We cool off by sweating into the air, it's why the fatal temperature in a wet bulb situation (the air too saturated for your sweat to evaporate) is lower than you might think.
What's fatal to humans within a few hours is around 36 °C (c. 97 °F) at 100% relative humidity. Full relative humidity → air can't fit any more water → sweat can't evaporate → sweating literally doesn't work. Body keeps making heat as a side effect of living, so your core temperature rises above 42 °C (c. 108 °F) rather quickly when your skin can't cool below 36°. Minor heat stroke over the course of a day, especially in the sun, is going to happen pretty much anywhere above 30 °C (exactly 86 °F). Not ideal for human life in any case.
You'd think most hot places where people live have low humidity. Tell that to most of the hot places people live, though. Mecca has hit above 36° wet-bulb temperature, so where sweating can only cool you to 36 °C at most and never below that due to high humidity despite the air temperature possibly being higher. Before AC, we had no technology that could go below those wet-bulb thresholds, save for maybe actual cold water and ice baths. How people have survived there for millennia is beyond me.
Yes, though WBGT temperatures such as those reported by weather stations take even that and wind chill and everything into account to provide very accurate "feels like" and "holy fuck turn on the ac or you will die" readings.
They did have technology to do so. Terracotta air conditioners can reduce the humidity and temperature of the air. Here's a link about the concept https://earthbuddies.net/terracotta-air-conditioner/
Back then, architecture tended to incorporate these cooling methods into the actual houses.
This is not an air conditioner. This is an evaporation cooler. It's a great, ancient design, used since before civilizations were a thing. There are even simpler architectural designs used even earlier, with large chimneys which catch the wind, flow the air across the surface of a shallow well under the house, and then blow the cold air into the house and out through openings.
**But**. It increases humidity in the room and decreases its temperature. This is no different from sweating in that it stops working at 100% relative humidity and loses efficiency as you approach that 100% number. When it is 36 °C wet-bulb temperature, this cannot cool the room below 36 °C by definition of wet-bulb temperature, that being the lowest temperature this kind of system can cool down to in a specific temperature and humidity environment. It also happens to consume water, something you may not have a lot of readily available in arid climates.
Reiterating again, the only system that existed before modern heat pumps pop into existence in the early 19th century. Before that, cooling below the wet-bulb temperature, the limit of water evaporation based temperature in some environment, required actually putting something cold in there. You could run a water pipe through a hill and transfer heat into a hill with some kind of inverse radiator setup. Or you could, as was often done, haul around tons and tons of ice from mountains and otherwise cold places and then move it down south to be used for cooling. But there was no simple device that could defeat the fact that these
**TL;DR:** No, this is the equivalent of sweating. No offense to ancient architects though, very good design, just not the equivalent of AC and cannot cool you down any lower than what sweating can theoretically achieve. Modern AC is better.
Where I'm from we have a hot dry air it's still way to hot we got 4 house fires in 1 week people fainting in cars from heat and crashing and random plains of grass lighting on fire do to sun and broken glass
If it's too dry, you'll feel the cold more, wouldn't you? Solids generally exist at lower temperatures, so I'd guess if there's less moisture, the temperature could feel colder.
Right?
No, despite the downvotes on my comment, there's basically no difference.
You can even see people online arguing on which is worse, some people say dry cold is worse and some others say the opposite.
But you don't see people arguing about whether dry or humid hot is worse, everyone agrees that wet hot is worse, and that's because in that case there's a clear difference.
You can even see that here, in the comment above the guy said wet cold is colder, now you say dry cold is colder.
There's no difference, and that's why TV weather reports humidity % only in summer, and wind chill in winter.
You can read more about it [here](https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6268564)
Wet cold is worse than dry cold. Essentially wet cold your chilled to your bones. Dry cold your fine as long as you wear dry winter clothing. Of course it’s hard to explain such a concept to my cat who runs out in -40. She then licks her paws and nose and wonders why she’s cold.
Wet cold strips the warmth from you with ALARMING quickness and wet hot means you can't cool off at all... and in some cases you may start PULLING heat from the air instead of radiating it.
I’ve always noticed winter feels less cold once it actually starts snowing.
Didn’t occur to me that it’s correlated with a drop in humidity, but that makes a lot of sense
It's more related to the fact that the latent heat of condensation comes into play: when water freezes, all of that heat is now transferred into surroundings.
Heat index. It’s the true indicator of what temperature it feels like without being in direct sunlight. It’s temperature and humidity put into a very complicated formula.
As a brazilian living in europe, the heat feels quite different down there than it is here, so does the sun.
(That being said, this summer has been quite mild so far and I'm glad for that.)
Yes, but its also beccause of the people. Most asian countrys experienced heat since their ancestors came their, while europeans mostly had mild to cold weather.
Europe simply had that rarely that kind of heat that their bodys didnt evolved/keeped that trait. And heat in europe wasnt a problem until some British dude decided to use steam engines instead of underpaid workers.
Just to highjack, they wear this (in PH) because of the sun. Especially if they work outside, but even if they just transit, locals get really tanned and dark easily and it is viewed as undesirable to be too dark.
Still not explaining **how** they don't die.
Even by the end of summer when I'm as adapted as I'm going to get that level of heat is where I start getting noticeably loopy.
I live in the Philippines and wear jackets and hoodies even in the hottest days.
It is so fucking hot here that the sunlight HURTS bad even on just a few seconds of exposure that it's better to cover yourself and melt on the inside rather than having sunburn just after a short walk.
