Does Excessive Humidity Make You....

CrazyKittyLvr2 · ‎05-11-2013

feel krappy?

I was awake all night (couldn't shut my pea brain off). I finally dozed for 2 hrs. from 6 to 8 this am.

The humidity is terrible and I feel awful. I think it is 80% weather and 20% lack of sleep. I have a big glass of ice water and I just put an ice pack at the base of my spine. It helps but yikes we have several more days of this. Heat is ok, it's summer, but humidity, no. Even my joints aren't happy.

To those in this weather pattern, how are you feeling?

Deree · ‎06-30-2018

That's why I won't move south. (I'm in the NE). We're entering our 2nd heat wave of the season and the humidity is off the charts today. I just stay at home in the A/C so it doesn't bother me, although I'm not that fond of how A/C feels either.

Wear a mask. Social distance. Be part of the solution - not part of the problem.

Luvsmyfam · ‎11-26-2019

oh my goodness,I have a twin out there.i feel the exact same way.it does terrible things to my hair.i get very crabby,and my sleep is terrible.i live in a townhome where my bedroom is on the 2nd floor and of course,heat rises,so it may be freezing downstairs,it's much warmer upstairs.i always count on a higher electri bill in the summer months but turn heat way down in the winter

Mombo1 · ‎11-02-2015

@CrazyKittyLvr2 wrote:
feel krappy?

I was awake all night (couldn't shut my pea brain off). I finally dozed for 2 hrs. from 6 to 8 this am.

The humidity is terrible and I feel awful. I think it is 80% weather and 20% lack of sleep. I have a big glass of ice water and I just put an ice pack at the base of my spine. It helps but yikes we have several more days of this. Heat is ok, it's summer, but humidity, no. Even my joints aren't happy.

To those in this weather pattern, how are you feeling?

@CrazyKittyLvr2 I am a miserable person in the summer. Just take the heat or the humidity....for what it's worth...87 days until fall starts. 🍁

Foxxee · ‎10-03-2014

Here in the Northeast we had a few days of 70 degree weather during the day, in the high 40's, low 50's at night. What a treat.

Temp is 84 now at noon, going up and we will have low 90's in a few days, then back to the 80's. We always have high humidity, but nothing like Texas and Florida.

Never felt well in heat and humidity, so I hide out inside in air conditioning all summer.

Witchy Woman · ‎03-15-2010

@CrazyKittyLvr2

Humidity saps my energy, but we have AC, and I rarely have trouble sleeping (thank goodness).

However, just going outside for brief periods makes me feel tired.

On top of that, I have naturally curly hair that explodes into a giant frizzball when exposed to humidity.

I came in from being outside watering my potted tomatoes. I felt my hair "growing" when while I watered and knew it would be like cotton candy when I got inside.

I just had to laugh when I looked in the mirror.

While it is not my favorite time of year, I do try to find something beautiful in each season and focus on that.

It's a struggle when you are hot and sweaty.

chickenbutt · ‎03-09-2010

I'm asthmatic, so yeah. It's harder to breathe when the heat is accompanied by high humidity. What is sad is that we always had low humidity here (unless it's precipating or something is blowing in), that would range from the teens DOWN.

Lately, I have been seeing many days where it's from the 50s to the 70s at least. For us, that's exceedingly high and very uncomfortable for somebody like me trying to breathe.

I hate the heat anyway but it's so much more difficult when the humidity is high. I so hate that our climate here has changed so much in that we have a lot more hot weather and now higher humidity. When I was in a crossroads, a few decades ago, I contemplated moving back and decided, primarily based on the weather, to stay. Back then it was cold a LOT more than it was warm or especially hot. Now it seems like it's hot for much more of the year than it's cold.