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“wet-bulb” reading of 33.1
- xhkkffbf 4y agoThat's pretty humid. You can't sweat your way below the wet bulb temperature.
- Arbalest 4y agoNote that he says estimate of human survival. It could well be lower. Also some people are going to have lower thresholds than others.
- mikewarot 4y agoWhen it got to 35 C in Chicago in 1995, 739 souls were lost. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995_Chicago_heat_wave https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995_Chicago_heat_wave
- rdtwo 4y agoHow does that compare with a week of covid in context?
- dogsgobork 4y agoA quick search reveals that there have been about 15,000 deaths from covid in Cook County (The county Chicago is in, and makes up a large portion of). There's been about 110 weeks since the start of the pandemic, that averages out to about 136 deaths per week.
- rdtwo 4y agoSo probably comparable to weekly death during peak covid since it’s mostly low covid and then huge spikes
- jml7c5 4y agoNote that the wet-bulb temperature there was "just" 29 °C. The 33.1 °C reading is terrifying.
- formerkrogemp 4y ago"My world's on fire. How about yours? That's the way I like it, and I'll never get old."