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How do you prep in a power outage due to an over-capacity system and the heat/humidity combination is no longer compatible with human life? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by DevCat to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

You do not die immediately. Not sure about those areas but here in the PNW, when the temperature creeps up we have started having cooling stations for people who are not able to stay cool where they live. There were still a couple hundred deaths during the last big heatwave.

Basically people are not stationary. If they are too hot, they will find cooler places. Problems arise with people who are not as mobile (elderly) or if there is a major power outage.

The wet bulb temperature is not stationary, BTW. It is dependent on relative humidity. The temperature for it is going to differ in places like Arizona where it is higher compared to more humid places like SE Texas where it is lower. It's basically the temperature where your sweat is not able to cool you down.