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Try to go out with 45 degrees, with direct sunlight, etc. Some people will even faint within minutes. Because remember you don't get teleported to the shop, you
by mrkrabo 9y ago
Try to go out with 45 degrees, with direct sunlight, etc. Some people will even faint within minutes. Because remember you don't get teleported to the shop, you have to walk.
- baddox 9y agoI'm from a much milder but still hot climate, and while the summer weather probably wouldn't make you faint in minutes, people spent very little time outside of air conditioned homes, cars, and shops, and the towns were designed around that fact.
- valuearb 9y agoIt was 48 degrees in Phoenix a couple weeks ago. We all walked around outside successfully without fainting.
- Moru 9y agoI congratulate you to a good health. Here in sweden people drop dead when temp goes above 25 C. All depends on your health...
- point78 9y agoPhoenix is not even in the same conversation as Spanish cities when it comes to walking. Madrid, Barcelona and others you walk everywhere to do anything.
- Aloha 9y agohave spent much time in 110+ degree weather - you just have to hydrate.
- throwaway7645 9y agoWhat's the humidity there though? In much of the Southern US, we get temps well above 100 with very high levels of humidity. Even with hydration it is dangerous.
- CydeWeys 9y agoAs they say about Phoenix, "it's a dry heat". It's near 20% humidity during peak sunlight during the day. I've been there in really hot summer weather and I was surprised by how really high temperatures didn't feel as hot as I was expecting. To give you an idea of how much this matters, in a gentle breeze, 39.5 C at 20% humidity feels like 57.3 C at 90% humidity. People definitely don't faint within minutes in a typical Phoenix sunlight. The biggest risks are sunburn and dehydration, both of which take a lot longer.
- sokoloff 9y ago> To give you an idea of how much this matters, in a gentle breeze, 39.5 C at 20% humidity feels like 57.3 C at 90% humidity. That cannot possibly be correct.
- hueving 9y agoHumidity has a massive multiplication effect on both cold and hot temperatures. I would take 110F dry over 80F humid any day. I would also take 10F dry over 30F humid.
- sokoloff 9y agoThe prior claim was that, in a gentle breeze, 135F and 90% RH was the same as 103F and 20% RH (that hotter AND more humid was the same as less hot and drier).
- CydeWeys 9y agoSorry, I meant to say that 57.3 C at 20% humidity feels the same as 39.5 C at 90% humidity.
- hueving 9y agoI have in the Phoenix and Death Valley deserts. I think you don't understand the difference between low humidity heat and high humidity heat. The latter is intolerable and causes the problems you described. The former just requires adequate hydration.