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> Hundreds of people across the country die from heatstrokes every month in the summer, and wearing less clothing won't keep you alive. Drinking water will tho
by UncleEntity 7y ago
> Hundreds of people across the country die from heatstrokes every month in the summer, and wearing less clothing won't keep you alive.
Drinking water will though...
(said as someone who's spent plenty of time outside in summer desert heat without AC and hasn't died yet)
- striking 7y agoThe other factor to preventing heat stroke is humidity. Dry heat can be okay, but if it's also too humid, you can't sweat the heat off. (this is a slight oversimplification) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_temperature#Wet-bulb_temperature_and_health https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_temperature#Wet-bulb_...
- GordonS 7y agoIf we take "extremely hot" as an example (let's say 40C), I actually find dry heat to be more unbearable than humid heat. I don't think I have any weird issues around sweating, and logically what you say makes a kind of sense, so I wonder why that might be?