hot are entirely different things. One feels like suffocating heat like being in a steam oven and the other feels like there is a hole in the sky and the sun is roasting you alive.
Even though Seattle is rainy and miserable half the year, God it feels so good to smell fresh air every day. I absolutely love being surrounded by trees and mountains.
Lol, right? I've seen a lot of california people complain about seattle weather and I'm like "have you visited pretty much any other part of the world for an entire year because it ain't that bad here?"
Machismo aside, true deserts are...well, they are something. Ive lived/worked in a few, Atacama included. And, given a choice, I would pick temperate rainforest everytime
I’ve walked a few km in 46 degrees C (shade temperature, 114F). It’s another level compared to 41C which is comparatively normal. Both are dry heats though.
Apparently Chennai regularly gets 45C/80% humidity.
Even though Seattle is rainy and miserable half the year, God it feels so good to smell fresh air every day. I absolutely love being surrounded by trees and mountains.