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I just deployed a Mastodon bot that posts forecasts for the most dangerous upcoming heatwaves
You can follow it at
To determine how dangerous a heatwave is, it uses wet-bulb temperature, which is the temperature that a body can be cooled to by evaporation
Sweating works to cool you because generally the wet-bulb temperature is lower than body temperature
As wet-bulb temperature increases and approaches body temperature, people can no longer cool themselves by sweating and will die
@heatwave And apologies to Americans, this is a Celsius-speaking bot
If there is enough interest I might deploy an alternate Fahrenheit version of the bot
@LilyoftheRally @eob @heatwave
Can you givexus a verse for understanding Fahrenheit?
@raphaelmorgan@disabled.social@CGdoppelpunkt @LilyoftheRally @eob @heatwave imperial measurements suck, best I can give you is "0 is freezing, 30 is still freezing, 60 is nice, 90 is hot"
Or "0 is freezing, 40 is not, 80 is warm, 120 is hot hot"
But those attitudes depend on where you live. Where I am in California, 75 is hot enough for people to wear our skimpiest clothes and 85 is hot enough for people to start complaining. More South or East still in Cali, people regularly see 110+. Another reason pneumonics are hard.
@raphaelmorgan Trust me - NO ONE is "used to 110+"
Forced to live in it, sure, but "used to it," get out of here.
@raphaelmorgan @CGdoppelpunkt @LilyoftheRally @eob @heatwave
When I had to learn Fahrenheits I found one suggestion quite intuitive. Assume the Fahrenheit scale as a percentage of "hotness". As in 0° is no heat at all in the air. One can freeze to death at that temperature. While 100° is 100% hot, it's really hot, and one can die of heat stroke at that temperature. Everything in between is a gradient between these two extremes with the comfortable zone at about 70%, pardon, 70°F