Penn State researchers found that the maximum wet-bulb temperature humans can endure is lower than previously thought — about 31°C wet-bulb or 87°F at 100% humidity — even for young, healthy subjects. The temperature for older populations, who are more vulnerable to heat, is likely even lower.
I’ll be honest I could’ve told you that just from living in Florida this summer.
It’s bad. Pretty much every day for the last two months if you walk outside you’ll immediately be drenched in sweat and it doesnt evaporate. There is no cooling, you’re just wet and get more and more out of breath until you get back into the air conditioning.
I’ve lived here most of my life and it’s always hot in the summer but this year feels noticeably worse and everyone I’ve talked to agrees.
I was camping out in Okeechobee last week. Two days in a row the "real feel" temp was 108. I was drenched in sweat just from sitting in the shade reading.
I've been saying for years that we need to evacuate the state. Thankfully, between RoevWade and DeSantis it looks like my family is finally coming around. Now if I can just reach my close friends.
I’ve been saying the same, originally just about sea level rise but now I’m worried about wet bulb temps too. It’s fucking baffling to me that there’s still new construction happening in Miami. Like, y’all do know it’ll be underwater in like 15 years right? What the fuck are you doing?
RIGHT?! It's already flooding down there, on the regular!🤯 Remember that building that collapsed? It's not gonna be the last. I'm reasonably sure that all the big money down there will get bailed out, but what I'm thinking is that the property getting yoinked up by the big corps are gonna get milked dry for long as possible and then offloaded at fire sale prices to people who find themselves out of luck like a decade later. Insurance companies are already seeing thewriting on the wall and jacking up rates and refusing to renew policies without costly upgrades. It's a whole thing going on, apparently. I think that's partly insurance companies bailing, but also trying to get people out of their homes for the corps to snatch them up.
that's so sad. it's possible to escape. i grew up in arizona (lol) and made it to north of the 45th parallel now. we had our first heat wave of the year (above 90f) last week. it rained every day in april.
humidity does get lower than 40% at high temperatures in non desert climates. (for example, Nashville, TN, is currently at 27%, and Columbus, OH, is at 25%)
My city in Florida actually had a fairly mild day today, it was only like 35% humidity so it was 95, real feel 98. Going outside felt like stepping into a hair dryer instead of hell.
It's gotten up to 100f in the Alaskan interior. Even on the southern coast there's rarely snow at christmas, certainly not the five or six feet or more that would happen even 30 years ago.
I’ll be honest I could’ve told you that just from living in Florida this summer.
It’s bad. Pretty much every day for the last two months if you walk outside you’ll immediately be drenched in sweat and it doesnt evaporate. There is no cooling, you’re just wet and get more and more out of breath until you get back into the air conditioning.
I’ve lived here most of my life and it’s always hot in the summer but this year feels noticeably worse and everyone I’ve talked to agrees.
I was camping out in Okeechobee last week. Two days in a row the "real feel" temp was 108. I was drenched in sweat just from sitting in the shade reading.
I've been saying for years that we need to evacuate the state. Thankfully, between RoevWade and DeSantis it looks like my family is finally coming around. Now if I can just reach my close friends.
I’ve been saying the same, originally just about sea level rise but now I’m worried about wet bulb temps too. It’s fucking baffling to me that there’s still new construction happening in Miami. Like, y’all do know it’ll be underwater in like 15 years right? What the fuck are you doing?
RIGHT?! It's already flooding down there, on the regular!🤯 Remember that building that collapsed? It's not gonna be the last. I'm reasonably sure that all the big money down there will get bailed out, but what I'm thinking is that the property getting yoinked up by the big corps are gonna get milked dry for long as possible and then offloaded at fire sale prices to people who find themselves out of luck like a decade later. Insurance companies are already seeing thewriting on the wall and jacking up rates and refusing to renew policies without costly upgrades. It's a whole thing going on, apparently. I think that's partly insurance companies bailing, but also trying to get people out of their homes for the corps to snatch them up.
one might say the rewriting is on the wall
that's so sad. it's possible to escape. i grew up in arizona (lol) and made it to north of the 45th parallel now. we had our first heat wave of the year (above 90f) last week. it rained every day in april.
North of the 45th you still have to worry about those 90+ days with high humidity.
87F wet bulb is equivalent to:
90F/88%
95F/71%
100F/57%
105F/46%
Humidity doesn't get much lower than 40% unless you're in a desert so be super careful if it ever goes over 105 up there.
i experienced the freakish "heat dome" last year, it was a wakeup call for sure. felt like being back in kingman in all the bad ways.
Whenever I think of Kingman AZ, I think of that one sascha Baron Cohen sketch where he has a bunch of Kingman residents as a focus group for the new Mosque coming to town. Try to spot the Security guards in the crowd.
what can i say; there's a reason i left
So there's a bunch of nazis there too?
:yea:
humidity does get lower than 40% at high temperatures in non desert climates. (for example, Nashville, TN, is currently at 27%, and Columbus, OH, is at 25%)
Damn, that's pretty low. Good thing they don't get bad drought or that'd be wildfire city.
My city in Florida actually had a fairly mild day today, it was only like 35% humidity so it was 95, real feel 98. Going outside felt like stepping into a hair dryer instead of hell.
It's gotten up to 100f in the Alaskan interior. Even on the southern coast there's rarely snow at christmas, certainly not the five or six feet or more that would happen even 30 years ago.
I live MUCH farther north, and I feel the same, though it was only for a couple weeks that it got as bad as you described