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Wet bulb temps are lethal if you don't have external cooling. Houston has AC and cold water though.

somenameforme 3y ago
Not everybody. Lots of people work outdoors for 6+ hour shifts, have transport jobs without AC, and so on. You could also consider primitive cultures. I know the Amazon can get upwards of 40C. I am not as familiar with the humidity on these days, beyond the fact that it's hella humid. And 40C + 70% = 35 wet bulb. If the 35 wet bulb hypothesis was valid, then literally one solitary day of this, regardless of how infrequent, would have killed everybody in the Amazon. There are also many other areas along the equator with high temperature, high humidity, and lots of people without access to AC. Something just doesn't seem right.
- CalRobert 3y ago
  This would suggest Brazil's record wet bulb temps are in the low 30's https://news.climate.columbia.edu/wp-content/themes/sotp-foundation/dataviz/heat-humidity-map/ https://news.climate.columbia.edu/wp-content/themes/sotp-fou...
- CalRobert 3y ago
  Perhaps you should contact the researchers who are cited at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_temperature#Highest_recorded_wet-bulb_temperatures https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_temperature#Highest_r... because you appear to have independently discovered new global records.
  - somenameforme 3y ago
    Lots of dumb things have happened because people just assume somebody else would have checked [x], where [x] is something painfully trivial. My favorite example is NASA destroying a Martian orbiter [1]. Thousands of people involved in a NASA project carried out over 5 years, at the cost of about half a billion dollars. The mission was a failure because nobody bothered to ensure that the systems were all using the same units of measurement - one system was using metric, the other customary. If something doesn't make sense to you, keeping it to yourself achieves little. At worst you learn something, at best - it's because something was wrong. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter
    - CalRobert 3y ago
      Ok, please submit your new record wbgt findings, for the benefit of all

Not everybody. Lots of people work outdoors for 6+ hour shifts, have transport jobs without AC, and so on. You could also consider primitive cultures. I know the Amazon can get upwards of 40C. I am not as familiar with the humidity on these days, beyond the fact that it's hella humid. And 40C + 70% = 35 wet bulb. If the 35 wet bulb hypothesis was valid, then literally one solitary day of this, regardless of how infrequent, would have killed everybody in the Amazon. There are also many other areas along the equator with high temperature, high humidity, and lots of people without access to AC. Something just doesn't seem right.

CalRobert 3y ago
This would suggest Brazil's record wet bulb temps are in the low 30's https://news.climate.columbia.edu/wp-content/themes/sotp-foundation/dataviz/heat-humidity-map/ https://news.climate.columbia.edu/wp-content/themes/sotp-fou...
CalRobert 3y ago
Perhaps you should contact the researchers who are cited at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_temperature#Highest_recorded_wet-bulb_temperatures https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_temperature#Highest_r... because you appear to have independently discovered new global records.
- somenameforme 3y ago
  Lots of dumb things have happened because people just assume somebody else would have checked [x], where [x] is something painfully trivial. My favorite example is NASA destroying a Martian orbiter [1]. Thousands of people involved in a NASA project carried out over 5 years, at the cost of about half a billion dollars. The mission was a failure because nobody bothered to ensure that the systems were all using the same units of measurement - one system was using metric, the other customary. If something doesn't make sense to you, keeping it to yourself achieves little. At worst you learn something, at best - it's because something was wrong. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter
  - CalRobert 3y ago
    Ok, please submit your new record wbgt findings, for the benefit of all