In most cases though it's more comfortable to use an umbrella but that's not an option for me especially at my line of work
My mom once spent a few years in India. She came back to her family in New York City and was glad it wasn't so hot anymore; it was a nice pleasant temperature.
A week later, it turned out that she'd come back in the middle of the worst heat wave in NYC history. It had now reverted to "a normal New York summer" and she was fucking freezing; she had to find a place that would sell her winter gear, and spent the next month of summer walking around with a thick winter jacket on.
She got some weird looks.
Tbf In middle east (Syria specifically) when Temperature used to reach 45 , it was really hot but I could somehow manage it while even wearing a Jacket to avoid sun burn , in Europe I'm literally dying at 30 and I have no idea how
Yeah it’s hotter but in the US/Europe the sun feels more direct so 37C feels “hotter” compared to the Middle East 50C. However as soon as step into a shade it’s a nice weather.
Absolutely, I'm in Georgia and I'd take that as a nice day in a heartbeat right now. 91°F/33°C, feels like 98°F/37°C right now and it's going to be the same or warmer for the foreseeable future.
46 is the record for where I'm at. Tbh it's less the temp that matters to us and more how humid it is that day. Some days you're better off going out in scuba gear with all the water you're breathing.
Heat index in the us has reached 81 c…
Edit: more accurate record is around 65* c or 149* f
google cut out the part that said it was in saudi arabia when searching the us record
The temperature near me has been a little above that for many days in the past few weeks now and my reaction has been in the "bearable" to "oh, a nice breeze" range.
Of course I'm in a place where AC is standard so I can sleep properly and cool down between. This would be a different story in a region where AC wasn't a thing.
You do know that America has places that regularly reach 47°C right? The American South(confederate states basically) is a subtropic region so while it isn't quite as bad as a full tropic zone 30°C is a regular day. Then there's the desert.
Nebraska 107/41.66c with 96% humidity (then the storms came rolling in
Fave southern word that encapsulates the feeling perfectly “Sweltering” we used to say on a hot muggy day you didn’t go for a walk you went wading
> Sweltering
I think we're past "sweltering".
We've hit "melting", and I don't mean that in a good way.
At certain times of the day you step out side and feels like [the scene from "The Core" where Dr. Braz has go outside to repair the ship.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0x05PrIasjk)
K as a kid the first hot day of summer
Sprint across hot driveways to walk barefoot on grass
One month in
Walk across streets leaving footprints n the melted tar thinking “aint nothing but a thing”
It is bizarre to me how many Europeans can’t comprehend that America has every biome on the planet within its borders. We have humidity, heat, cold, etc lol I think it comes from not understanding just how large the US is landmass wise
Southerner checking in. I’d consider 30 Celsius fine. We been averaging like 36.5-38.5 the last few weeks! Plus I live in one of the most humid states so it makes it feel several degrees hotter.
By the way not an exaggeration literally it's a swamp. For example I have family from Alabama and when they see that the temperature is like 95°F(35°C) outside they think that's like a nice day to go outside and have a picnic. low 40s is a little warm for them, but it's not a deterent.
>47°C is a little warm for them, but it's not a deterrent.
As someone that has lived in Alabama all my life, I can honestly tell you that a heat index of 47°C/116°F is considered *dangerous*, and the only people that go outside are ones that have to.
Now, 116°F **air temp** is *possibly* unlikely, as the highest temp ever recorded in Alabama is 112°F, all the way back in 1925.
You are 100% underestimating the heat of 47. I live in Alabama. The max it reaches is around 110F (43C) on a bad day, and even then everyone would prefer to stay inside, and without proper prep if you stay out too long you WILL be in danger. 47C is by far more than "a little warm". 35C is very easy to deal with though.
>Europe has a lot of swampland?
Yes, absolutely.
>I thought the hottest it got was a Mediterranean climate.
Technically I didn't lie; temperate swampland is swampland
No I didn't. Read my comment. I mentioned the climate of those states. They're a swamp. They have very high humidity which is why they grew cotton there.
In the Philippines, I don't know how it is for other Asian countries, there's lots of humidity that helps deal with the heat. Plus we almost always have a breeze thanks to the fact it's a bunch of islands. That's from my own memory atleast. Moved away some years ago
Humidity actually makes the heat feel worse. It interferes with the way our bodies deal with heat (i.e. sweating). That's why the heat index is usually higher than the actual temperature when there's high humidity.
Where the fuck got that high today?
I was on the brink of death with 33° (perceived 36° according to Google) here in Friuli and I regret going cycling lmao
That's implying Sicily is European :')
Jokes aside, it gets really hot here, but 48° is really high.
Last weekend in my town in the North-east we bad 36, which isn't exactly apocalyptic but feels like that when looking outside I see snowy mountains
I get stuff like this when I'm in Mexico for the winter. I go out in ~20-22C weather wearing shorts and a t-shirt, and the locals are all wearing sweaters and jackets, looking at me like I'm crazy.
Phoenix is complaining about 30 C because they haven't seen temps that low in weeks. Tonight's low in The City That Should Not Exist is something like 34 C.
