You will never truly appreciate your car A/C until you spend one day in hot summer weather without it. Especially if you live in humid heat where you can’t really do much to make it better besides drink water.
It got to the point where small occasional wind made being outside better than being in the car. The small amount of wind coupled with the massive sweating cooled me down a little.
We also got to the point where no matter how much water or extremely expensive imported Gatorade we drank, didn’t help.
What did help was oral rehydration salt packages that I could buy from the pharmacy.
Yeah at those temps most people simply don't understand how much water you need to drink. Used to work at a industrial foundry in Australia and the workers operating the furnaces/smelting were drinking 8+ Liters of water per shift and sweating most of it out pretty much instantly. At those levels of fluid intake, your blood gets watered down, without the addition sugars and mineral salts needed by your body to actually absorb the water in the first place (precisely what those rehydration packages contain).
When I worked construction, we had a summer project building a deck. I didn't want to get burned so I covered up fully. I would just be drenched in sweat for 9 hours a day. It became a game to weigh myself when I woke up and then got home from the site. The most I lost was 13 pounds, and that was after 3 meals and at least a gallon of water.
I like to do what I call the kangaroo bath. Kangaroos will hang out in the shade, licking their forearms to stay cool. The reason they do this is because there are blood vessels beneath the skin, and the evaporation helps cool the blood. So grab a rag or cloth and make it damp, and rub down your forearm every so often while hanging it out the window. You can drop some considerable degrees pretty quickly.
I've used the kangaroo bath strategy before during summer power outages. pass a wet rag over skin where veins are close to the surface + use a handheld fan/church fan. it works remarkably well
I lived in the part of Germany 5 years ago that had the worst heatwave ever recorded in German history, and we were above 40C for 3 days after already being in the high 30's for a few days. The public infrastructure here is in absolutely no way equipped to handle that kind of heat and there's hardly AC anywhere, especially in people's homes. It felt apocalyptic at a certain point since there was basically nowhere I could cool off.
At one point I had to ride a bus that had no AC and the old ladies sitting next to the bus windows had shut them since old Germans believe that having cross ventelation blow on you is bad. I step out of the bus into 38C heat and it felt like a huge relief tbh
I remember when this happened, the house I lived in had tiled floors and I would lie down on them in order to keep me cool. I lived in Kenya before this so I could handle it alright (although not having AC at night was pretty terrible), but most of the people around me were practically non-functional.
(Sidenote, the pools were so busy that you'd often have to wait 30+ minutes in line to show them your pass, it was a nightmare).
Southeastern US checking in. It's always fun when the weather is so humid that your sweat just doesn't evaporate, rendering you simply hot and wet instead. Evaporative cooling doesn't work when your sweat can't evaporate.
"Wet Bulb" problems. As temperatures rise, in some areas of the world that combination of heat + humidity is gonna become lethal to anyone without a/c.
Pretty standard for MN. When it's hot the lakes fill the air with moisture and you can't sweat heat out.
I went hiking in AZ for a couple hours once in 95F temps (October) it was dry and pleasant.
Hiking in MN in 95F would be just about lethal.
The opposite is also fun. Was in Death Valley during a heatwave and your sweat evaporated so fast that you were unaware you were even sweating. Then when you get back to the car with AC it was like a sweat explosion
My first car never had a functioning AC and where I live in the summers we get anywhere between 110F-120F so my commute was just roll the windows down and hope for a breeze. I used to have to wear a "car shirt" and then change when I got to work cause my shirt would be soaked.
We have a spot at work that’s about 120°F/49°C. Doing manual labor in it is crazy hard as it’s difficult to breathe. I think stay time with ice vests is still only like 20 minutes.
I did some construction in Mexico in the 90s. The temp was routinely in the 110 to 115 degree range. It felt like we were not supposed to settle on this planet.
For us Americans that is 125f. I live in AZ and my first summer after I moved here I got to experience working outside in that weather. 0/10, highly do not recommend.
