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100 F is hardly a temperature that could kill you, unless you completely neglect hydration. But not drinking will kill you happily at lower temperatures. Also,
by lrasinen 3y ago
100 F is hardly a temperature that could kill you, unless you completely neglect hydration. But not drinking will kill you happily at lower temperatures.
Also, living in a climate where winter temperatures often hover around the freezing point, you develop a healthy interest in it.
As an example: If it's been a few days below 0 C, and then it warms to 3 C, the snow on the sidewalks will have compressed to ice whose top layer will now melt and create absolutely lethal walking conditions.
Or if it freezes after having sleet conditions (0-4 C maybe), you get this craggy ice that's not as slippery but is uneven and thus a hazard in its own way. Also very miserable for bicycles.
Anders Celsius was a Swede. He knew.
- cmiller1 3y ago100 F will absolutely kill you at 100% humidity.
- lrasinen 3y agoGranted. But such conditions are rare and localized. When looking for extreme dew point values, I found this statement: "The highest dew point ever recorded was 35 °C, or 95 °F. This occurred on 8th July, 2003, in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. This happened because the air temperature was 42 °C, or 108 °F, and the relative humidity was 68.5 %." So tropical latitudes might care about temperature / dew point near those numbers, Northern Europe and friends spend their time worrying about freezing.