On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Charlie Bell wrote:
[temperatures in C]
> 46 - death to humans...
Er, no.
As for cold, this depends a lot on how long you've been exposed
to the temperature, and even more on the humidity; it's not
exactly routine, but it will get this warm in Tucson now and
then, and I haven't seen people dropping dead in the street
from stepping outside at noon on those days. (I haven't been
able to find, in a cursory search, if it's gotten that warm
since I've been here.) And Phoenix, thanks to the urban heat-island
effect, consistently runs about 3-5 degrees warmer than here. And if
you consider heat index, rather than just temperature, you'll get
these sorts of levels in hot and humid areas quite frequently.
Now, I wouldn't want to be in that sort of heat all day long, but it
certainly isn't instant death.
I find a few rules of thumb more useful than all these ten-degree
increments; 0 is freezing, and thus chilly. 22 is room temperature,
and 37 is body temperature.
--
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"If you can keep your head while all those about you are
losing theirs, perhaps you have misunderstood the situation."
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