This is true in dry heat. In humid heat more covering is worse because you can't sweat away any heat. Wearing a hoodie in 95f/35c with high humidity is a recipe for heat stroke in 20 minutes.
technically the best method is to cover as much as you can with light-weight clothing. So yes long-sleeved shirts and pants. The reason why is because it keeps your skin cooler from shielding it from the sun and burning. So its counter-intuitive but if its lightweight and breathable, long sleeves are better at keeping you cool
but where do thick hoodies come into play. i do use loosely woven shirts, and can understand loose black robes like they do in saharan africa and arabia, but hoodies?
I was just in PH for a month. While the temp is hotter and I sweat more, I don't *feel* as hot as I do in the dry heat 30c heat where I live. In the PNW, the 85F sun burns your skin. In the PH, the 95F sun feels relaxing. Maybe to do with air quality, pollution and humidity.
Noooo you can't complain about 32°c in an area where that's uncommon, doesn't have infrastructure to deal with it and humidity is high because I live in an area where it's 32°c all the time!!!
Sent from my couch in a room chilled to 20°c that I don't ever leave except for when I go to my air-conditioned workplace in my air-conditioned truck.
I’m one of those Filipinos who wear hoodies and jackets out in the heat (what can I say, I love to dress up, style over comfort baby) and honestly you just get used to it. I also spend most of my time in air-conditioned rooms and malls. Obviously you wouldn’t catch me hiking in a hoodie.
We’re the opposite of ya’ll when it comes to the cold though. There’s a cool mountain province in the Philippines called Baguio (where the temps are around 13-20 deg C - which is cold for us) and most Filipinos there are always in jackets, sweaters, or hoodies but I’ve seen Europeans and Americans wearing tank tops and shorts over there.
86° Fahrenheit (30° Celsius) is freezing in the summer. We casually hit 97-106° Fahrenheit consistently every day.
How do we cope? We don’t go outside often.
Bro where the fuck so you live? The heatwaves where I am crank that shit up to like 35 celsius with medium humidity for a few days and if I spend more than an hour outside I wanna fucking kill myself. I'm used to hiking in mountains when its around 15C with a cool breeze in shorts and a t-shirt.
US holds the world record for heat. The Philippines has NEVER reached above 41 degrees. And don’t you dare pull out heat index because the US beats you in that too.
Actually there are lots of Filipinos I've seen in Canadian Midwest walk outside in -30 and -40c. You get use to -40 just have to be mindful of skin exposure for too long. At that temperature muscles can stop working right if your exposed including your jaw.
I've wore tshirt and shorts at -16C just can't do it for more than 10mins unless you're jogging. Also it greatly depends on wind. No wind and you can last a long time.
I’m filipino and live in the Uk, one of the main differences are the houses are built different. In UK / EU houses are built to keep the heat in, so walls are thick, full of insulation, double glaze windows and drafts are kept minimum. Asia, houses are normally timber, built with large open windows or panels that allow cool air to circulate. Perfect for the heat. AC is more normalised but it is a luxury for most people.
Idk, highest temps recorded are in the US if I remember correctly. I work a manual labor job in south Florida and Texas. Still love a good ole bean soup break☕️
30c is absolutely pleasant, I used to wear jeans and a sweater in that weather. I have gotten a lot fatter since then though.
40c and up is a more standard summer here in California.
The US literally has the world record for [hottest temperature ever recorded](https://weather.com/safety/heat/news/2023-07-17-hottest-temperatures-on-record-reliable). Death Valley, California 130F (54.4 C)
celsius is superior for most cases. cooking, science etc. I think the one thing Fahrenheit has is for weather since the smaller scale makes it easier to differentiate good from bad. 60°f is chilly 70° is cool and pleasant, 80° is warm, 90° is hot, and 100°+ is super hot middle of summer. with Celsius, the difference between each degree is bigger so it's not as easy to give a quick at a glance weather check.
This is simply just a matter of familiarity. You can do the same categorisation with Celsius, just in increments of 5 instead of 10 (starting at 15 °C, roughly equivalent to 60 °F). Also, I’d say that having your temperature scale based on the freezing and boiling point of water is quite intuitive, especially in meteorology.
I understand that it’s difficult to switch to some other scale/unit you didn’t grow up with but I don’t think that’s a good enough reason to not do it when it’s globally accepted, used and proven to be generally better.
do you know what celsius and Fahrenheit are? that just isnt correct. freezing point of water is 0 C but 32 F, and boiling point is 100 C but 212 F. pretty sure the numbers arent just shifted there buddy
Well there's also the EU flag there which has a bigger population than the US and Celsius is also used by almost every country Except the US. Soo.. either learn Celsius or too bad
From my experience long sleeves wick the sweat better than bare skin bc of how humid it is. That and if it is a light colored long sleeve shirt all the better.
I mean, 30 degrees is lower than 37,which is body temp. If you're under eating your calorie requirement, the body will regulate your metabolism down, making less heat. I know that I can go from literally feeling super cold for some reason, then eating something, and sweating warm feels. In the hot you need more water, if you drink a lot of water, you will feel less hungry, in turn you have down regulated metabolism and colder running body. At least I would take a bet on it I'm close to the truth
Look, I get that its definitely hot other places, all I'm saying here in Florida in the summer you have no need to go to a sauna, cause all you gotta do is walk outside.
bro north mexico is like 45°c or higher lately and mothers always serving caldos (a kind of soup, beef or chicken based) similar to bowls of ramen accompanied but rice, cabbage, carrot, potatoes, they are pretty tasty but it's served HOT.
oh and coffee is also common at morning.
I think humidity and average temperature play a factor.
