What Part of the American South Gets the Hottest in Summer?

[Bballfan123]

Need people who have LIVED in the Deep South for years not vacationed

I am looking for the answer to a very specific question: what part of the American Deep South (Texas, Alabama, Mississippi Louisiana) gets the hottest at the peak of summer? Not the hottest year round mathematically but the absolute peak of "Feels Like" or 'Heat Index' temperature
I am talking places where heat index hits 120 130 you get out of your car and die HOT
The hottest I have ever personally seen is 134 in south Ohio on an extremely humid day, which made people pass out but it was only for a couple hours. Was 122 consistently in South Carolina for several days in a row on vacation and I was wondering is anywhere hotter than that.

Is there some remote region of the giant swamp that hits 130 or 140 heat index?


I have done some research and come up with this list of contenders

1. Brownsville San Antonio deep south Texas region
2. Somewhere deep in the bayou of Louisiana or Mississippi
3. Appalachia region (which gets WAY hotter than you would think due to humidity)
4. Somewhere in the Carolinas
5. Random place in Alabama
What is the hottest place

 

[Pittie Petey]

Texas isnt the deep south

 

[shunyata]

Texas isnt the deep south

Yes, but southern Texas and southern Florida are the furthest south areas of the US.

And south Texas would be one of the hotter regions.

 

[560ti]

I've been told Houston is miserable in the summer. It's basically rio grande valley base temps combined with gulf humidity

 

[Iron Mang]

I lived in South Carolina for five years. Peak summer heat in August was hoootttttt! As long as you have air condition and you’re not outside for long periods of time, you’d be fine. Humidity felt thick, almost blanket-like.

 

[Bballfan123]

Texas isnt the deep south

I have never been there so even if culturally it isn't similar to Louisiana it is still in the South and eligible
I also put deep south Texas referring to Brownsville's location in the south part of Texas. Not Deep South Texas but literally, deep south Texas.

The desert southwest is not eligible because it's strange and too far away/ not in 'the South'.

 

[HARRISON_3]

Deep South Texas is indeed hot af

 

[DaleBoca]

I don’t know about the South but Death Valley was a nice breezy 122 and is still 115+ right now. Not that I live there, but I’m always curious in the summer months how hot it gets. It was 105ish where I live today in SoCal.

 

[Texan6533]

Depends on what you mean by hot though. There’s arid desert hot which probably have higher numbers, but then there’s testicle sticking to your leg hot in Louisiana / Alabama / Mississippi

 

[12ga.]

All of it is a GD swamp. I grew up is So Louisiana and now live in FL. Unless close to coast...June-Aug is gonna require two-three showers a day to feel human. I'd say its almost more uncomfortable than hottest spots in earth like death valley Ca, Vegas, or Saudi Arabia....but last few years they hitting 130 and shit with global warming. Still 100 in the south is murder.

 

[shunyata]

Depends on what you mean by hot though. There’s arid desert hot which probably have higher numbers, but then there’s testicle sticking to your leg hot in Louisiana / Alabama / Mississippi

I should have put deodorant on my balls hot.

 

[Bballfan123]

Depends on what you mean by hot though. There’s arid desert hot which probably have higher numbers, but then there’s testicle sticking to your leg hot in Louisiana / Alabama / Mississippi

Specifically testicle sticking to your leg humid hot NOT desert heat, which is a different ballgame. I mean Heat Index pushing 130 places just out of curiosity.

All of it is a GD swamp. I grew up is So Louisiana and now live in FL. Unless close to coast...June-Aug is gonna require two-three showers a day to feel human. I'd say its almost more uncomfortable than hottest spots in earth like death valley Ca, Vegas, or Saudi Arabia....but last few years they hitting 130 and shit with global warming. Still 100 in the south is murder.

What in your opinion is hotter, Louisiana or Florida? Is there a place in Louisiana hotter than the rest or is it all somewhat similar? Like some small town on the bayou that just seems ungodly hot for some reason.

 

[12ga.]

Depends on what you mean by hot though. There’s arid desert hot which probably have higher numbers, but then there’s testicle sticking to your leg hot in Louisiana / Alabama / Mississippi

Not so bad near coast...and after 3 pm since it rains seemingly every day at 3 pm to take heat away. I live in pensacola but go a mere 10 miles inland where we have some property and it's like I feel underwater in a hot tub especially when you do physical labor.

 

[Blacksonville]

I live in Florida. It's Florida. You get 100 degrees plus swamp ass humidity.

"Halfback" is the term for people from up north who move here but after experiencing a few summers, wind up going halfway back, to the Carolinas or maybe VA, for a more temperate climate.

 

[lowlife]

There's plenty nights in the summer in Houston where it doesn't go below 80 with high humidity. Plus it's a big ass heat island with the miles and miles of concrete and roadway. I would hate to imagine anywhere more miserably hot than this.

 

[RollSonnenRoll]

Between living in Georgia and Alabama, it was Alabama and not even close.

 

[Gracious Warrior]

I'm surprised no one mentioned Arizona yet. I went to community college there in Mesa. And I tell you once it got into mid summer the heat was dead!y. Like if you were outside in the afternoon for more than an hour without shade and water then you were basically taking your life into your hands. I never saw so many people catching heat strokes in my life, like a legit 4 or 5 people just at school. It's sad now that I think about it because Arizona was such a beautiful place. Some of the landscapes were breathtaking and the waters were pristine and beautiful. A real treat for nature lovers and outdoorsmen. But those summers were hell on earth.

 

[Bballfan123]

Between living in Georgia and Alabama, it was Alabama and not even close.

Is it hotter in a city in Alabama or somewhere out in the swamp

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Lol at Texas as the south.

All the true Deep South states should be offended.

 

[Krixes]

I'm surprised no one mentioned Arizona yet. I went to community college there in Mesa. And I tell you once it got into mid summer the heat was dead!y. Like if you were outside in the afternoon for more than an hour without shade and water then you were basically taking your life into your hands. I never saw so many people catching heat strokes in my life, like a legit 4 or 5 people just at school. It's sad now that I think about it because Arizona was such a beautiful place. Some of the landscapes were breathtaking and the waters were pristine and beautiful. A real treat for nature lovers and outdoorsmen. But those summers were hell on earth.

I'm in Southern, AZ and it's scorching hot every summer. During monsoon season it's the worst, it can be 115-120 degrees with nasty humidity. People always refer AZ as dry heat but they forget about monsoon season in the summer.

My sister lives in South Carolina and the humidity will soak you in the summer.