This is my happy zone 
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Any of these is generally fine, depending on the general climate and weather patterns of a given region and given enough time to acclimate.
I thought Ireland was going to be miserable between 45° and 55° F in April but I found it perfectly adequate, if not just about ideal with a light-ish waterproof jacket and some slightly heavier than my usual shirts.
This spring / summer, I’ve been outdoors in the heat a lot more than in the past 2-3 years. What was once unbearably miserable (anything over 85°F with some mild humidity) hasn’t been too much of an issue this year, with plenty of hydration and time to acclimate. I was out in 95°+ yesterday for 5hr and didn’t really find it to be bad, as long as I kept hydrated and in the shade as much as possible.
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As I type this, my little corner of the Midwest is hotter than Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Phoenix, and Tucson.
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As someone in Dallas @Steve_O all I can say is you are welcome to being hotter, I would like us to be cooler and cooler as the summer continues, but that is just wishful thinking. I think tomorrow and Thursday we are supposed to hit 100, but that is nothing compared to last year where we had 53 days over 100 and most of those days were over 105.
With all that being said I would take our temps over Albuquerque, Phoenix, etc. any day.
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We had a crazy heat wave last week (40c +), which is very unusual for Atlantic Canada, especially this time of year. Now this week, lots of rain.
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I’ve been to Death Valley in the late fall, and the temperatures were nice. This past week’s temperatures there have been plain crazy.
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We are getting the remains of Hurricane Beryl. It’s been raining, more or less, since yesterday mid-afternoon.
As for Death Valley, I’ve experienced 122°F. I like it warm, but I’ll say no thanks to 133°F. From my experience, once you get above 110°F, 115°F or so, every additional 1° might as well be an additional 5°. It’s brutal.
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It’s 92° and I’m inside with the AC. I can’t imagine those temperatures 
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Way too hot, it’s been feeling like the high 30’s Celsius here the last few days and I can’t really stand that. Much prefer low 20’s or lower.
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I just got back into town after spending a couple of days high in the mountains, where a few snowbanks were still blocking some of the roads and trails. Here in town, the shaded thermometer outside our bedroom window says it’s unbearably hot. I wish I were still in the mountains.
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110° in the shade? Yikes.
Wow! That’s too much 
I was in las Vegas for a while this month and it got up to 120 degrees. It felt hot, but it really wasn’t too bad, I could walk around without getting sweaty or feeling gross, though I did learn that you need to wear sunscreen under your shirt if you’re going to be walking around in the sun all day.
Then I came back to Houston where there was no power for over a week because of Beryl. It felt much more miserable even though it was much cooler. I had to go spend a few days in Dallas over the weekend.
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A big difference between Las Vegas (or most places in the arid and semi-arid western US) and parts of the country further east, such as eastern Texas, is that the humidity is always very low. The low humidity allows sweat to evaporate rapidly, which cools the skin. In the eastern and southern US, the humidity is usually so high that, on hot days, sweat evaporates slower than it accumulates, so people get covered in the stuff, which inhibits the cooling effect of evaporation and also feels sticky, gross, and uncomfortable.
I checked, and right now, the humidity in Vegas is 28 percent. In Houston, it’s 75%. Whenever I fly from Salt Lake (where I live) to somewhere outside the region, the first thing I always notice when getting off the plane is the thick, heavy, wet-feeling air. I sometimes talk to people who have recently arrived in the city from more humid areas, and they notice the difference, too—only in the other direction.
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It’s bad. Trust me, it IS bad.
Here in Toronto, anything above 30ºC is the end of the world (to me anyway).
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July in Newcastle (UK) and where you’d expect anything from 18°c to 26°c and sunny (the latter being too hot for me) it’s currently alternating between 13-17°c and wet/cloudy.
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We had a pretty nice day. It was in the upper-90s, but the humidity burned off. It wasn’t desert dry, but it was plenty tolerable. Then again, I’m more of a summer person than a winter person.
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We have a heat index warning for today, 101° in Boston.
And I work in a big metal warehouse.
Gotta get the vinyl done early today.
Before it liquifies.
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