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minus-square@SheeEttinlink3•2 years agoYeah but it’s a dry heat. Which means you can still cool off through sweat evaporation. Now when humidity is high, there’s already so much water in the air that that doesn’t happen. Your sweat doesn’t evaporate, so you don’t cool down at all. That’s deadly.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•2 years agoExcept you can’t. The air is hot, as hot as a blow dryer. Your only reprieve is in air conditioning inside. And I live in a humid state, I can cool down with a fan and sweat.
Yeah but it’s a dry heat.
Which means you can still cool off through sweat evaporation. Now when humidity is high, there’s already so much water in the air that that doesn’t happen. Your sweat doesn’t evaporate, so you don’t cool down at all. That’s deadly.
Except you can’t. The air is hot, as hot as a blow dryer. Your only reprieve is in air conditioning inside.
And I live in a humid state, I can cool down with a fan and sweat.