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But percentages in the stock market seem to be more important to efficiently combat climate change.
Heat index or apparent temperature is not the same as actual temperature. Would still suck but at least you aren't being pasteurized.
Source?
You’re right, context is important here.
The image came from a twitter post. „Heat index“ means basically „Feels like“.
https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/iran/bandar-abbas/historic?hd=20230808
Doesn’t mean it was fucking hot tho.
The heck is “heat index”
Jesus Christ, 158 F heat index is so far out of bounds on that scale it's insane. What's after "Extreme Danger"? "People will die"? "Being outside is suicide"?
I found this on the ol' search machine https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/08/09/iran-persian-gulf-extreme-heat/
Down voted. Please repost with a link to the source. We're better than this.
A heat index is not an actual temperature reading. This is disingenuous and people whom don't want to believe in things like climate change will latch on to and discredit people for things like this.
People who.
But the point is we'll taken. It seems like a really misleading headline. That doesn't help things at all.
Thanks, but the point is it needs to be the main link in the posting
Would like to see the option to add "Misleading Title" to articles, similar to what used to exist on "R". Not enough people downvote misleading stuff.
More like "image posted without a link to the source to verify it"
To me it was disingenuous to claim it was 70°C when it only "felt like" 70°C.
probably faulty sensor, there's no way the temp is 15 degrees higher than the current highest temperature ever measured
What was the actual temperature? Heat index is something different.
The real temperature are 58ºC, but relevant is the index, that is, how we percive the temperature. With a dry air you can support more than 70º (eg in a Sauna), but with high air humidity, which evite the evaporation cooling by your sweat, even 50ºC result lethal in a short time, rising corporal temperature over 43ºC. Because of this, it's the index which is the relevant value, not the one shown by the thermometer.
With a dry air you can support more than 70º (eg in a Sauna), but with high air humidity, which evite the evaporation cooling by your sweat
You got that flipped.
With dry air, your sweat can evaporate. Evaporation consumes energy, and thus has a cooling effect, making high temperatures more bearable/survivable at low humidity.
With humid air (eg in a sauna) your sweat cannot evaporate because the air is already saturated. This deprives you of the cooling effect, making humid conditions feel much hotter; and making it lethal much faster and at lower temps.
I see the confusion. A sauna is not necessarily humid, traditional Finnish sauna are hot but not high humidity. You're thinking of a steam sauna which is high humidity but lower temperature.
Oh, fair enough. I had no clue that there was even such a thing as a steamless sauna.
Yep.
100f+ degree weather with zero humidity? Sweat evaporates so quickly that with a fan on you or a breeze you can actually feel briefly chilled at times.
I know. There's also this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_temperature
But mentioning the actual temperature is less misleading.
With a dry air you can support more than 70º (eg in a Sauna), but with high air humidity, which evite the evaporation cooling by your sweat, even 50ºC result lethal in a short time,
Over 90C dry, 50C wet, 10-15 minutes. Longer/hotter if you take dips in cold water to cool down or if you're Finnish. They sometimes go over 100C, they're used to it.
Is hot but Washington Post article says the temperature in recent weeks has got as high as 51C and all time max is 54C. Where are you getting 58C from?
It would be amazing if some how the heat would cut off access to the persian gulf, it would definitely push the world to think of alternative energy
As if, they'd look for alternative routes
Choking off that straight would absolutely grind to a halt the economic engines of every asian major power faster than they could find a solution to exporting the hundreds of millions barrels a day though that hostile environment.
Dew points of 90-95F? JFC that’s nuts.
The title is a little clickbait-y: Heat Index is different from Temperature and not everyone knows that.
While it's still bad, it sensationalizes the matter and this can be used against you from people that have a different opinion on the subject.
You are right. That was pretty bad.