Brutal Dew Point of 81 Degrees right now in where I live. How do you survive? Has anyone ran in worse weather?

You wear a full white robe and head covering like the Arabs do in the desert. It regulates temperature better than shorts and a singlet.

Where are you, Fort Meyers? Clearwater here. What can I tell you, you adapt or you find another sport. Also run early or run dusk and / or run whatever shaded trails you might have access too. As I presume you know 79-80 is a common summer dewpoint down here so... I can go an hour without dying, doubles are of course your friend.

Yes 84 LA Games Marathon .

85 dew point 94 F

I'm in Palm Beach County. We're experiencing about the same level of hell here currently.

Have to get up earlier to beat the really bad heat of the day and pretty much just keep it to long easy miles. It's definitely doable.

Just keep holding onto the idea of cooler days coming in the next few months.

In the DC area, the worst I've ever experience a dew point of 77. This usually happens about once a year and doesn't last long. That's when I stop trying to measure my pace and run as slow as I need to in order to avoid collapsing.

Whenever I visit my family in South Florida, a dew point of 77 is a pretty regular occurrence in the summer. Unlike the DC area, there is seldom a break from dew points of over 70 for a several month stretch. 77 is really bad, I can't imagine what 81 is like!

80 F is officially the worst dew point I've experienced. I'm in Louisiana and it's been 77-78 for the last 8 weeks or so.

I manage by running before the sun comes up and right before the sun sets. (I'd run at night but I don't want to get killed.) Sometimes I'll decide to sleep in and run during the day, and then I realize I'm really really dumb. 90 degrees with a 78 dew point has almost killed me a couple of times.

And slow down. Don't worry about pace, just run slow.

Central Florida here. I haven't run all summer because of an injury, but everyone tells me that this has been the worst summer to train through in memory.

In past years, I simply plowed through it and adapted. The only real accommodations that I make are to (I) find water stops on my runs (even if that means going into random front yards and using their hose), (ii) have at least two pairs of shoes in my rotation (because they will get so sloshy within six miles of any run that they will not dry out for the next day if I forget to stuff them with newspaper), and (iii) choose running in shade over running tangents.

I kind of go contrarian and usually do one of my easy runs each week in the middle of the day to try to further adaptation.

Finally, in Central Florida, we used to get afternoon thunderstorms pretty regularly, although that has not been the case so much this summer. I would definitely try to time my runs for those storms (and would often leave work to get my run in if I saw a storm brewing) just to get relief from the rain. I wouldn't suggest this to anyone else as it creates a legit chance of injury from lightning and falling debris.

I live in Phoenix..the highest dew point I had to contend with this summer at 5am was 71. 91 degrees with a 71 degree dew point.

But, its a dry heat..I have lived here 4 years full time and have never understood this.

tdcv wrote:

I live in Phoenix..the highest dew point I had to contend with this summer at 5am was 71. 91 degrees with a 71 degree dew point.

But, its a dry heat..I have lived here 4 years full time and have never understood this.

That's the highest you've seen in 4 years? Yes, it's a dry heat.

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tdcv wrote:

I live in Phoenix..the highest dew point I had to contend with this summer at 5am was 71. 91 degrees with a 71 degree dew point.

But, its a dry heat..I have lived here 4 years full time and have never understood this.

That's the highest you've seen in 4 years? Yes, it's a dry heat.

I'd take dry heat over humidity any day of the year and then some.

Last night I ran a workout in Orlando. The temp was 90 degrees as the sun was setting. Humidity was approaching 60%. I felt like my fitness was locked in a box made of heat.

Shorter ran 150 miles a week in Florida. Mind over matter, bro.

all the best man

fred wrote:

Shorter ran 150 miles a week in Florida. Mind over matter, bro.

Shorter went elsewhere in the summer. Taos, Boulder and Vail are not exactly Gainesville in summer.

Llc coco wrote:

Last night I ran a workout in Orlando. The temp was 90 degrees as the sun was setting. Humidity was approaching 60%. I felt like my fitness was locked in a box made of heat.

So there is probably a 90% chance we know each other.

Flateastern Virginia. 81 dew point with low 90s temp at 7 pm is the worst I've run in. I've run during the day with lower numbers on both figures and felt worse, but that's the highest numbers wise. It's hell and you won't hit 30 secs a mile over easy pace. A tempo effort really isn't sustainable when it's like that.

Chuckle speedo wrote:

Yes 84 LA Games Marathon .

85 dew point 94 F

I was there, lived in LA, and I doubt they ever had a dew point that high.

Kvothe wrote:

Flateastern Virginia. 81 dew point with low 90s temp at 7 pm is the worst I've run in. I've run during the day with lower numbers on both figures and felt worse, but that's the highest numbers wise. It's hell and you won't hit 30 secs a mile over easy pace. A tempo effort really isn't sustainable when it's like that.

FYI to all those quoting "official dew pt" #'s - take it with a grain of salt. I am not saying it ain't high, but the exact #? I've learned from looking at Wunderground that the dew pts listed for various stations will be all over the place with huge variation. There is no way there is actually that big of a difference between several places only a few miles away. Of course this happens with temp too, but the #'s for dew pts are even more all over the place. So......if you read 77 or 80 or 82....... one day and "only" 73 the next or on another weather site or for another location, there may have been no actual change. I wouldn't take these single readings too seriously. I sometimes look at "nearby weather stations" and eliminate outliers, and kinda take an avg of some of the various listings near me. This gives me a rough idea of something close to the actual reading.

(I remember once arguing with a guy on here who claimed he ran in X degrees heat, and I asked him where he got that # from, and he said "bank temp listing" ??? When I questioned the accuracy of that, he replied huffily- " I'm pretty sure a bank can take an accurate temp reading, thermometers are not that complicated." sigh)

sub16_5k wrote:

Just looking at my weather app and the dew point right now where I live (SW Florida) is 81 degrees

For instance, I just looked at several cities and several weather stations for SW FL and last night at 11:00 I am seeing 75-76 dew pts. Quite high, but not 81.