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when the air gives up on being air and becomes warm soup you breathe.
means Describing weather that is unpleasantly warm and humid, so the air feels heavy, damp, and close.
from From an old English dialect word 'mug,' meaning mist or drizzle, likely borrowed from a Scandinavian source — Old Norse had 'mugga' for a soft, fine rain. 'Muggy' first meant damp and misty before settling into its modern sense of sticky, sweltering air.
- dew point
- Above 70F dew point is when misery officially begins
- sweat fails
- Humid air stops sweat evaporating, your cooling system jams
- word origin
- From dialect mug, meaning drizzle or mist
- feels worse
- Heat index can read 15 degrees above actual temperature
- storm bait
- Muggy days are thunderstorms loading the cannon
miami florida summer — average humidity 74% with temperatures reaching 90°f from june to september
new orleans louisiana — annual average humidity of 72% combined with heat index often exceeding 105°f
southeast asia monsoon season — bangkok and ho chi minh city experience 80%+ humidity may through october with daily rainfall