Wet bulb events. Not as sexy as they sound. (open.substack.com)

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If you've never heard of wet bulb events, get ready for a new level of climate anxiety. When the air kills you!

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[-] pkulak@beehaw.org 1 points 11 months ago

our bodies transfer heat from our body to water on the surface of our skin, water that then evaporates, resulting in heat loss from our body

Not a great explanation. Sweat is obviously body temperature, so heat doesn’t move into it. Unless it turns into water vapor, which is a process that requires quite a lot of heat energy, cooling the remaining liquid or the surface.

[-] TheCompassMaker@beehaw.org 8 points 11 months ago

I don't see anything wrong with this explanation? Sweat (or more pendantically the water in sweat) does evaporate and that effect does remove total heat from the body.

[-] pkulak@beehaw.org 1 points 11 months ago

Yes. Your explanation is good.

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