Idahoans prefer life lukewarm

Some like it hot.

Idahoans, not so much.

The Weather Channel recently surveyed weather.com users across the country to determine how hot is too hot. Idahoans represented the low end of the thermometer spectrum, saying 85 degrees was just too warm. It's fair to wonder what they'll be thinking when the mercury goes 20 degrees or so higher than that in just a few days.

The weather.com "forecast factor" showed about 68 percent of those surveyed associated a temperature between 85 and 95 degrees as too hot to enjoy, with 90 degrees being the tipping point for about 22 percent of the people. Either side of that range, 5 percent said a temperature between 70 and 79 degrees was too hot while 2 percent said they could handle the heat until it was about 101-105 degrees.

As you might expect, most states in northern climates had a lower threshold for summer's heat than states in the South.

"It turns out the answer to the question 'how hot is too hot for you?' is dependent not so much on who you are, but where you live. The effect of weather on all us, as in politics, is all local," said Paul Walsh of The Weather Channel.

Arizona and Nevada tied for the highest median temperature, both coming in at 100 degrees. The lowest median temperature by state was 85 degrees in Michigan, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, Washington, Vermont, Rhode Island, Idaho and South Dakota.

Below is a state-by-state list of the temperature threshold for what was considered too hot in the Lower 48 states, according to the survey results:

100 degrees: Arizona, Nevada

95 degrees: Texas, Arkansas, Utah

93 degrees: Mississippi, North Dakota

90 degrees: Florida, Illinois, Virginia, California, North Carolina, Georgia, Missouri, Tennessee, Maryland, Connecticut, South Carolina, Kansas, Nebraska, Kentucky, Alabama, Delaware, Oregon, West Virginia, Oklahoma, Louisiana, New Mexico

89 degrees: Pennsylvania, Wyoming

88 degrees: New Jersey, Indiana, Colorado, New Hampshire, Maine

87 degrees: New York, Ohio, Minnesota, Iowa, Montana

85 degrees: Michigan, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, Washington, Vermont, Rhode Island, Idaho, South Dakota

Regionally, the trigger point for what was considered too hot varied from 94 degrees in the Southwest to 85 degrees in the Upper Midwest.

On a local level, the Phoenix metro area had the highest threshold at 103 degrees, while Detroit and Grand Rapids, Michigan, had the lowest with 85 degrees being the median.

The data for this survey was collected from weather.com users May 27-June 9, 2015. No statistically significant differences were found in the survey results for gender or age.