Hacker News Reader

It is funny to me that this very thread has people writing personal accounts about temperature and not wet bulb temperatures.

30C in dry Arizona will not have the same effects on one’s body that 30C will in a humid Florida.

I would have thought this was more obvious to Swedish people, on account of experience with saunas. A 45°C Turkish sauna/steam room feels about comparable to a 80°C Finnish sauna (~10% humidity). And of course the way to make any Finnish-style sauna feel hotter is to pour some water over the rocks, increasing humidity.

You just need to them explain how sweat works. Sweat evaporate -> cool skin -> cools internal temp. Humidity high -> sweat no evaporate -> internal temp increases.