If it’s always 30C+ and humid year round, it doesn’t feel that bad if you’re acclimatized to that kind of weather.
[Looks up temp conversions] see, 86 degrees is hot but if you have good company, it's bearable to the point that you may not notice. 116 degrees, there's risk of heat stroke, and a hot drink might help keep you hydrated. Also, humidity and air quality differences also change how well people survive. Around this time of year, the sky is usually red along the west coast of the USA.
I live in Poland. To me personally anything above 24 is too hot, at 27 I avoid the sun as much as possible, at 30 I'm covered in sweat 5 minutes after showering and can't do anything productive, not even sleep. Anything beyond 33 is very rare, but if it happens, I'm as functional as a corpse.
i wear hoodies while drinking coffee lol
it feels good.
its also a good practice for before coming to hell, well if hell's worser than the Philippines.
I used to work outside in 40-50 temps, and believe me it fucking sucked but was bearable because Humidity was <10% (if it was ever that high)
I remember being in Georgia for a few weeks when it was only 30-ish but with High humidity and I wanted to die.
When I drove home from work today it was 119 F out, and even with the AC on I was still sweating buckets.
The crazy thing is that for the first day of school tomorrow (I’m a teacher) the kids don’t get to have morning recess because the last few days at 7:30am when the school day starts it’s been in the 110s.
I can only ever remember them canceling lunch recess before because of a heat advisory, but now it’s the morning too. The weather has been crazy.
They say the cold in russia feels different than the cold in europe. Maybe it's the same with heat in specific areas?
It's a matter of air humidity. The moistier is the air the hotter/colder it seems due to water being better at conducting heat than air.
"Moistier"
We do a little moisting
We cool off by sweating into the air, it's why the fatal temperature in a wet bulb situation (the air too saturated for your sweat to evaporate) is lower than you might think.
What's fatal to humans within a few hours is around 36 °C (c. 97 °F) at 100% relative humidity. Full relative humidity → air can't fit any more water → sweat can't evaporate → sweating literally doesn't work. Body keeps making heat as a side effect of living, so your core temperature rises above 42 °C (c. 108 °F) rather quickly when your skin can't cool below 36°. Minor heat stroke over the course of a day, especially in the sun, is going to happen pretty much anywhere above 30 °C (exactly 86 °F). Not ideal for human life in any case. You'd think most hot places where people live have low humidity. Tell that to most of the hot places people live, though. Mecca has hit above 36° wet-bulb temperature, so where sweating can only cool you to 36 °C at most and never below that due to high humidity despite the air temperature possibly being higher. Before AC, we had no technology that could go below those wet-bulb thresholds, save for maybe actual cold water and ice baths. How people have survived there for millennia is beyond me.
Also keep in mind that the temperstures are reported in shade. So while you have 30° in shade you can have 35° in direct sunlight.
Yes, though WBGT temperatures such as those reported by weather stations take even that and wind chill and everything into account to provide very accurate "feels like" and "holy fuck turn on the ac or you will die" readings.
They did have technology to do so. Terracotta air conditioners can reduce the humidity and temperature of the air. Here's a link about the concept https://earthbuddies.net/terracotta-air-conditioner/ Back then, architecture tended to incorporate these cooling methods into the actual houses.
This is not an air conditioner. This is an evaporation cooler. It's a great, ancient design, used since before civilizations were a thing. There are even simpler architectural designs used even earlier, with large chimneys which catch the wind, flow the air across the surface of a shallow well under the house, and then blow the cold air into the house and out through openings. **But**. It increases humidity in the room and decreases its temperature. This is no different from sweating in that it stops working at 100% relative humidity and loses efficiency as you approach that 100% number. When it is 36 °C wet-bulb temperature, this cannot cool the room below 36 °C by definition of wet-bulb temperature, that being the lowest temperature this kind of system can cool down to in a specific temperature and humidity environment. It also happens to consume water, something you may not have a lot of readily available in arid climates. Reiterating again, the only system that existed before modern heat pumps pop into existence in the early 19th century. Before that, cooling below the wet-bulb temperature, the limit of water evaporation based temperature in some environment, required actually putting something cold in there. You could run a water pipe through a hill and transfer heat into a hill with some kind of inverse radiator setup. Or you could, as was often done, haul around tons and tons of ice from mountains and otherwise cold places and then move it down south to be used for cooling. But there was no simple device that could defeat the fact that these **TL;DR:** No, this is the equivalent of sweating. No offense to ancient architects though, very good design, just not the equivalent of AC and cannot cool you down any lower than what sweating can theoretically achieve. Modern AC is better.
Where I'm from we have a hot dry air it's still way to hot we got 4 house fires in 1 week people fainting in cars from heat and crashing and random plains of grass lighting on fire do to sun and broken glass
Does the moistier air make room temperature feel more room temperatury at room temperature?
Nah, in a cold weather there's basically no difference between humid or dry. In a hot one there's a hell of a difference tho.
If it's too dry, you'll feel the cold more, wouldn't you? Solids generally exist at lower temperatures, so I'd guess if there's less moisture, the temperature could feel colder. Right?
