During one such heat wave in the NE I sailed 4 times in 2 days between Greenport and Block Island. Same principle as TomY in Maine - cool water keeps you comfortable. At one point I had goose pimples. Maybe it was from the pea soup fog.
Here in Fl. today we might not reach 90. It's humid 'though. You can sit on a beach, in the shade, for a few hours and not be uncomfortable especially if you swim and if there is a breeze. You would not want to be in a drifter sailboat race.
I have a theory that the really uncomfortable air mass that is affecting the NE this week has it origin from the Gulf of Mexico where dry hot air off the desert picks up humidity in the Gulf and flows Northward into the Mid West and then up the Ohio Valley to the NE curtesy of the Bermuda high. South Florida doesn't really get that air mass and can have lower temps than the NE in Summer heat waves. In South Florida the Bermuda high is pumping air from the East/Northeast which is not as hot. It is very humid 'though.
Here in Fl. today we might not reach 90. It's humid 'though. You can sit on a beach, in the shade, for a few hours and not be uncomfortable especially if you swim and if there is a breeze. You would not want to be in a drifter sailboat race.
I have a theory that the really uncomfortable air mass that is affecting the NE this week has it origin from the Gulf of Mexico where dry hot air off the desert picks up humidity in the Gulf and flows Northward into the Mid West and then up the Ohio Valley to the NE curtesy of the Bermuda high. South Florida doesn't really get that air mass and can have lower temps than the NE in Summer heat waves. In South Florida the Bermuda high is pumping air from the East/Northeast which is not as hot. It is very humid 'though.