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I don't disagree - but the south of USA this is just called "August"
by czbond 6y ago
I don't disagree - but the south of USA this is just called "August"
- roter 6y agoIt is hot & humid but likely not exceeding 35C. There are figures in [0] that show the 99.9% wet bulb typically is in the range 27-29C for the south eastern US. The "hot" spots are in the UAE, Iran, etc. Being close to very hot body of water does not help. [0] https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/19/eaaw1838 https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/19/eaaw1838
- raiyu 6y agoI moved from nyc to Miami and actually find the opposite. After three years here there was only one year worse than being in nyc during the summer. The summer almost feels milder here. Anecdotally of course.
- magicalhippo 6y agoIt might be >35C as read on a regular thermometer in August in the south of US. However the wet-bulb temperature[1] is, as the name implies, the temperature a thermometer covered in water-soaked cloth. If the water evaporates, it will cool the thermometer down, and as such will read less than a regular (dry-bulb) thermometer. For example, if the dry-bulb temperature is 35C and the relative humidity is 75%, then the wet-bulb temperature would be about 31C[3]. This means the body can still evaporate sweat to cool down, albeit not by much. If you got both a wet-bulb and a dry-bulb thermometer side by side, you can use it to calculate the relative humidity[2]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_temperature https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_temperature [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygrometer#Psychrometer_(wet-and-dry-bulb_thermometer) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygrometer#Psychrometer_(wet-a... [3]: https://www.psychrometric-calculator.com/HumidAirWeb.aspx https://www.psychrometric-calculator.com/HumidAirWeb.aspx