By Wendy Langhans “Muggy” is not a word I would normally use to
describe summers in our Santa Clarita Valley. “Hot”, yes, but
not “muggy”. Of course, muggy depends on what you are used to,
but in the continental U.S., it usually begins to feel muggy
when the dew point is above 65 °F . For me, the air is muggy is
when I begin to “feel” the thickness of the air and the sweat on
my skin refuses to evaporate. And I could feel the air last
Tuesday in Minneapolis. The dew point at the airport reached a
whopping 82 degrees, the highest recorded dew point since they
began taking measurements there in 1945. According to one source
, “A handful of locations in the United States have seen dew
points as high as 90 °F, especially in Florida and Louisiana.”
As a point of comparision, other sources claim the highest dew
point  ever recorded was 95 °F. This occurred in Dhahran, Saudi
Arabia at 3PM on July 8, 2003. Are you interested in events and
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