Places with lowest humidity?
 

Okay, I'm dying here!!! I'm in the Richmond area, and the heat & humidity are killing me! What places in the U.S. have low humidity during the summer??? This is unbearable! Thanks!!!

Las Vegas
Tucson Arizona
Palm Springs

Those are my guesses. Wherever you decide to go, let me know, I am sick of this humidity too!!!

Hello from Northwest Montana.
Temp today was 78degrees with humidity at 18percent.
Tonights low will be 46degrees.
Sleep with windows open and 2 blankets.
Ideal? We think so!!!

Upper Michigan, especially Macinac (sp?) Island, might tempt you.

I'm with John, but would expand the area to the Pacific NW, including Seattle and Portland. The weather in the summers here is ideal.

Nevada is the driest state with Utah the second driest, so my vote is Utah and Nevada. You do notice the lack of humidity but you also notice small animals combusting into flames before your eyes when its 118 degrees!! :)

Probably the best place I have found for low humidity and decent (actually near-perfect) temperatures would be San Diego. Nice city also!!

Being from Texas, I feel for you. We head to Montana every summer to escape the heat and humudity. The drawback is that my face starts looking years older from the dryness.

Colorado! Seventy eight degrees today, sunny blue skies, crystal clear views of the Rockies. Only drawback is the lack of water for boating, skiing, swimming, etc. but hey, I'll who needs it when the weather is this nice?

The Canadian Rockies. Calgary, Banff, Jaspar. Perfect vacation spot in August. Cool mornings and evenings. Perfect sleeping weather, like the mid-Fall in NYC.

I LOVE humidity! When I go to Las Vegas my skin gets dry and my nose bleeds. I am leaving this week for the Philippines and am looking forward to the humidity!

Sorry-I went off on a tangent. San Francisco has very little humidity!

Flagstaff Arizona is low humidity, rarely above 82 in summer and beautiful

To Montana & Colorado respondents:
I hate you.

Any more suggestions?
Thanks

dln, the island is spelled Mackinac.

Mackinac Island in the Straits, or Mackinaw City 9 miles away at the northern most point in Michigan's lower penninusla rarely go above 80 degrees and have low humidity.

Be sure you take a jacket for the evenings.

Keith

Hello from San Diego!

I spent my freshman year of college in Boston. I thought I had woken up in hell the first time I experienced east coast 'humidity'. I had grown up in San Diego and had never encountered anything like it!

San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, NO Humidity!

Denver and the Colorado Rockies. I have lotion in every room of the house and chapstick in every pocket! I can fill my humidifier 3 times a day. I wonder why there aren't rain clouds in my house!

Las Vegas, anywhere in Arizona, and Palm Desert or Palm Springs in California. San Francisco actually is relatively humid especially n the summer because of teh persistent fog. Whenever fog develops the hunidity is around 100%.

Just returned from Mackinac Island and it was heavenly! Beautiful sunny warm days, cool evenings.
I can't wait to go back again - someday!
Here in the real world (Ohio) it is hot and humid (but not as hot as Texas, our former residence!)

I have a suggestion Linda, install central air and a dehumidifier.

Are you kidding? We HAVE central air!
You're fine as long as you don't go outside!!!
(gee, that's a fun summer........)

Do you really have trouble with dry skin in the places with low humidity?

Another silly question, does your face actually look "older" from the dry skin due to lack of humidity? (I should look like I'm about 5 years old here!)

Yes, low hunidity for me means dry skin, and pretty constant thrist; I'm talking humidity in the teens.
Kikahead, you say SF has low humidity? Not the SF I know! That damp chill off the water will slay you just as bad as hot humidity!

Yikes-I have GOT to learn to preview, or type! Low humidity=dry skin and thirst. Sorry!

Don't come to Savannah, Ga.
it is 93 with 100% humidity. aaaahhh. And I work outside!!

I'm glad to hear about Colorado! I'm from DC (I feel for you, Linda!), and I am going to Colorado in early September. Can't wait.

