Score
Low Mugginess
Lower sticky-air exposure scores higher using dew point, muggy hours, oppressive hours, and heat-index proxies.
Higher values rank better for this score.
How It's Calculated
The latest published score is normalized to a 0-100 scale. The method below explains what the score rewards, with technical source metadata available for audit.
How the ranking is built
Low Mugginess rewards places with fewer sticky, hot-humid hours.
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Mugginess burden is a weighted blend: 45% muggy hours, 30% oppressive hours, and 25% summer dew point excess.
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The burden is confidence-shrunk when station evidence is weaker.
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The score is inverse percentile-rank normalized over the full scored distribution, so lower sticky-air burden scores higher.
Technical details
Read from the current master score table for this criterion.
The top 10 below ignore your blended relocation weights and sort only by Low Mugginess.
What This Score Means
Low Mugginess rewards places with fewer sticky, hot-humid hours.
Statistics Feeding This Score
- Summer average dew pointSource: NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, hourly
Average summer dew point from hourly climate normals.
- Muggy hoursSource: NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, hourly
Annual hours with dew point at or above 65F.
- Oppressive hoursSource: NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, hourly
Annual hours with dew point at or above 70F.
- Station match confidenceSource: Derived from NOAA station matches
Derived from station count, distance, and elevation fit for the place.
Source Data
Known Limits
- Hourly station normals are environmental proxies, not forecasts or indoor-environment measurements.
- Nearby stations are weighted by distance and elevation fit, then lower-confidence estimates are shrunk toward the all-place mean.
- Allergy-risk scores do not include local spore counts, medical outcomes, building ventilation, or indoor humidity.
Top 10 Locations
Ranked by Low Mugginess.