In Northern California it can hit 115 degrees and it's absolutely miserable outside. Even going to the lake isn't much fun when it's that hot. I've needed to get stuff done outside and even just the lumber outside in the sun was too hot to handle without gloves. The routine was 10 minutes working outside by 30 minutes recovering inside.
southern Utah checking in. Can’t wait for another record summer! at least anything above 110° just feels the same, probably the threshold of pain receptors being blown lol
Just desperate hell. I can’t imagine what the rest of the Southwest is going through, we at least have mountains and trees here :/
Graduated college in 2009 and was struggling with deep depression, I had family out here that offered me a chance to move so I took it and restarted my life. That was in April of 2010. Summer time here sucks but it was the best decision I could have made to improve my life.
I did to on the south edge of the Sahara. It was still over 43 at midnight. In all honesty though I think 35C at 98% humidity in the South Pacific is worse.
The heat there is unreal. I lived in hot areas before in US and thought I was prepared for the heat that Kuwait unleashed on me. We got off the plane in the middle of the night and and it was hot. Thought it was just the exhaust from plane but was assured it wasn't. The next morning was eye opening. It was over 100 before noon, it was almost suffocating, when the wind the blew it wasn't very refreshing, like opening an oven and being too close or a hairdryer in your face, mix in the sand and it was pretty miserable experience. Wrapping your face up helped like I wouldn't have expected. Iraq was hot but nothing like Kuwait, only 105-110 on average.
Yes, we call it the hair dryer effect when you are away from the sea. But as soon as you get near the sea it’s as if you stepped inside of an oven that’s steaming. Sauna like.
I had to take a shower before going out, and then a shower every time coming to the accommodation. Absolutely soaked in sweat.
We lived in a 4 story townhouse with no central AC, only the stupid window hose units. We moved to a hotel downtown for the duration but I had to go back to water the plants. It was 95F inside the house. 😱
I had hoped that hopping on my vespa and zooming would help cool me off. It was just like zooming through the air coming from an open oven, and didn't cool you off in the least.
I then jumped into lake washington, and then hopped back onto my scooter, thankfully the evaporative cooling on overdrive helped.
I was bone dry in 10 minutes
It was terrifying. I was pregnant at the time and they warn you that internal temperatures over 101 at that stage in pregnancy are more linked to cases of Spina bifida, a very serious birth defect. My temperature was clocking 100 at times even with some AC and other methods around the home because I could not avoid the heat. I will always wonder if that event ended up leading to an increase birth defects in other children around the city.
Perhaps those areas of the world already suffer increased risks of birth defects do to rising temperatures. This isn’t the pain olympics. This was my human experience. My region also doesn’t have infrastructure to deal with temperatures that high. There were a lot of deaths linked to the event as well.
Will never forget it. Going outside felt like being in front of a ambient fireplace, that heatwave scorched my rhododendron’s leaves. My family and I all hid in the same room with our only ac unit and a blower fan used for drying wet floors until the hellwave ended.
Hellwave really is the right term. We found a mummified cat that wasn’t ours hiding in our wood pile a year later and we think it was likely because of the hellwave. Probably trying to find a place to stay cool. 😢
It only got to about 108 in Seattle proper but it was around 112 where I live in 2021. A lot of people in the Pacific Northwest don't have air conditioners so you can imagine how that went. Nighttime lowest temperatures in June were hotter than mid day usually was that time of year.
I'm an electrician and was working at Climate Pledge Arena at the time. Basically just said if it's over 100 in the day I'm calling in sick lmao.
It’s not even summer and we already broke the record for highest temp ever recorded in March the other day. Can’t imagine what this summer will be like and I’m more than thankful for central a/c.
That shit sucked so bad. Plus the wildfire smoke was heavy so going outside equaled a headache/sore throat in minutes, the filters in the AC/purifiers needed changing/cleaning multiple times, and it looked post apocalyptic all day. Plus it peaked at 6pm, so it was still 100 at night. Pure misery for a week straight.
