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Re:The emergence of heat and humidity too severe for human t... by rudedogg on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @10:52PM (#28137381)
Little pedantic, but you meant "Wet-bulb" temperature (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_temperature#Temperatu...).

I only know from owning a swamp cooler.

Re:The emergence of heat and humidity too severe for human t... by ksaj on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @11:50PM (#28137788)
It is worth correcting, because I think most people haven't heard of wet-bulb, just as the methods and formulas that give us humidex "feels-like" temperatures aren't common knowledge.

A lot of ways we measure and describe the human experience of humidity and temperature are not standardized from location to location, so the non-local methods and terminology can be arcane for anyone who isn't a meteorologist.

Re:The emergence of heat and humidity too severe for human t... by midnightGhost on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @11:57PM (#28137842)
I never heard of wet-bulb temp until carrot weather included it in a recent update.
Re:The emergence of heat and humidity too severe for human t... by boplicity on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @11:06AM (#28142901)
Yes, that's right. I did mean wet-bulb. Not sure why my brain didn't register this mistake when I wrote it.
Re:The emergence of heat and humidity too severe for human t... by snovv_crash on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @01:56AM (#28138536)
Isn't it basically the same as the dew point temperature? I believe a lot more people are familiar with that.
Re:The emergence of heat and humidity too severe for human t... by formerly_proven on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @09:53AM (#28141970)
No, dew point is the temperature of an object on which air will start to condensate (because cooling the given air to the dew point lets relative humidity rise above 100 %, i.e. condensation). Wet-bulb temperature is the lowest temperature an object can reach through evaporative cooling (i.e. humans).

The two are the same only if relative humidity is 100 %: 100 % relative humidity means that if the air cools at all, it will condensate; so the air temperature is the dew point. 100 % relative humidity also means that water cannot evaporate, as the air is already saturated with water, so the wet bulb temperature is also the same as the air temperature.

Re:The emergence of heat and humidity too severe for human t... by snovv_crash on Friday August 13, 2021 @01:48AM (#28165847)
But that's the same isn't it, because condensation is a reversible process, as evaporation. At some point they will balance, and this is the dew point.
Re:The emergence of heat and humidity too severe for human t... by kubanczyk on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @04:53AM (#28139644)
Just looking at the graphs, dew point temperature tends to be a bit lower than the wet bulb temperature (when humidity is equal).