Re:The emergence of heat and humidity too severe for human t...
by ksaj on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @11:50PM
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
I only know from owning a swamp cooler.