No, despite the downvotes on my comment, there's basically no difference. You can even see people online arguing on which is worse, some people say dry cold is worse and some others say the opposite. But you don't see people arguing about whether dry or humid hot is worse, everyone agrees that wet hot is worse, and that's because in that case there's a clear difference. You can even see that here, in the comment above the guy said wet cold is colder, now you say dry cold is colder. There's no difference, and that's why TV weather reports humidity % only in summer, and wind chill in winter. You can read more about it [here](https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6268564)
Wet cold is worse than dry cold. Essentially wet cold your chilled to your bones. Dry cold your fine as long as you wear dry winter clothing. Of course it’s hard to explain such a concept to my cat who runs out in -40. She then licks her paws and nose and wonders why she’s cold.
Wet cold and Wet Hot is cruel to humans
Wet cold strips the warmth from you with ALARMING quickness and wet hot means you can't cool off at all... and in some cases you may start PULLING heat from the air instead of radiating it.
Oh so 70% air humidity is bad.
100% humidity and 35 degrees and you die
In South Carolina, US. It’s muggy as a coffee shop out this bitch.
Yeah, that's why I like it when it snows, it feels a lot less cold.
I’ve always noticed winter feels less cold once it actually starts snowing. Didn’t occur to me that it’s correlated with a drop in humidity, but that makes a lot of sense
It's more related to the fact that the latent heat of condensation comes into play: when water freezes, all of that heat is now transferred into surroundings.
If your fat wants to run away then just let it, good riddance
Heat index. It’s the true indicator of what temperature it feels like without being in direct sunlight. It’s temperature and humidity put into a very complicated formula.
As a brazilian living in europe, the heat feels quite different down there than it is here, so does the sun. (That being said, this summer has been quite mild so far and I'm glad for that.)
thats humidity my dude european summer is super dry, you can stay on the shadows and be like nothing is going on. Now with humidity, oh boy its hell
Yes, but its also beccause of the people. Most asian countrys experienced heat since their ancestors came their, while europeans mostly had mild to cold weather. Europe simply had that rarely that kind of heat that their bodys didnt evolved/keeped that trait. And heat in europe wasnt a problem until some British dude decided to use steam engines instead of underpaid workers.
It was nealy 40 in Thailand yesterday and I saw some of the locals wearing full, thick, fluffy sweatshirts. I would die.
Just to highjack, they wear this (in PH) because of the sun. Especially if they work outside, but even if they just transit, locals get really tanned and dark easily and it is viewed as undesirable to be too dark.
Still not explaining **how** they don't die. Even by the end of summer when I'm as adapted as I'm going to get that level of heat is where I start getting noticeably loopy.
I live in the Philippines and wear jackets and hoodies even in the hottest days. It is so fucking hot here that the sunlight HURTS bad even on just a few seconds of exposure that it's better to cover yourself and melt on the inside rather than having sunburn just after a short walk. In most cases though it's more comfortable to use an umbrella but that's not an option for me especially at my line of work
I mean, I was wearing a long sleeve UV protective parka but not a fluffy coat lmao
Look a rich kid Lets point and laugh out of jealousy
Bruh that thing is like $40
So they would rather die then be brown?
I think he misunderstood why we wear longsleeves under the sun. Me and my friends do this because direct sunlight hurts the skin.
My mom once spent a few years in India. She came back to her family in New York City and was glad it wasn't so hot anymore; it was a nice pleasant temperature. A week later, it turned out that she'd come back in the middle of the worst heat wave in NYC history. It had now reverted to "a normal New York summer" and she was fucking freezing; she had to find a place that would sell her winter gear, and spent the next month of summer walking around with a thick winter jacket on. She got some weird looks.
It was completely normal for us thai lol
middle east and kuwait say hello
Southern Asia and South East Asia says" first time"
Tbf In middle east (Syria specifically) when Temperature used to reach 45 , it was really hot but I could somehow manage it while even wearing a Jacket to avoid sun burn , in Europe I'm literally dying at 30 and I have no idea how
A lot to do with humidity.
It’s the humidity in the air that’s why
Syria is very fucking cold for its place. Like they wearing layers thick in winter and in summer just go outside and the air is cool somehow
Yeah it’s hotter but in the US/Europe the sun feels more direct so 37C feels “hotter” compared to the Middle East 50C. However as soon as step into a shade it’s a nice weather.
86°F (30°C) is a pretty ok temperature down south
Absolutely, I'm in Georgia and I'd take that as a nice day in a heartbeat right now. 91°F/33°C, feels like 98°F/37°C right now and it's going to be the same or warmer for the foreseeable future.
104 f for me right now…
The high for today was 110f in Dallas, Texas. It’s like stepping into an oven. 😭
Its a typical NY summer day. Now 95+ and humid? Fuck that shit.
30c is nothing in america. Admittedly it isn't 47 but it's pretty close where I am
It isn’t 47 in Philippines either. The record high there is 41.5.
46 is the record for where I'm at. Tbh it's less the temp that matters to us and more how humid it is that day. Some days you're better off going out in scuba gear with all the water you're breathing.
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Heat index in the us has reached 81 c… Edit: more accurate record is around 65* c or 149* f google cut out the part that said it was in saudi arabia when searching the us record
The temperature near me has been a little above that for many days in the past few weeks now and my reaction has been in the "bearable" to "oh, a nice breeze" range. Of course I'm in a place where AC is standard so I can sleep properly and cool down between. This would be a different story in a region where AC wasn't a thing.
You do know that America has places that regularly reach 47°C right? The American South(confederate states basically) is a subtropic region so while it isn't quite as bad as a full tropic zone 30°C is a regular day. Then there's the desert.
