On this day 25 years ago (Commentary Thread)

[castlebravo92]

Originally Posted by bash

It's a dry heat.

It does make a difference. Sweat doesn't really cool you off in high humidity, and high humidity retains the heat deep into the night. Nothing like walking outside at midnight and it's still 100 degrees outside like it was this year.

[bash]

Originally Posted by castlebravo92

It does make a difference. Sweat doesn't really cool you off in high humidity, and high humidity retains the heat deep into the night. Nothing like walking outside at midnight and it's still 100 degrees outside like it was this year.

I've spent a lot of time in both Arizona and central Louisiana in the summer. The dry heat totally makes a difference. I've just always been a fan of the saying because I'd always hear it from my relatives in Arizona any time temperature was mentioned. I can take a dry heat. The high wet bulb temperatures of Louisiana were just ridiculous. One time I stepped off a plane onto the tarmac and it felt like stepping into a hot pool.

But all that is to say I think it's interesting to consider terrain (and weather) in all post-TDM scenarios. Without power and pumped water the Southwest US is barely habitable, certainly not at its current population. A lot of lost territory in the Mexican invasion would be territory that was effectively abandoned. Surviving populations of Tucson and Phoenix would likely head west to the Colorado or north. No sense baking and desiccating in the remains of Tucson for six months out of the year.