Myrna - (and this is totally in fun):

you obviously don't live in a place with high humidity. Come to DC in August (or today, for that matter), and go from you central a/c-ed house to the a/c-ed car to the a/c-ed office to the a/c-ed grocery store or whatever. Then, since you didn't bring lunch, walk outside of your office building 2 blocks to the deli in 95 degree, 98% humidity, come back, and realize in 4 minutes of being outside you have sweat enough that the dress you just got back from the cleaners will have to go back again. :)

Karen

blueagave and kaudrey,

Relative humidity as high as you claim does not occur. If it is 93 in Savannah with 100% humidity, that would mean the dew point is 93 F. A dew point that high has never been recorded in North America. I just checked weather.com and the current temperature in Savannah is 90 F and the humidity is 59%.

I remember my first trip to the pacific ocean. I wondered how they could have so much water and such low humidity.

Another day of temps. over 90 and humidity to match. YUCK.

Last night on the local news weather report, the weatherman was trying to make us feel better by giving the weather for a town in Saudi Arabia. The temp there yesterday was 107 there with a dewpoint of 92 (they go that high?!?) so the town had a heat index temp of over 170. Guess where I'm not going in the summer.

Linda, last year after suffering through another miserable (temp. wise) 7/4 holiday I asked about low humidity places. Spokane, Washington was mentioned. I think anywhere high in the mountains would do.

ncgirl,

A dewpoint that high has not been recorded in North America, only the Middle East.

We spent last week in Scottsdale, AZ. Temps were 110 days/97 nights, with very low humidity. I felt great, no aches & pains (arthritis), never got hoarse (asthma due to years of smoking, even 15 years after quitting). Of course, the pavement burned the soles of my feet at the pool and getting into a car after even 1/2 hour was quite an experience, not to mention even touching any interior car surface that was not cloth-covered. But then we came back to the northeast, it's 90 w/98% humidity & I feel lousy again!

Dry heat any day!

Right now, at 9am in San Diego, the temperature is 66F and the humidity is 73%. This will change over the course of the day, but it is never as humid here as it is in, for instance Louisiana, where I lived for a year. Mostly it's extremely pleasant here, with enough humidity so your skin doesn't wrinkle up (unless you're foolish enough to spend all your time in the sun without any kind of protection).

For the record, here in Austin it's now 84 with humidity at 76%. It will get worse. Much worse.

I lived a very loooong 3 years in Midland, TX. Very dry. (I used to hang clothes on the clothesline and on a sunny day they were dry in less than 30 mintues..) My hair and skin were dreadful when I lived there. Of course the water there was full of all sorts of nasty minerals too. But the dry air was the pits.

So Cal here. We do get a bit of humidity in the mornings when there is still overcast, but it burns off by mid-morning to clear, bright, sunny, hot, and LOW humidity!

As far as dryness and skin/hair? I use a moisturizing shampoo and conditioner, and it's not a problem. (And without humidity, my hair doesn't do the "frizz" act) As far as skin? I moisturize once a day. And I'm constantly told I look 10 years younger than I am. Oh, and I've lived in So Cal since I was 2.

Been in the humidity in the north east, Texas, and the midwest. I've not a clue how people survive there during the summer months. To me, it's insanity - especially coupled with freezing temps and snow in the winter!

Just curious, how is Michigan?
Minnesota? Wisconson?

Linda, Mackinaw City & Mackinaw Island are in Michigan.

Keith

Was in the Canadian Rockies last summer (Banff and Jasper) which was very pleasant. Low humidity and mild temps with cool evenings that were great for sleeping. Just last week I was in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. I think it was even dryer there and also mild temps. Both are great vacation spots with plenty to do if you like the outdoors. Rafting and kayaking were spectacular, scenery was gorgeous, and awesome hiking if you're into that.

Thanks everyone! We are looking for a place to go in August to COOL OFF!!!
Now we have lots of suggestions!
(may even consider MOVING!!!)

The Pacific NW has nearly perfect summer weather--lots of sun, just right humidity (not so low that it's drying to your skin, but definitely not humid), and usually warm, but not hot temps. And it usually cools off at night (i.e., you could have a daytime high of 84 degrees, dropping to mid 50s at night).
The small town of Sequim (pronounced Skwim) on Washington State's Olympic Peninsula has what I consider an almost perfect climate--feels like late spring about 8 months of the year. Roses start blooming in late Feb., keep going all year til mid/late December, and then take about 6 weeks off for the winter. Fresh sea breezes, mountain air, lots of sun--ahhh....nearby Port Townsend is slightly rainier year round and cooler in winter, but the climate is overall still quite mild and pleasant.