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It isn’t just inferior here, it is legitimately dangerous to human life. We regularly get black flag weather here in the southern U.S., where the wet bulb temp is so high that the human body can no longer shed heat via perspiration.

I love being outdoors, but I am very careful in conditions like we’ve had recently with 100+ temperatures and high humidity. Even fit persons can get heat stroke very easily. The UV index has also been incredibly high lately, I have to soak sunscreen on or I burn and my skin type is normally easily tans rarely burns.



> where the wet bulb temp is so high that the human body can no longer shed heat via perspiration.

What the parent poster just described is a very serious and real affliction that is capable of extinguishing human life. Believe it or not.




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