So tomorrow, the NWS forecasts wet bulb temperatures in parts of the US are so high, that people will die if they aren't in air-conditioning. You can't really do anything in wet bulb temps above 90F, and you die in wet bulb temps above 95F.
And it's only June!
Source: https://digital.mdl.nws.noaa.gov/
(Edited to add source)
@pearlbear According to Wikipedia:
A wet-bulb temperature of 32 °C (90 °F), equivalent to a heat index of 55 °C (130 °F).
WELL that sure is terrifying, isn't it?
"35 celcius? That's hot, but I've been in that kind of weather before, surely it's not so bad..."
*Wikipedias "heat index"*
*Wikipedias "wet bulb thermometer"*
Oh holy SHIT!
Correct. "Wind chill" is just the wind (cooler than body temp) blowing away the little layer of near-body-temp air surrounding your body, so you lose heat faster. If the air around you is at or above body temp, wind has no cooling effect (and can actually accelerate overheating — ice cream melts faster in a breeze). And wet t-shirt depends on evaporation. Wet bulb 95° means 95° AND 100% humidity (or equivalent combo), so it's already adjusted for evaporative cooling.
@tunguska @pearlbear thought it might be something like that. Appreciate the thorough explanation
Will have to stick with the original use for wet tshirts haha
I've heard of ppl w/ dysautonomia using alcohol sprays for temperature regulation under high heat conditions. Not much of a solution for this situation, but if someone were desperate... Of course the alcohol would get used up pretty quickly.
@pearlbear basically at wet bulb temp 100°F sweat won't cool a person down and people get more or less "baked" to death.
Not to mention #WetBulbTemperature is based off temperature and relative humidity, so it's a wet heat, not a dry heat, where sweating would allow for cooling...
FFS
I have the tree guy coming out tomorrow, obv. he can't work during this
I know, hardly the biggest issue, but I'm trying not to panic here
I am ONE MILE from Lake Pontchartrain, it just shouldn't be this way
@pearlbear time to re-read the first chapter of "Ministry for the Future" by Kim Stanley Robinson. Or not, since it's completely and utterly horrific.
Basically wet-bulb 35C for 2-3 days in India combined with power outage kills 20M people. Tell yourself its fiction if you must.
I dont know how to say this.
This is screaming. This is "ALIENS LAND" important.
This is ALARMS louder than thunder.
This is FDR at the podium before Congress, announcing that Japan had sunk a third of the US fleet and America is at war.
This is a hard punch in the face
If you dont have access to cooling in the US south, chances are, you will die.
Not "feel like youre dying"
Die. As in cooked to death.
Last year 619 CANADIANS died of #CLIMATE heat in a temperate rainforest.
And India, and china, and russia, and cuba, and chile, all us humans, no matter any system we live in, must demand then force, the building of renewables, 100% o9f energy needs.
100% from wind and solar.
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