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Originally Posted by Paperbackstash
Ireland is my #1 wishlist for a place to visit.
I'm sure the humidity with the rain there can be intense.
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Not really. You need heat for humidity, and the Atlantic Archipelago (as someone trying *really hard* to avoid the ever-vexed Irish Question once dubbed it) just doesn't often get hot enough for that, not even in these global warming times. It's not really that humid when it's pouring with rain, let alone at other times.
I do have a (small) dehumidifier, but it's never on except at the height of summer, and then it's more to remove the smell from drying plaster from an unfortunate plumbing incident a few years ago than to actually reduce the humidity. Having sweat running down you because of the humidity is extremely rare (I can remember it happening two or three times in the last decade). This is one reason why aircon is uncommon in UK domestic properties: because the humidity is relatively low, sweating works properly and aircon is less necessary. My high summer "air conditioner" is a bottle of frozen water sitting in a flat-bottomed bowl, with a USB-powered fan blowing air past it into my face. That's good enough.
The humidity in the southern US, let alone points further south, sounds unbearable to me. The power requirements to make that hellzone livable sound even worse.