I grew up on the hot and humid gulf coast and was surprised after moving north that it was nearly equally hot and sticky in New York coast during summer when it

I grew up on the hot and humid gulf coast and was surprised after moving north that it was nearly equally hot and sticky in New York coast during summer when it hit 90-95 degrees. In the early mid 1990s, not every place in NY had air conditioning (because the hot summer on lasted 2 months) so it was actually worse than where I grew up. The solution in NY then was fewer clothes, fans, and getting breezes to work for you in whatever space you were staying in. I fanned myself with my church bulletin in church in the summers when it got hot.