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My parents actually moved to Arizona from Chicago because they go sick of the cold weather. Apparently the cold gets harder on you the older you are; in my pare

• throw0101a 6y ago
  > Also while the summers in Arizona are hot, at least they are not humid. Its a much more easy to tolerate dry heat And by "hot", it is meant 50C in some places, in which cases planes cannot fly because of density altitude issues: * https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/06/20/533662790/its-too-hot-for-some-planes-to-fly-in-phoenix https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/06/20/533662790... IIRC, there are cooler places in Arizona as well (mountains?).
  • ghaff 6y ago
    >IIRC, there are cooler places in Arizona as well (mountains?). Yes. You get snow in the winter in places like Flagstaff. As someone who really doesn't like humid heat, I still find the low southwestern deserts relatively tolerable (not that you're going to go for a mid-day hike in the summer). That said, if I were to live in that area of the country, I would probably want to be someplace up higher.