These Maps Show How Many Brutally Hot Days You Will Suffer When You're Old
http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2014/06/how-many-really-hot-days-there-will-be-time-you-are-old
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I think columnist Dave Barry captured the reality of Florida's heat and humidity in this classic column from 1987 (and it's only gotten hotter since then)
http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/10/14/3043758/humidity-its-not-the-heat-its.html
Humidity: It's not the heat, it's the floating snakes
The main reason my family and I moved to South Florida is that we, like so many others, wanted to live in an area of extremely high humidity. We had been living in the Philadelphia area, which is reasonably moist, but which also suffers from long stretches of drier weather -- we called these stretches "fall, " "winter" and "spring" -- that really got on our nerves. "If I hear one more gloriously multihued leaf rustle in the crisp autumn air, I shall go insane!" we would frequently remark.
South Florida owes its tremendous natural wetness to the fact that it is bounded on the east by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by the Everglades, on the bottom by a pulsating mass of decaying swamp matter and on the top by a layer of steaming air so dense you can let go of a small object, such as a paper clip or Dr. Ruth Westheimer, and it will just hang there, in midair, suspended by humidity like chunks of pineapple in a Jell-O dessert. This is why you never hear the mosquitoes down here before they get you. They don't have to flap their wings. They merely float in the humidity, motionless, with their little bloodsucking tubes pointed straight out, waiting for you to bumble into them. Also, on certain days there are airborne snakes. This is one reason why, during the height of the Humid Season (March through February), most people never go outside for any length of time except to be buried.
All of this makes air conditioning very important, especially at night. I find it very relaxing to lie in bed, listening to the soothing drone of the air conditioner. "Drrrooooooonnnnnnnnne, " it says, until I'm just about to nod off, at which time it says: "YOUR ELECTRICITY BILL SO FAR THIS WEEK IS THREE HUNDRED SIXTY SEVEN DOLLARS AND EIGHTY-TWO CENTS HAHAHAHAHA." This makes me think maybe I had better give the air conditioning a break, so I turn it off and open the windows to let in the refreshing night air, which comes oozing through the screens like barbecue sauce through a paper towel, carrying with it the pleasant, rhythmic whoop of a burglar alarm going off in the distance: The Official Noise of South Florida. I welcome it, because it means that All Is Well. A real burglar would have deactivated the alarm long ago.
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/10/14/3043758/humidity-its-not-the-heat-its.html#storylink=cpy
There is nothing prettier than a bright, crisp October day with fall foliage in full color! 
It's not also showing what will be underwater by that time.
(I do like that they have me being born 1981-2000 though. )
I'm curious too as to how humidity will play into all of this. We just got out of some hot and humid weather in SoCal and the temperature weren't that high but it was so much worse than when the temps were 10 degrees hotter due to the humidity. That old "but it's a dry heat" is actually true! And then it rained one night which is rare for July. There's a lot at play with this global warming and it's not going to be pretty.
and drought threatened redwood forests 
Are they going by IPCC estimates, when they talk about "business as usual" projections, or something else? 