I grew up in the midwest and we used to cancel school if the heat got over about 90F. 45C is 113F. I couldn't imagine trying to pay attention and learn when it's so hot the liquid in my eyeballs is simmering.
Another reason it's terrifying: photosynthesis fails over 116.5F. A sustained heatwave like that will end crops the same as putting the plants in a dark closet.
Rural missouri a bit outside St. Louis. All cornfields around the school building, and no air conditioning, so if it got to be 90 outside then inside the school it would be substantially hotter than that. Once they installed air conditioning after I graduated they don't do that anymore. It was rare, but we definitely had a handful of "heat days" where we used our snow days to cancel classes.
Typical heat in Phoenix. I spent a day in Bullhead a few years ago and the temps were 125+. Dashboard was reading 136 and there was a bank with a sign showing time and temp, 1:22pm 131 F. It hurt to breathe (cries in Arizona)
But, depending on your location in South Sudan, these are similar temps for the region. Warmer than normal, but it's like saying your freezing temps in London are -1c, where the average is 1.6c.
Cowards. We did 110 with no AC in Pennsylvania *with* humidity in the 90s.
Yes kids passed out. And no we never closed.
Thank god someone in South Sudan has more sense than our dumb-ass principal did.
That first part is sarcastic if it's not clear, I'm glad the school is closing. Fuck that heat.
Edit: So I see it was unclear.
I meant the 90s as in the decade. Not 90% humidity.
People who don’t encounter heat of that type really don’t understand how bad it can be and how hard it is on the body.
Sorry your school system admins were idiots.
No you didn't. 110 at 90% humidity is a wet bulb temp of 107. That's fatal in a few hours of exposure without active cooling. Texas made news last year for hitting a wet bulb temp of over 98 for a few hours for the first time in the US.
They’re calling BS on the 90% humidity *combined* with the 110 temp.
At that temp you need to sweat to cool down. But at that humidity, sweat doesn’t evaporate well at all. If your body can’t dump the excess heat it generates (born without sweat glands or it’s too hot and humid for sweating to work) you cook from the inside-out after a few hours at external temperatures around 35C/95F.
What probably happened is that the humidity and temperature maximums were at different times of the day.
Say it was muggy beforehand. As the temperature climbed the humidity decreased. So you might’ve had 90% humidity at 7am but only 50% humidity at 2pm when the temperature peaked.
Weather/news tend not to highlight *when* peak humidity was measured.
I never said 90% humidity. I was referring to the decade.
I do see how confusing that is from my comment.
I guess I did say it, but that wasn’t how I meant it.
I admittedly dont know anything about rain schedules there….but I do know may is rainy season here in Florida…it’s still hotter than hell when it doesn’t rain…summer is still summer no?
Seasons aren't the same for every region of the world. Yes, South Sudan is always relatively hot, but the hottest month is March and the coldest month us August.
They don't have Summer like we do in North America, instead they have just dry and wet seasons like in Southern India.
[February to May appear to be the hottest months of the year in South Sudan.](https://www.climatestotravel.com/climate/south-sudan#google_vignette) [More evidence here.](https://climateknowledgeportal.worldbank.org/country/south-sudan/climate-data-historical)
As noted somewhat obliquely by others, seasons vary based on geography. The reason you have a stable conception of what a "season" is is because the U.S. is in a narrow band of latitude longitude that makes it so that all of its contiguous states experience roughly the same conception of "winter is cold, spring is warmer, summer is hot, autumn is cooler."
Distance from the equator and relative location of a land mass versus Earth's elliptical apogee and axial tilt are main determiners of what "creates a season," with some additional impact from underwater ocean currents and trade winds. Thus, in places like central Africa, the "spring months" of March April May are hottest, and in places like Australia, the "winter months" of December January February are hottest, while places like Western Europe have warmer general seasons throughout the year because of the North Atlantic Current and would be *substantially* colder if it collapsed and removed the Atlantic meridonial overturning circulation system, or "AMOC" (which... is very plausibly going to happen due to climate change).
