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How do you prep in a power outage due to an over-capacity system and the heat/humidity combination is no longer compatible with human life? (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What is wet bulb? I'm from the dry Canadian prairies

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s the temperature a thermometer will get to through evaporative cooling. You measure it by putting a wet cloth on the bulb of a thermometer and letting the water evaporate.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Essentially, your body cools you down by sweating, but if you reach a combination of sweat and heat above a certain degree, your body is unable to cool you down by sweating, as the air already has enough moisture and its hotter than your sweat.

Then you lose the ability to regulate your heat and you rapidly head towards a heat stroke.