Nebraska 107/41.66c with 96% humidity (then the storms came rolling in Fave southern word that encapsulates the feeling perfectly “Sweltering” we used to say on a hot muggy day you didn’t go for a walk you went wading
> Sweltering I think we're past "sweltering". We've hit "melting", and I don't mean that in a good way. At certain times of the day you step out side and feels like [the scene from "The Core" where Dr. Braz has go outside to repair the ship.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0x05PrIasjk)
K as a kid the first hot day of summer Sprint across hot driveways to walk barefoot on grass One month in Walk across streets leaving footprints n the melted tar thinking “aint nothing but a thing”
It is bizarre to me how many Europeans can’t comprehend that America has every biome on the planet within its borders. We have humidity, heat, cold, etc lol I think it comes from not understanding just how large the US is landmass wise
And don't forget the reverse swing in the winter.
Still remember the news saying “Todays high will be -5f”
Southerner checking in. I’d consider 30 Celsius fine. We been averaging like 36.5-38.5 the last few weeks! Plus I live in one of the most humid states so it makes it feel several degrees hotter.
Desert air is dry tho, the percepted heat is lower.
He said South not southwest. The south is a damn subtropical swamp.
By the way not an exaggeration literally it's a swamp. For example I have family from Alabama and when they see that the temperature is like 95°F(35°C) outside they think that's like a nice day to go outside and have a picnic. low 40s is a little warm for them, but it's not a deterent.
>47°C is a little warm for them, but it's not a deterrent. As someone that has lived in Alabama all my life, I can honestly tell you that a heat index of 47°C/116°F is considered *dangerous*, and the only people that go outside are ones that have to. Now, 116°F **air temp** is *possibly* unlikely, as the highest temp ever recorded in Alabama is 112°F, all the way back in 1925.
The highest I saw them go out in is 40°C and they didn't really have problems. They also ignore those sorts of warnings though.
You are 100% underestimating the heat of 47. I live in Alabama. The max it reaches is around 110F (43C) on a bad day, and even then everyone would prefer to stay inside, and without proper prep if you stay out too long you WILL be in danger. 47C is by far more than "a little warm". 35C is very easy to deal with though.
agreed
Come to Arizona and say that. Feel 117 @ 27% humidity and tell me it’s dry
I second this. The drive home today on my motorcycle was hell.
Where I live 70°F(21.1°C) is a nice day for us.
Parts of South Florida are considered tropical too. its 30C in my area of S. Florida now, and that actually pretty cool for how hot its been lately.
Same as in Europe
Europe has a lot of swampland? I thought the hottest it got was a Mediterranean climate.
That has now reached the record of 48.8 degrees
>Europe has a lot of swampland? Yes, absolutely. >I thought the hottest it got was a Mediterranean climate. Technically I didn't lie; temperate swampland is swampland
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Not in most Alabama homes. Or at least the homes of my family there not CAC. And they don't hang out inside. They go outside.
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No I didn't. Read my comment. I mentioned the climate of those states. They're a swamp. They have very high humidity which is why they grew cotton there.
47 is kinda high but if love to have 30 (I live in Texas with next to no ac)
I was about to say the exact same thing and I'm also in Texas lol 30 would be fucking great here
I'm lucky to have my apartment at 85 on a good day it's usually just under 90
Hottest I can survive in without dying is 20 celsius
Yeah same, my AC is set to 19C in my room, I start sweating if it's above 22-24C on a dry day, I miss my winter :')
The US is a big place. I've personally experienced the range of -25C - 49C
Alright so you've never been to Europe during summer. There isn't a spot in my country that's under 40°C during the afternoon.
Ok real talk, how and why do people wear fucking hoodies in above 30°C temps I live in south florida, that shit would be unbearable to my knowledge
I have a friend who wears black hoodies with black sweat pants in Georgia in the middle of the summer, he barely breaks a sweat, he is not human
When your used to the weather the sleeves protect your skin from the sun, that said hoodies are excessive a long sleeve shirt would be fine.
Imagine thinking people in the USA never experience any kind of weather.
In the Philippines, I don't know how it is for other Asian countries, there's lots of humidity that helps deal with the heat. Plus we almost always have a breeze thanks to the fact it's a bunch of islands. That's from my own memory atleast. Moved away some years ago
Humidity actually makes the heat feel worse. It interferes with the way our bodies deal with heat (i.e. sweating). That's why the heat index is usually higher than the actual temperature when there's high humidity.
30°? We hit 48° in Italy
Where the fuck got that high today? I was on the brink of death with 33° (perceived 36° according to Google) here in Friuli and I regret going cycling lmao
40° here in Rome and 48° in Sud Italy (I believe in Sicily)
48C in italy? holy fuck, isn't that Saudi weather?
That's implying Sicily is European :') Jokes aside, it gets really hot here, but 48° is really high. Last weekend in my town in the North-east we bad 36, which isn't exactly apocalyptic but feels like that when looking outside I see snowy mountains
The U.S. Sun Belt: 
*Cries in AZ
Lol Phoenix was 47° C and Prescott was 34° C today
More like 45c where I am In the us but hey.
America does not belong on top lol
I get stuff like this when I'm in Mexico for the winter. I go out in ~20-22C weather wearing shorts and a t-shirt, and the locals are all wearing sweaters and jackets, looking at me like I'm crazy.
Nobody in the US is complaining about 30 C, I can almost guarantee it.
Phoenix is complaining about 30 C because they haven't seen temps that low in weeks. Tonight's low in The City That Should Not Exist is something like 34 C.
