But percentages in the stock market seem to be more important to efficiently combat climate change.

  • @quinkin
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    Heat index or apparent temperature is not the same as actual temperature. Would still suck but at least you aren’t being pasteurized.

  • @[email protected]
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    probably faulty sensor, there’s no way the temp is 15 degrees higher than the current highest temperature ever measured

  • @who8mydamnoreos
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    151 year ago

    It would be amazing if some how the heat would cut off access to the persian gulf, it would definitely push the world to think of alternative energy

      • @who8mydamnoreos
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        21 year ago

        Choking off that straight would absolutely grind to a halt the economic engines of every asian major power faster than they could find a solution to exporting the hundreds of millions barrels a day though that hostile environment.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      The real temperature are 58ºC, but relevant is the index, that is, how we percive the temperature. With a dry air you can support more than 70º (eg in a Sauna), but with high air humidity, which evite the evaporation cooling by your sweat, even 50ºC result lethal in a short time, rising corporal temperature over 43ºC. Because of this, it’s the index which is the relevant value, not the one shown by the thermometer.

      • @Sterile_Technique
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        With a dry air you can support more than 70º (eg in a Sauna), but with high air humidity, which evite the evaporation cooling by your sweat

        You got that flipped.

        With dry air, your sweat can evaporate. Evaporation consumes energy, and thus has a cooling effect, making high temperatures more bearable/survivable at low humidity.

        With humid air (eg in a sauna) your sweat cannot evaporate because the air is already saturated. This deprives you of the cooling effect, making humid conditions feel much hotter; and making it lethal much faster and at lower temps.

          • @Sterile_Technique
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            21 year ago

            Oh, fair enough. I had no clue that there was even such a thing as a steamless sauna.

        • @[email protected]
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          61 year ago

          Yep.

          100f+ degree weather with zero humidity? Sweat evaporates so quickly that with a fan on you or a breeze you can actually feel briefly chilled at times.

      • Hyperreality
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        I know. There’s also this:

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_temperature

        But mentioning the actual temperature is less misleading.

        With a dry air you can support more than 70º (eg in a Sauna), but with high air humidity, which evite the evaporation cooling by your sweat, even 50ºC result lethal in a short time,

        Over 90C dry, 50C wet, 10-15 minutes. Longer/hotter if you take dips in cold water to cool down or if you’re Finnish. They sometimes go over 100C, they’re used to it.

      • @Oaksey
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        21 year ago

        Is hot but Washington Post article says the temperature in recent weeks has got as high as 51C and all time max is 54C. Where are you getting 58C from?

  • Overzeetop
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    111 year ago

    Dew points of 90-95F? JFC that’s nuts.

  • @[email protected]
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    71 year ago

    The title is a little clickbait-y: Heat Index is different from Temperature and not everyone knows that.
    While it’s still bad, it sensationalizes the matter and this can be used against you from people that have a different opinion on the subject.

  • @FReddit
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    You are right. That was pretty bad.