in south_texasland "desert," the other day I noticed the heat index was 113F (45C) only 50 miles inland from Gulf of Mexico. July & August will be "interesting" aka HOT, but most discomfort I ever experienced was in New Orleans. fwiw, I operate a "quality controlled" weather station for NOAA.
Extreme temperature swings over a 24 hr or less period are fairly routine where I live, mainly during the Winter months. It's not uncommon to get 20 C or more swings, the worst of which are going from typically about +10 C to a frigid -20 C or colder. It's much nicer when we go from cold to warm. Thank goodness for the occasional Chinooks
Chinooks are warm, dry, gusty, westerly winds that blow down from the Rocky Mountains into the mountains' eastern slopes and the western prairies. The Chinook...