111 is sweltering with humidity. I have only seen it a handful of times in the Midwest US. You MUST drink water, but there is nowhere for your sweat to go.
I’m from the UK. When I was out in Dubai, I worked through a 40-45°C midday without slowing down much, with plenty of water.
In the UK, the humidity and buildings mean I start slowing down around 25°C, 35°C has me basically a lost cause, in less I push myself hard. 40+ is hellish.
Northern Europe isn’t built for heat. It’s built to trap heat.
Heat becomes much more dangerous with high humidity. Which is why metereologists make charts with the wet bulb temperature or the dew point tenperature .
111 is sweltering with humidity. I have only seen it a handful of times in the Midwest US. You MUST drink water, but there is nowhere for your sweat to go.
Wait is Europe generally that humid? I can’t even imagine 40C+ degree weather with high humidity.
I’m from the UK. When I was out in Dubai, I worked through a 40-45°C midday without slowing down much, with plenty of water.
In the UK, the humidity and buildings mean I start slowing down around 25°C, 35°C has me basically a lost cause, in less I push myself hard. 40+ is hellish.
Northern Europe isn’t built for heat. It’s built to trap heat.
Yes, very humid.
In German, we use to call it Waschküchenwetter (Laundry room weather) as in the old days washing involved a lot of boiling water.
Funny how the terms have changed their meaning, when I was young it meant cold very foggy days in the Rhine area.
I mean, apart from the places that aren’t…
These are completely unremarkable temperatures for quite a lot of Europe, and quite a lot of Europe isn’t particularly humid.
“North-West Europe” != “Europe” (however much they think it to be true…)
With high temperatures, humidity is normally low in much of Europe (compared to humid climates). But somewhat higher in the Rhine valley.
It is this time more humid than normal, too.
Here is a table on the combined effect of heat and humidity:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_index
Heat becomes much more dangerous with high humidity. Which is why metereologists make charts with the wet bulb temperature or the dew point tenperature .
Europe also has additional problems having next to no AC industry too.
Those are deadly temperatures with the high humidity they have.