It doesn't prevent sweating. I sweat like a pig in high humidity. It prevents evaporation of the sweat, and hence no cooling ability. I usually wind up soaking through my clothes when I'm outside. Fortunately, that still happens only about 1 week a year in So. NH.high humidity prevents sweating, which is pretty damn awful.
It doesn't prevent sweating. I sweat like a pig in high humidity. It prevents evaporation of the sweat, and hence no cooling ability. I usually wind up soaking through my clothes when I outside. Fortunately, that still happens only about 1 week a year in So. NH.
I know oldtimers who swear by dousing themselves with straight DEET and smoking a cigar. No thanks.
So far this year has actually been cooler then normal in my immediate area (Coastal CT) with a lot of overcast days but I seriously doubt it will last.
It doesn't prevent sweating. I sweat like a pig in high humidity. It prevents evaporation of the sweat, and hence no cooling ability. I usually wind up soaking through my clothes when I outside. Fortunately, that still happens only about 1 week a year in So. NH.
It's not really even that, you'll still sweat buckets. The normal function of the skin is that as the body heats up, the skin releases sweat so that it can evaporate off that hot water and cool down the rest of the body. If it doesn't evaporate, it just sits there on the skin until it drips off, meanwhile your body's temperature is still rising. It takes very little time in a high humidity environment over 99 degrees to pass into heat exhaustion, even while doing absolutely nothing. Anything above 85 with moderate exertion will get you there too eventually.Understood, but the unevaporated sweat sits on your skin and prevents pores from sweating more, correct?
I agree, I can stand the month or two we get in W. Mass (not consistent), but it's still miserable. I just tell myself - "I don't have to shovel it" - I hate snow I have to shovel
It's not really even that, you'll still sweat buckets. The normal function of the skin is that as the body heats up, the skin releases sweat so that it can evaporate off that hot water and cool down the rest of the body. If it doesn't evaporate, it just sits there on the skin until it drips off, meanwhile your body's temperature is still rising. It takes very little time in a high humidity environment over 99 degrees to pass into heat exhaustion, even while doing absolutely nothing. Anything above 85 with moderate exertion will get you there too eventually.
I don't think that is right. It'll just start running down your skin and soak your clothes.Understood, but the unevaporated sweat sits on your skin and prevents pores from sweating more, correct?
I don't think that is right. It'll just start running down your skin and soak your clothes.
Yep it's currently 59 F outside. It's almost mid June. Nothing above 77 so far. Normally, we would have had several 80 degree days by now.Same in the NW. It's been the wettest April/May/June in history and only got up to 59 or something Friday in Portland. Of course the persistent trough here is what causes the high and all the heat in the middle of the country. Sorry guys!
Water will be the most valuable substance on earth eventually.Remember when it was just fluoride in the water people worried about? Now it's, Is there water? And if so, how many human bodies have been dissolved in it?
*FRESH and drinkable* Water will be the most valuable substance on earth eventually.
I digress…
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91F with heat advisory, not sure what the index is, but it's stupid hot out right now, the electric heat pump cannot keep up. The AC side.
Going to be a miserable week this week for work. (outdoors) south central KY is ridiculously humid.
Read up on wet bulb temperatures. It'll be the new metric in a decade or so when more and more places become inhospitable to life without AC.
Wet-bulb temperature - Wikipedia
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Exactly. Collapse isn't coming, it's happening now.Start getting consistent dewpoints in the high 70's and 80's and watch that energy grid shit itself.