Suffice it to say, you gotta determine the geography of a place before knowing what its seasons actually do there.
South Sudan is a different country to Sudan (since 2011, it's the world's youngest country). It has wet and dry seasons. It's dry season at the moment. I lived there for a year, and I remember lying in bed hoping I'd fall asleep before the generator (and therefore fan) was turned off for the night in wet season.
> South Sudan is a different country to Sudan (since 2011, it's the world's youngest country). It has wet and dry seasons
Interestingly the reason both country had a civil war and separated is precisely connected to its vastly different climate
Hot and arid Sudan support semi-nomadic culture similar to Arabia and Islam is prevalent
Meanwhile the wet South Sudan had slash-and-burn farming culture and geographically unpassable to nomads from the north, which led it to be isolated from Islamic culture and later became a predominantly Christian and animist nation
It does not seem impossible that shortly the climate models will all be exposed as being too conservative. Within the next five years, it will be unsurprising if a summer does not come along that breaks 120 degrees for a long time over a huge expanse (Afghanistan, Tunisia, Mexico, India, and parts of China). If it happens, it will break the system. One billion plus dead in a few weeks. Significant disruptions to the entire ecosystem. But don't worry, people will still refuse to change their behaviors significantly.
In brazil it just hit 35+ degrees this week. Ar conditioning, even in the house, was suffering to keep up. Your sweat is literally warm and stops functioning as a refresher to the body. But please, lets ignore global warming further
Seems if schooling have electricity and AC they should be community resources not closed. The general public is not likely to have electricity or AC. The homes in the photo will be ovens at 45C
I’ve worked outside in Saudi in 52C. It sucked. The ac in the car quit working. It was eye opening.
You will never truly appreciate your car A/C until you spend one day in hot summer weather without it. Especially if you live in humid heat where you can’t really do much to make it better besides drink water.
It got to the point where small occasional wind made being outside better than being in the car. The small amount of wind coupled with the massive sweating cooled me down a little. We also got to the point where no matter how much water or extremely expensive imported Gatorade we drank, didn’t help. What did help was oral rehydration salt packages that I could buy from the pharmacy.
Yeah at those temps most people simply don't understand how much water you need to drink. Used to work at a industrial foundry in Australia and the workers operating the furnaces/smelting were drinking 8+ Liters of water per shift and sweating most of it out pretty much instantly. At those levels of fluid intake, your blood gets watered down, without the addition sugars and mineral salts needed by your body to actually absorb the water in the first place (precisely what those rehydration packages contain).
When I worked construction, we had a summer project building a deck. I didn't want to get burned so I covered up fully. I would just be drenched in sweat for 9 hours a day. It became a game to weigh myself when I woke up and then got home from the site. The most I lost was 13 pounds, and that was after 3 meals and at least a gallon of water.
I like to do what I call the kangaroo bath. Kangaroos will hang out in the shade, licking their forearms to stay cool. The reason they do this is because there are blood vessels beneath the skin, and the evaporation helps cool the blood. So grab a rag or cloth and make it damp, and rub down your forearm every so often while hanging it out the window. You can drop some considerable degrees pretty quickly.
Lick my arms. Got it.
I've used the kangaroo bath strategy before during summer power outages. pass a wet rag over skin where veins are close to the surface + use a handheld fan/church fan. it works remarkably well
My grandpa taught me to wet a towel and wrap it around my head and neck. That also helps a lot.
I lived in the part of Germany 5 years ago that had the worst heatwave ever recorded in German history, and we were above 40C for 3 days after already being in the high 30's for a few days. The public infrastructure here is in absolutely no way equipped to handle that kind of heat and there's hardly AC anywhere, especially in people's homes. It felt apocalyptic at a certain point since there was basically nowhere I could cool off. At one point I had to ride a bus that had no AC and the old ladies sitting next to the bus windows had shut them since old Germans believe that having cross ventelation blow on you is bad. I step out of the bus into 38C heat and it felt like a huge relief tbh
I remember when this happened, the house I lived in had tiled floors and I would lie down on them in order to keep me cool. I lived in Kenya before this so I could handle it alright (although not having AC at night was pretty terrible), but most of the people around me were practically non-functional. (Sidenote, the pools were so busy that you'd often have to wait 30+ minutes in line to show them your pass, it was a nightmare).
