Avoid getting sweaty, but once you are, go with it. Drink before you get thirsty.
As for years, About 1979 we moved from Orange County California to the absolutely most humid place ever, Bay City in the Gulf Coast of Texas, surrounded by swamps and rice fields. After eight+ years we moved to South Carolina, not exactly the dry SW, but a lot less humid and hot than our Texas location.
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