Does high humidity in high temperatures ever make you feel like you can't breathe?

[raccoon]

It does me....I guess I can breathe, I'm still here. But sometimes it seems more difficult to breathe.

[texanwitch]

1. I hate humidity.

You nevr get used to it.

[RebelOne]

2. Yes, definitely. I cannot stand the humidity.

Even though, it has been hot here in North Georgia, the humidity has been low and I have not had any problems breathing. But when the humidity gets very high, I do have a problem breathing when I am outside.

[hifiguy]

3. It is the WORST.

Back in August 2001 I was moving. Temps were 95-102 for two weeks solid with tropical humidity - in Minnesota. It was so bad that a Vikings offensive lineman, Korey Stringer, keeled over and died from overheating during training camp. I was getting the spins carrying boxes to the truck, but I kept guzzling Gatorade every time I felt even slightly goofy from the heat.

Walking out from an air-conditioned building into humid heat always makes me feel woozy and like I'm in the belly of a whale.

[HopeHoops]

4. That's why I came back inside an hour ago.

[pipi_k]

5. Sure does...especially

bad when the air is stagnant, has been sitting around in one place for a few days, and is full of pollutants.

Also, the pollen has been absolutely horrific this year. Even people who never had trouble with it have been complaining.

[csziggy]

6. I grew gills to avoid that feeling

Being a native Floridian and all, it just seemed practical.

[kentauros]

7. No.

Just the opposite

[MiddleFingerMom]

8. Even with low humidity, at 108 degrees +, it's like inhaling sharply while opening the oven door.

[ChazII]

14. Good description

of our dry heat.

Only 113 this weekend up here in the Tempe area.

[fizzgig]

9. every time

i live near the foothills of colorado - thin, dry air. my mom lives in western illinois and we usually visit her for her birthday in july. i feel like i'm going to pass out for most of the trip because the air is so heavy.

[WilmywoodNCparalegal]

10. 2 months ago, I moved to Las Vegas from SE North Carolina

Sure, it's 108 or so degrees here, but it feels better than 95 degrees and high humidity. I don't miss humidity at all, or the mosquitoes and gnats either.

Give me 108 dry heat degrees any day.

[SammyWinstonJack]

11. When the wind blows, it's gonna feel like a blast furnance. I lived in Vegas for awhile

and grew up in the High Desert of SoCal.

Spent lots of time on the Colorado River @Laughlin/Bullhead City and Lake Havasu.

Blast furnance weather.

Still, I'd take that, over humidity.

I've got to get out of Tx.

[shanti]

13. Lake Havascrew

definitely blast furnace weather! it's one of three places i've been physically ill from the heat. the other two (garberville and boonville) were in northern california, in the summer. i've also felt the heat and humidity in jamaica, and prefer dry over humid. the humidity does make the air heavy and hard to breathe, as well as making one's hair feeling gummy.

[bigwillq]

12. Yes (nt)

[emilyg]

15. Yes.

[Populist_Prole]

16. I always say I need 2 noses and 2 sets of lungs to get enough oxygen when it's humid out

That and I just can't wipe the sweat off fast enough. I'm not overweight but sweat more than anyone else I know: I absolutely abhor the clammy feeling and damp clothes this causes. I must have SAE 90 Weight blood or something.

[MiddleFingerMom]

17. 18 years old and in GREAT shape (slightly UNDERweight), I went thru medic training...

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... outside San Antonio. We'd do our 2-mile run at 6 AM. The guys in front of me would
have little triangles of sweat at the base of their backs. My ENTIRE shirt would be
wringing wet.
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