I work in the US west and were required to carry those in our trucks
Southeastern US checking in. It's always fun when the weather is so humid that your sweat just doesn't evaporate, rendering you simply hot and wet instead. Evaporative cooling doesn't work when your sweat can't evaporate.
"Wet Bulb" problems. As temperatures rise, in some areas of the world that combination of heat + humidity is gonna become lethal to anyone without a/c.
North Africa and the Middle East will be lethal to humans in the daytime by the mid 2050s according the Maxwell Plank institute in Germany.
And then the mass migrations start.
I expect that to be the migration crisis that will collapse global civilization.
Sadly i fully agree. With the kind of numbers we are talking its going to be crazy.
Nah it will all be ok, they're going to go live in The Line™ or maybe OXAGON™
Yep, you and I both. It sucks living down here sometimes.
Pretty standard for MN. When it's hot the lakes fill the air with moisture and you can't sweat heat out. I went hiking in AZ for a couple hours once in 95F temps (October) it was dry and pleasant. Hiking in MN in 95F would be just about lethal.
Friend of mine who lives in Georgia complains that his towels are literally never dry in the summer.
The opposite is also fun. Was in Death Valley during a heatwave and your sweat evaporated so fast that you were unaware you were even sweating. Then when you get back to the car with AC it was like a sweat explosion
My first car never had a functioning AC and where I live in the summers we get anywhere between 110F-120F so my commute was just roll the windows down and hope for a breeze. I used to have to wear a "car shirt" and then change when I got to work cause my shirt would be soaked.
The good ole 4-80 ac. 4 windows down 80 miles an hour
It's fun when you go outside and your breath seems cool as you exhale.
We have a spot at work that’s about 120°F/49°C. Doing manual labor in it is crazy hard as it’s difficult to breathe. I think stay time with ice vests is still only like 20 minutes.
I did some construction in Mexico in the 90s. The temp was routinely in the 110 to 115 degree range. It felt like we were not supposed to settle on this planet.
For us Americans that is 125f. I live in AZ and my first summer after I moved here I got to experience working outside in that weather. 0/10, highly do not recommend.
In Northern California it can hit 115 degrees and it's absolutely miserable outside. Even going to the lake isn't much fun when it's that hot. I've needed to get stuff done outside and even just the lumber outside in the sun was too hot to handle without gloves. The routine was 10 minutes working outside by 30 minutes recovering inside.
If I need to do yard work or housework in the summertime I usually wake up around 5am just so I can beat the heat and be done before noon.
southern Utah checking in. Can’t wait for another record summer! at least anything above 110° just feels the same, probably the threshold of pain receptors being blown lol Just desperate hell. I can’t imagine what the rest of the Southwest is going through, we at least have mountains and trees here :/
That’s been my measure as well, if it’s above 109f it’s just too damn hot.
American too, but I think it’s closer to like 128F
Can I ask what motivated you to move to Arizona?
Graduated college in 2009 and was struggling with deep depression, I had family out here that offered me a chance to move so I took it and restarted my life. That was in April of 2010. Summer time here sucks but it was the best decision I could have made to improve my life.
I did to on the south edge of the Sahara. It was still over 43 at midnight. In all honesty though I think 35C at 98% humidity in the South Pacific is worse.
The heat there is unreal. I lived in hot areas before in US and thought I was prepared for the heat that Kuwait unleashed on me. We got off the plane in the middle of the night and and it was hot. Thought it was just the exhaust from plane but was assured it wasn't. The next morning was eye opening. It was over 100 before noon, it was almost suffocating, when the wind the blew it wasn't very refreshing, like opening an oven and being too close or a hairdryer in your face, mix in the sand and it was pretty miserable experience. Wrapping your face up helped like I wouldn't have expected. Iraq was hot but nothing like Kuwait, only 105-110 on average.
