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Fans do you no good when the humidity is above a certain point. You’re also losing a lot of water to evaporation from sweating if it is doing anything at all.
by lazide 3mo ago
Fans do you no good when the humidity is above a certain point.
You’re also losing a lot of water to evaporation from sweating if it is doing anything at all.
There is a reason why Singapore switched to AC pretty much everywhere except old hawker centers, and why it’s not alone.
- ndsipa_pomu 3mo ago> Fans do you no good when the humidity is above a certain point. That would be related to the wet-bulb temperature. If the wet-bulb temperature is more than about 30°C, then I'd consider the area to be uninhabitable. (A wet bulb temperature of 35°C is considered lethal). Fans are surprisingly effective as most people are stationary and thus produce almost a bubble of high humidity around themselves. Fans disperse that localised high humidity and allow people to effectively reduce their temperature through sweating/evaporation.
- lazide 3mo ago[https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2020/05/08/interactive-map-daily-maximum-wet-bulb-temperature/ https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2020/05/08/interactive-map...] And getting worse.