What’s a dry heat?

Well, if you’ve ever lived in Arizona, Nevada or any other “desert-based” cities, you’ve probably heard the expression “It’s a dry heat” bandied around quite a bit.

A bit more on this particular expressing a little later.

A dry heat is typically heat that’s associated with relatively lowered humidity. The context that you might hear the “it’s a dry heat” comment as noted above usually goes a little something like this: “Well, at least it’s a dry heat”. In other words, it’s better to have to go through a Arizona dry heat wave of 112 degrees with 20% humidity, than suffer through a 93 degree Miami heatwave with 75% humidity. And having lived both in Florida and Nevada, I can’t disagree with that. It’s what’s known as the Heat Index, and there’s solid validity associated with the above claim. Indeed, physiologically speaking, it’s actually more comfortable for the human body to deal with lower humidity heat rather than higher humidity.

Soooooooooo, the purpose of this website is to explore bad scenes – like 112 degree heat – than offer up even worse alternatives, such as the Miami heat smackdown. Things can always be worse. We certainly hope that they are – or we’d be out of a job!

Here at The Dry Heat, we’ll take our precious “things could be worse” philosophy and apply it to movies, music and technology, along with the job market and economy. Not to mention politics. Yup, here on this site, nothing is sacred: we’ll touch upon a diverse range of topics, all leading to their one common mantra – “Stop your bitchin’, ‘cuz things can always be worse”.

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