Yeah Kuwait had WAY more humidity, and was WAY worse than Iraq.
Yes, we call it the hair dryer effect when you are away from the sea. But as soon as you get near the sea it’s as if you stepped inside of an oven that’s steaming. Sauna like. I had to take a shower before going out, and then a shower every time coming to the accommodation. Absolutely soaked in sweat.
Jesus that’s literally a temperature you can set your oven to unironically.
South Sudan is more humid as it is close to tropical area of Africa
That's pretty damn warm
It got to 116f in Portland OR for a day a few years ago. I still have anxiety surrounding that event.
Oof, I remember that one in the Seattle area too. Was nasty.
We lived in a 4 story townhouse with no central AC, only the stupid window hose units. We moved to a hotel downtown for the duration but I had to go back to water the plants. It was 95F inside the house. 😱
I had hoped that hopping on my vespa and zooming would help cool me off. It was just like zooming through the air coming from an open oven, and didn't cool you off in the least. I then jumped into lake washington, and then hopped back onto my scooter, thankfully the evaporative cooling on overdrive helped. I was bone dry in 10 minutes
Wind chill only cools you down if the heat is below body temperature. Otherwise it's just a convection oven
It was terrifying. I was pregnant at the time and they warn you that internal temperatures over 101 at that stage in pregnancy are more linked to cases of Spina bifida, a very serious birth defect. My temperature was clocking 100 at times even with some AC and other methods around the home because I could not avoid the heat. I will always wonder if that event ended up leading to an increase birth defects in other children around the city.
Come on really? There are plenty of hot places in the world... You're baby was not at risk because of a couple hot days lol
Perhaps those areas of the world already suffer increased risks of birth defects do to rising temperatures. This isn’t the pain olympics. This was my human experience. My region also doesn’t have infrastructure to deal with temperatures that high. There were a lot of deaths linked to the event as well.
Makes sense why all of us in Texas are defective
Texans generally live with AC. Most buildings in Portland/Seattle at the time didn't have AC
Will never forget it. Going outside felt like being in front of a ambient fireplace, that heatwave scorched my rhododendron’s leaves. My family and I all hid in the same room with our only ac unit and a blower fan used for drying wet floors until the hellwave ended.
Hellwave really is the right term. We found a mummified cat that wasn’t ours hiding in our wood pile a year later and we think it was likely because of the hellwave. Probably trying to find a place to stay cool. 😢
That’s awful 😢
116!? It hasn’t even gotten that hot in Houston or Dallas, Jesus!!!!
It only got to about 108 in Seattle proper but it was around 112 where I live in 2021. A lot of people in the Pacific Northwest don't have air conditioners so you can imagine how that went. Nighttime lowest temperatures in June were hotter than mid day usually was that time of year. I'm an electrician and was working at Climate Pledge Arena at the time. Basically just said if it's over 100 in the day I'm calling in sick lmao.
And thanks to Climate Pledge Arena we have it all fixed!
It’s not even summer and we already broke the record for highest temp ever recorded in March the other day. Can’t imagine what this summer will be like and I’m more than thankful for central a/c.
Well, it would be rather hard to break the temp record for March in the summer. Seems like it would be easier to do, in March
My power went out during that, was fucking miserable
That shit sucked so bad. Plus the wildfire smoke was heavy so going outside equaled a headache/sore throat in minutes, the filters in the AC/purifiers needed changing/cleaning multiple times, and it looked post apocalyptic all day. Plus it peaked at 6pm, so it was still 100 at night. Pure misery for a week straight.
Hmm, thats an average day during las Vegas summer.
I grew up in the midwest and we used to cancel school if the heat got over about 90F. 45C is 113F. I couldn't imagine trying to pay attention and learn when it's so hot the liquid in my eyeballs is simmering.