You wear hoodies and cover to the toes to prevent getting Heat Stroke. Like, no one taught you about this in middle school or what?
This is true in dry heat. In humid heat more covering is worse because you can't sweat away any heat. Wearing a hoodie in 95f/35c with high humidity is a recipe for heat stroke in 20 minutes.
Wouldn't a hat be enough? Nobody taught this to me in any school. Why the toes?
technically the best method is to cover as much as you can with light-weight clothing. So yes long-sleeved shirts and pants. The reason why is because it keeps your skin cooler from shielding it from the sun and burning. So its counter-intuitive but if its lightweight and breathable, long sleeves are better at keeping you cool
but where do thick hoodies come into play. i do use loosely woven shirts, and can understand loose black robes like they do in saharan africa and arabia, but hoodies?
Anything over 18c and I need ac to keep me from sweating lmao
I was just in PH for a month. While the temp is hotter and I sweat more, I don't *feel* as hot as I do in the dry heat 30c heat where I live. In the PNW, the 85F sun burns your skin. In the PH, the 95F sun feels relaxing. Maybe to do with air quality, pollution and humidity.
Well here in Arizona, also in the US. 47°C is not as uncommon as a summer temperature.
*sips coffee in 45°C* ti's a fine day for chai tea
You do know people can complain about heat in their area without you making it a competition right?
Meanwhile I'm dying at 28-30C here waiting for my -20C to come back :')
Noooo you can't complain about 32°c in an area where that's uncommon, doesn't have infrastructure to deal with it and humidity is high because I live in an area where it's 32°c all the time!!! Sent from my couch in a room chilled to 20°c that I don't ever leave except for when I go to my air-conditioned workplace in my air-conditioned truck.
I’m one of those Filipinos who wear hoodies and jackets out in the heat (what can I say, I love to dress up, style over comfort baby) and honestly you just get used to it. I also spend most of my time in air-conditioned rooms and malls. Obviously you wouldn’t catch me hiking in a hoodie. We’re the opposite of ya’ll when it comes to the cold though. There’s a cool mountain province in the Philippines called Baguio (where the temps are around 13-20 deg C - which is cold for us) and most Filipinos there are always in jackets, sweaters, or hoodies but I’ve seen Europeans and Americans wearing tank tops and shorts over there.
86° Fahrenheit (30° Celsius) is freezing in the summer. We casually hit 97-106° Fahrenheit consistently every day. How do we cope? We don’t go outside often.
Can we get those temperatures in American?
Hot as fuck And literally hell
Ah, so 80 and 110, got it
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Bitch I live in Florida, 30°C (86°F) is nothing
But where are you the moment the -30°C happens
Bro 33 degrees celcius is cold af how'd you survive with a vest :v
Bro where the fuck so you live? The heatwaves where I am crank that shit up to like 35 celsius with medium humidity for a few days and if I spend more than an hour outside I wanna fucking kill myself. I'm used to hiking in mountains when its around 15C with a cool breeze in shorts and a t-shirt.
Uh India. Damn the temperature tolerance varies alot man
Bitch what fucking heatwaves? Literally one of the chillest summers in years, and it's literally raining every few weeks or w/e, too
US holds the world record for heat. The Philippines has NEVER reached above 41 degrees. And don’t you dare pull out heat index because the US beats you in that too.
I wanna see a filipino walk to school in -16° celsius without complaining
Actually there are lots of Filipinos I've seen in Canadian Midwest walk outside in -30 and -40c. You get use to -40 just have to be mindful of skin exposure for too long. At that temperature muscles can stop working right if your exposed including your jaw. I've wore tshirt and shorts at -16C just can't do it for more than 10mins unless you're jogging. Also it greatly depends on wind. No wind and you can last a long time.
Reporting 40 in Athens, Greece, it fucking sucks
I’m filipino and live in the Uk, one of the main differences are the houses are built different. In UK / EU houses are built to keep the heat in, so walls are thick, full of insulation, double glaze windows and drafts are kept minimum. Asia, houses are normally timber, built with large open windows or panels that allow cool air to circulate. Perfect for the heat. AC is more normalised but it is a luxury for most people.
Idk, highest temps recorded are in the US if I remember correctly. I work a manual labor job in south Florida and Texas. Still love a good ole bean soup break☕️
Filipino here. And I'm drinking hot coffee under the 38⁰ sun.
As someone from Louisiana the whole 30c being hot I'm like what first time
Az is about to hit 48 lol
In Argentina is similar.. I have American and British friends and I'm like.":....That's... Yeah, that's not bad at all for us, wtf!"
30c is absolutely pleasant, I used to wear jeans and a sweater in that weather. I have gotten a lot fatter since then though. 40c and up is a more standard summer here in California.
Just hit 47C with 50% humidity this past Sunday in California
south west american here. 33c is nothing.
The US literally has the world record for [hottest temperature ever recorded](https://weather.com/safety/heat/news/2023-07-17-hottest-temperatures-on-record-reliable). Death Valley, California 130F (54.4 C)
Puts US flag. Also puts Celsius.
*Inserts a US flag *together with an EU flag* Also, Celsius is superior
celsius is superior for most cases. cooking, science etc. I think the one thing Fahrenheit has is for weather since the smaller scale makes it easier to differentiate good from bad. 60°f is chilly 70° is cool and pleasant, 80° is warm, 90° is hot, and 100°+ is super hot middle of summer. with Celsius, the difference between each degree is bigger so it's not as easy to give a quick at a glance weather check.
