• village604@adultswim.fan
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    8 hours ago

    Yeah, no. 95F is a normal summer temperature here. I’ve done farm work for hours in triple digit temps in direct sunlight without getting heat stroke.

    It’s something you have to be acclimated to, though, and you have to know to frequently drink water.

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      6 hours ago

      A) Drinking water is external cooling, just inefficient.

      B) No, your anecdote doesn’t change reality. though the 35c is a good reference point humidity does matter. If you cannot sweat you cannot cool down. Period. End of story.

      At 35c you MUST be able to sweat or cool down in some other way, or you will die. just the close you are to 100% relative humidity at that temp, the less you will be able to sweat. So you will have one less method of cooling down.

      Many people have no problem living in 35-40c temps with low humidity. Maybe up to 45c with 0% relative humidity.

      There are not humans that have survived 35c at 100% humidity for more than 2 hours. They don’t exist on this planet. They physically can’t.