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Where I live, the current daily temperature is between 33 in the morning and hits forty something mid day, so I have very recent experience with those 5 degrees

Where I live, the current daily temperature is between 33 in the morning and hits forty something mid day, so I have very recent experience with those 5 degrees, and I completely disagree with your assessment. Difference between 10 and 30 degrees C feels, way, way bigger than 37 to 42. One goes from straight up cold to quite hot, while the other just goes from very hot to even more very hot.

close04 1y ago
I bet you’re casually discounting the fact that you spend most of that time with 40+C temps in an air conditioned space. At 42 degrees your body can’t cool down and this causes a lot of deaths or even the “casual” fainting described in the article due to hyperthermia. This goes way beyond your subjective feeling.
- wodenokoto 1y ago
  You right in the sense that I rarely spend more than 10 minutes in either 37 nor 42 degrees at a time. I thought this thread was discussing the subjective feelings of temperature.
  - close04 1y ago
    I think the whole thread is to show the Celsius scale in particular but temperature degrees have different impacts in different places in general, but especially in the range supporting human life. One degree can mean nothing or be the difference between being alive or dead, depending on where that degree is on the scale and maybe other compounding factors like humidity. Talking about relative temperature differences without anchoring to an absolute reference is meaningless. Using percentages is even worse.
Peteragain 1y ago
I'm with you: very hot to more very hot. I think the real issue in the fainting story is that he/she had to take their coat off. 42 is just not life threatening if one knows when to take one's coat off (and drink water).
- Retric 1y ago
  42C is eventually life threatening naked if the humidity is high enough, especially if you’re in the sun. It just takes a long time for your body temperature to increase, thus you have a while to find a cooler spot.

close04 1y ago

I bet you’re casually discounting the fact that you spend most of that time with 40+C temps in an air conditioned space. At 42 degrees your body can’t cool down and this causes a lot of deaths or even the “casual” fainting described in the article due to hyperthermia. This goes way beyond your subjective feeling.

wodenokoto 1y ago
You right in the sense that I rarely spend more than 10 minutes in either 37 nor 42 degrees at a time. I thought this thread was discussing the subjective feelings of temperature.
- close04 1y ago
  I think the whole thread is to show the Celsius scale in particular but temperature degrees have different impacts in different places in general, but especially in the range supporting human life. One degree can mean nothing or be the difference between being alive or dead, depending on where that degree is on the scale and maybe other compounding factors like humidity. Talking about relative temperature differences without anchoring to an absolute reference is meaningless. Using percentages is even worse.

Peteragain 1y ago

I'm with you: very hot to more very hot. I think the real issue in the fainting story is that he/she had to take their coat off. 42 is just not life threatening if one knows when to take one's coat off (and drink water).

Retric 1y ago
42C is eventually life threatening naked if the humidity is high enough, especially if you’re in the sun. It just takes a long time for your body temperature to increase, thus you have a while to find a cooler spot.