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Your intuition about temperature is focused on the dry-bulb temperature that a simple probe gives you.
A wet-bulb is literally a probe with a wet cloth or tissue around it.
As the humidity in the air increases the wet-bulb temperature approaches the dry bulb temperature.
This is absolutely “warming”. The latent heat of the air increases. The sensible heat remains the same.
Your intuition about temperature is focused on the dry-bulb temperature that a simple probe gives you.
A wet-bulb is literally a probe with a wet cloth or tissue around it.
As the humidity in the air increases the wet-bulb temperature approaches the dry bulb temperature.
This is absolutely “warming”. The latent heat of the air increases. The sensible heat remains the same.