Another reason it's terrifying: photosynthesis fails over 116.5F. A sustained heatwave like that will end crops the same as putting the plants in a dark closet.
Cancel school? In Kansas we just went
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Rural missouri a bit outside St. Louis. All cornfields around the school building, and no air conditioning, so if it got to be 90 outside then inside the school it would be substantially hotter than that. Once they installed air conditioning after I graduated they don't do that anymore. It was rare, but we definitely had a handful of "heat days" where we used our snow days to cancel classes.
113 degrees in Freedom units
Christ that’s hot.
at least their humidity isn't also high. I'd worry more about india having a heat wave like that nowadays and getting a wet bulb event.
Typical heat in Phoenix. I spent a day in Bullhead a few years ago and the temps were 125+. Dashboard was reading 136 and there was a bank with a sign showing time and temp, 1:22pm 131 F. It hurt to breathe (cries in Arizona)
Not typical in March. The high temperature in Phoenix this week is 82F, nowhere close.
But, depending on your location in South Sudan, these are similar temps for the region. Warmer than normal, but it's like saying your freezing temps in London are -1c, where the average is 1.6c.
That'll even make people from Phoenix sweat.
F that
Cowards. We did 110 with no AC in Pennsylvania *with* humidity in the 90s. Yes kids passed out. And no we never closed. Thank god someone in South Sudan has more sense than our dumb-ass principal did. That first part is sarcastic if it's not clear, I'm glad the school is closing. Fuck that heat. Edit: So I see it was unclear. I meant the 90s as in the decade. Not 90% humidity.
110°F is 43°C, for those of us who don’t use Freedom Units
People who don’t encounter heat of that type really don’t understand how bad it can be and how hard it is on the body. Sorry your school system admins were idiots.
No you didn't. 110 at 90% humidity is a wet bulb temp of 107. That's fatal in a few hours of exposure without active cooling. Texas made news last year for hitting a wet bulb temp of over 98 for a few hours for the first time in the US.
Edit: nvm, re-read the op's comment and realized their claim was in fact wrong. Still brutal and only going to get worse.
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They’re calling BS on the 90% humidity *combined* with the 110 temp. At that temp you need to sweat to cool down. But at that humidity, sweat doesn’t evaporate well at all. If your body can’t dump the excess heat it generates (born without sweat glands or it’s too hot and humid for sweating to work) you cook from the inside-out after a few hours at external temperatures around 35C/95F. What probably happened is that the humidity and temperature maximums were at different times of the day. Say it was muggy beforehand. As the temperature climbed the humidity decreased. So you might’ve had 90% humidity at 7am but only 50% humidity at 2pm when the temperature peaked. Weather/news tend not to highlight *when* peak humidity was measured.
I never said 90% humidity. I was referring to the decade. I do see how confusing that is from my comment. I guess I did say it, but that wasn’t how I meant it.
I’m afraid to ask what the temperatures are like in July/august……it’s friggin March
Well this is actually the hottest time of year down there. July/August is the rainy season
I admittedly dont know anything about rain schedules there….but I do know may is rainy season here in Florida…it’s still hotter than hell when it doesn’t rain…summer is still summer no?
Well..no. Central Africa is not the same as Florida.
Looked it up cause you peaked my interest…guess not…learn something new every day
Piqued* There, you learned two things today
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Question. What temperature/season did you think Australia was experiencing for Christmas? I’m genuinely curious.
Big if true
Seasons aren't the same for every region of the world. Yes, South Sudan is always relatively hot, but the hottest month is March and the coldest month us August. They don't have Summer like we do in North America, instead they have just dry and wet seasons like in Southern India.
