Before I ever visited Phoenix, I'd hear people say something that I did not understand: "yeah but it's a dry heat". So what if it's dry, it's still an oven, rig

Before I ever visited Phoenix, I'd hear people say something that I did not understand: "yeah but it's a dry heat". So what if it's dry, it's still an oven, right? But I went there for work a few times. In the summer. And the fact that it was so dry made it bearable. When the air is moist, sweating doesn't work well. Nothing is evaporating off of you, so you don't get cooled at all. But in pretty-much-nothing humidity, your sweat vanishes immediately and you are cooled. Just make sure you're drinking enough water (more than you think you need). You also get neat tricks like swamp coolers that blow a mist of water above you. You don't get wet- the water evaporates, cooling the air, which falls on you. Now do I want to live in 45C for weeks on end? Hell no. But I'd take that over 35C and 99% humidity.