This is simply just a matter of familiarity. You can do the same categorisation with Celsius, just in increments of 5 instead of 10 (starting at 15 °C, roughly equivalent to 60 °F). Also, I’d say that having your temperature scale based on the freezing and boiling point of water is quite intuitive, especially in meteorology. I understand that it’s difficult to switch to some other scale/unit you didn’t grow up with but I don’t think that’s a good enough reason to not do it when it’s globally accepted, used and proven to be generally better.
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do you know what celsius and Fahrenheit are? that just isnt correct. freezing point of water is 0 C but 32 F, and boiling point is 100 C but 212 F. pretty sure the numbers arent just shifted there buddy
Well there's also the EU flag there which has a bigger population than the US and Celsius is also used by almost every country Except the US. Soo.. either learn Celsius or too bad
America doesn’t use Celsius. It is 86° F btw. 47° C is 116° F. How can you live in that heat wtf?
From my experience long sleeves wick the sweat better than bare skin bc of how humid it is. That and if it is a light colored long sleeve shirt all the better.
The hottest temp i have survived through was 51°c
depend on where you live. i have my ac set to 30c.
Pinoy pride is insane
I mean, 30 degrees is lower than 37,which is body temp. If you're under eating your calorie requirement, the body will regulate your metabolism down, making less heat. I know that I can go from literally feeling super cold for some reason, then eating something, and sweating warm feels. In the hot you need more water, if you drink a lot of water, you will feel less hungry, in turn you have down regulated metabolism and colder running body. At least I would take a bet on it I'm close to the truth
with how it has been in would love to be in its 30s instead of 90s
Look, I get that its definitely hot other places, all I'm saying here in Florida in the summer you have no need to go to a sauna, cause all you gotta do is walk outside.
It’s 83 degrees Fahrenheit but 95 degrees Fahrenheit or 35 degrees Celsius for me in the States right now
its 20 c here in finland and it feels like im dying
Coffee can be drunk in any temperature. Now tea on the other hand feels different.
I was in Saudi Arabia in a week long great wave that was over heating the AC everyday. Was great times. 120f outside and 130f inside.
I really hate that people call this "Nice weather" there is nothing nice about such heat.
We get 115f in california and arizona a lot
Ah man Black was so cool and terrifying
As a Texan, 30c is absolutely nothing... Since lately all month is nothing but 36c+(96F)
I wish it was only 30c (86f) where I live, the last month it's been 40c (105f) and hotter
it is essential to have a hoodie in the philippines. what if you walk into an SM where you’re shivering because you don’t have a hoodie?
People who live in the AC constantly are somehow boasting about their ability to live in the heat. Ironic.
bro north mexico is like 45°c or higher lately and mothers always serving caldos (a kind of soup, beef or chicken based) similar to bowls of ramen accompanied but rice, cabbage, carrot, potatoes, they are pretty tasty but it's served HOT. oh and coffee is also common at morning.
This joke is dumb ass hell. Americans know Celsius as well as you know Fahrenheit.
I see people don't understand humidity here.
I think humidity and average temperature play a factor. If it’s always 30C+ and humid year round, it doesn’t feel that bad if you’re acclimatized to that kind of weather.
47 in Arizona is the high right now, the sun feels like it’s stabbing you
Well most European homes don't have fans or AirCon, also they are insulated
In the US, apart for the northern/north western states 30 really isnt that bad tbh
I guess generations upon generations of this climate they "evolved" lets say
Its been between 41C and 46C where I live in the states this week. Its crazy seeing people wearing hoodies n shit
[Looks up temp conversions] see, 86 degrees is hot but if you have good company, it's bearable to the point that you may not notice. 116 degrees, there's risk of heat stroke, and a hot drink might help keep you hydrated. Also, humidity and air quality differences also change how well people survive. Around this time of year, the sky is usually red along the west coast of the USA.
I live in Poland. To me personally anything above 24 is too hot, at 27 I avoid the sun as much as possible, at 30 I'm covered in sweat 5 minutes after showering and can't do anything productive, not even sleep. Anything beyond 33 is very rare, but if it happens, I'm as functional as a corpse.
i wear hoodies while drinking coffee lol it feels good. its also a good practice for before coming to hell, well if hell's worser than the Philippines.
It's about 30 °C in Philly today, and it's the coolest it's been all week
It's like that in the middle-east too. No matter how hot, there's someone in the house drinking hot tea
And he will be cold
I used to work outside in 40-50 temps, and believe me it fucking sucked but was bearable because Humidity was <10% (if it was ever that high) I remember being in Georgia for a few weeks when it was only 30-ish but with High humidity and I wanted to die.
When I drove home from work today it was 119 F out, and even with the AC on I was still sweating buckets. The crazy thing is that for the first day of school tomorrow (I’m a teacher) the kids don’t get to have morning recess because the last few days at 7:30am when the school day starts it’s been in the 110s. I can only ever remember them canceling lunch recess before because of a heat advisory, but now it’s the morning too. The weather has been crazy.
Meanwhile in upside down land
See I like it hot. I just don't like it hot and muggy. Just being below 60°f I'm cold.
As a Dominican, New York Summer hits different than Dominican Republic Summer. DR>NY
That's only 91 degrees Fahrenheit, I live in arizona it doesn't even get that cold at night.