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> summers are fine if you grew up in the desert Deserts are low precipitation, not necessarily hot. Austin is not arid. It's not West Texas. > If you've been
by drewcoo 3y ago
> summers are fine if you grew up in the desert
Deserts are low precipitation, not necessarily hot. Austin is not arid. It's not West Texas.
> If you've been to Las Vegas in the summer then imagine that temperature
In the midwest we say "it's not the heat; it's the humidity." Vegas is hotter and dryer than Austin. They might "feel" similar, but how people stay hydrated and how they stay cool will be noticeably different.
- AlotOfReading 3y agoThere are very few deserts that are arid without being hot because the primary factor limiting temperature in most habitable parts of the globe is the heat capacity of water in the area vs solar energy. That's why most of the counterexamples are polar deserts.