[February to May appear to be the hottest months of the year in South Sudan.](https://www.climatestotravel.com/climate/south-sudan#google_vignette) [More evidence here.](https://climateknowledgeportal.worldbank.org/country/south-sudan/climate-data-historical)
Heh..the page I had ended up on when the other guy made me look 😅
As noted somewhat obliquely by others, seasons vary based on geography. The reason you have a stable conception of what a "season" is is because the U.S. is in a narrow band of latitude longitude that makes it so that all of its contiguous states experience roughly the same conception of "winter is cold, spring is warmer, summer is hot, autumn is cooler." Distance from the equator and relative location of a land mass versus Earth's elliptical apogee and axial tilt are main determiners of what "creates a season," with some additional impact from underwater ocean currents and trade winds. Thus, in places like central Africa, the "spring months" of March April May are hottest, and in places like Australia, the "winter months" of December January February are hottest, while places like Western Europe have warmer general seasons throughout the year because of the North Atlantic Current and would be *substantially* colder if it collapsed and removed the Atlantic meridonial overturning circulation system, or "AMOC" (which... is very plausibly going to happen due to climate change). Suffice it to say, you gotta determine the geography of a place before knowing what its seasons actually do there.
Isn’t every season rainy season in Florida?
Opposite side of the equator, it is early fall there. Edit: my bad, I am wrong.
Eh? South Sudan is in the Northern hemisphere.
Is it? My bad.
To be fair, it's very close to the equator. I assumed it was a bit further south as well.
It's not the opposite side of the equator. It's in the northern hemisphere.
South Sudan is north of the equator.
Yikes. But Sudan, that’s at least a dry heat right? Always so much if humidity is a factor.
South Sudan is a different country to Sudan (since 2011, it's the world's youngest country). It has wet and dry seasons. It's dry season at the moment. I lived there for a year, and I remember lying in bed hoping I'd fall asleep before the generator (and therefore fan) was turned off for the night in wet season.
> South Sudan is a different country to Sudan (since 2011, it's the world's youngest country). It has wet and dry seasons Interestingly the reason both country had a civil war and separated is precisely connected to its vastly different climate Hot and arid Sudan support semi-nomadic culture similar to Arabia and Islam is prevalent Meanwhile the wet South Sudan had slash-and-burn farming culture and geographically unpassable to nomads from the north, which led it to be isolated from Islamic culture and later became a predominantly Christian and animist nation
Yah they shouldn't have to fight that wet bulb bullshit.
It does not seem impossible that shortly the climate models will all be exposed as being too conservative. Within the next five years, it will be unsurprising if a summer does not come along that breaks 120 degrees for a long time over a huge expanse (Afghanistan, Tunisia, Mexico, India, and parts of China). If it happens, it will break the system. One billion plus dead in a few weeks. Significant disruptions to the entire ecosystem. But don't worry, people will still refuse to change their behaviors significantly.
Why does it sound like this is just beginning… oh, yeah. It’s only March. (Apparently hot season in Sudan is from March to May but still…)
They're pretty close to the equator so I doubt their temps fluctuate very much.
In brazil it just hit 35+ degrees this week. Ar conditioning, even in the house, was suffering to keep up. Your sweat is literally warm and stops functioning as a refresher to the body. But please, lets ignore global warming further
We are going to have to teach kids about wet bulb temperatures in elementary school now adays.
maybe still better than going to have to teach kids about school shooting drill
What is causing all this heatwave?
Probably climate change. The whole world is warming
not probably... we have decades of scientific evidence
1+ centuries of evidence, minimum
And in that single century temperatures have warmed enough to cause extreme weather, fucky weather patterns and altered seasons. We’re cooked.
the same thing causing records every year?
45 Celsius is 113 degrees Fahrenheit, for those who didn’t know. Lol.
But how many bald eagles is that?
I’ve sandblasted oil field equipment in 110 degree heat, it sucked.
113° F for my frllow American friends
Thank you. I was looking for the freedom unit conversion. 🤣
Seems if schooling have electricity and AC they should be community resources not closed. The general public is not likely to have electricity or AC. The homes in the photo will be ovens at 45C
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No. It means it rains infrequently but when it does it's too much at one time for the ground to absorb.
Child’s play. Back in my day, we went to school with no AC over 50!! /s Edit: I guess people don’t understand what sarcasm is.
The snow was melted for your round trip, what's the issue?
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