The emergence of heat and humidity too severe for human tolerance (2020)

Re:The emergence of heat and humidity too severe for human t... by j1elo on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @09:52AM (#28141950)

For people reading "web bulb" here and not having the least idea of what it is, first of all it's "wet bulb", and this article explained it very clearly to me:

https://www.iflscience.com/environment/why-is-everybody-talk...

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Re:The emergence of heat and humidity too severe for human t... by tootie on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @10:25AM (#28142370)

Seems like Wet Bulb is a more precise version of what some weather reporters call "Heat Index". Meant to measure how hot it actually feels on the skin. Is there any sort of formula mapping heat + humidity to wet bulb?

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Re:The emergence of heat and humidity too severe for human t... by robotguy on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @10:38AM (#28142536)

https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/wet-bulb

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Re:The emergence of heat and humidity too severe for human t... by shoemakersteve on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @11:09AM (#28142935)

In Canada we call it "humidex" because we're cool like that.

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