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> ... 95F (35C) at 100% humidity Last summer in Europe there's been 38C for weeks in several places/countries. I was on the Atlantic side (for once), not even

> ... 95F (35C) at 100% humidity Last summer in Europe there's been 38C for weeks in several places/countries. I was on the Atlantic side (for once), not even much south, and had 38C. We were cycling daily (without electric assistance) to the beach, under the sun, and had zero AC at home. It was hot but nobody there died. I used my car once while the rest of the group was cycling because I wanted my car's AC and music but that's it. It was very hard to enter a water at 17C (Atlantic side, huge tides, very cold water there) while the temperature was 38C outside but besides that meh. Is "100% humidity" a value that even make sense? Spain regularly gets 40C+. I lived in Spain about five months a year for five years straight. 35C is really common there. So I don't get it: "You can die at 28C with 100% humidity". OK, I don't dispute that. But where do you get 100% humidity? For example Morocco / Marrakesh is 41C today. It's pretty normal there.

jeffbee 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_temperature https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_temperature
andsoitis 3y ago
> Is "100% humidity" a value that even make sense? According to the National Weather Service, "If the relative humidity is 100 percent (i.e., dewpoint temperature and actual air temperature are the same), this does NOT necessarily mean that precipitation will occur. It simply means that the maximum amount of moisture is in the air at the particular temperature the air is at." https://www.weather.gov/lmk/humidity#:~:text=If%20the%20relative%20humidity%20is,temperature%20the%20air%20is%20at https://www.weather.gov/lmk/humidity#:~:text=If%20the%20rela....
friend_and_foe 3y ago
You get 100% humidity basically any time you're near a large body of water that has been hot and then the air cooled. So usually on hot days like that along the coast, as the sun goes down you'll notice lots of things just getting wet, that's due to the 100% humidity.

jeffbee 3y ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_temperature https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_temperature

andsoitis 3y ago

> Is "100% humidity" a value that even make sense? According to the National Weather Service, "If the relative humidity is 100 percent (i.e., dewpoint temperature and actual air temperature are the same), this does NOT necessarily mean that precipitation will occur. It simply means that the maximum amount of moisture is in the air at the particular temperature the air is at." https://www.weather.gov/lmk/humidity#:~:text=If%20the%20relative%20humidity%20is,temperature%20the%20air%20is%20at https://www.weather.gov/lmk/humidity#:~:text=If%20the%20rela....

friend_and_foe 3y ago

You get 100% humidity basically any time you're near a large body of water that has been hot and then the air cooled. So usually on hot days like that along the coast, as the sun goes down you'll notice lots of things just getting wet, that's due to the 100% humidity.