Derek Cole explains why high humidity makes 72°F feel like 78°F. Lowering the temperature won't help if you don't control moisture. You need both to actually be comfortable.
If humidity isn't controlled, comfort really never shows up. If you go to your thermostat and it says 72, but the humidity doesn't feel right, it feels— the home itself feels closer to 78 than 72. That's when people start saying it feels sticky in there. I keep lowering the temperature and it's reading a lower temperature, but it feels off. That's humidity. If humidity isn't controlled, comfort really never shows up. Temperatures alone will not fix a humidity problem.
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