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“You can’t really do anything,” he says. “You just have to sit in front of a fan and wait for it to pass.”
Two metrics that haven’t fully slipped from jargon into household terminology are the wet-bulb globe temperature and heat index. The is a measure of both relative humidity and temperature. The WBGTwind speed and solar radiation. Compared to temperature alone, both the heat index and WBGT are more nuanced predictors of a human body’s experience of heat stress.
Evaporation is no longer possible at a wet-bulb temperature of 35°C , leading some to argue that this is the. “Even if the temperature is 40 but the humidity is very, very low, it doesn’t feel so hot,” says Kazutaka Oka, a researcher at Japan’s National Institute for Environmental Studies. India’s rising humidity extends to night-time conditions. In general, the lingering effect of heat at night – when people are unable to control their responses to heat, and when their bodies desperately need a break from the heat – is a stark warning of a recent CSE report,. “Especially at the night time, there’s a lot of humidity added to the city from human activities,” Somvanshi says.
Humidity affects not just the dangers of heat, but also the optimal responses. For people afflicted by heatstroke during humid heat,would be less effective than cooling down their bodies, Somvanshi says. The threat of dehydration is greater in dry heat.
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