At 11:33 23-01-01 -0700, you wrote:
>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.
>
>--
>Andrea Leistra [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>"If you can keep your head while all those about you are
>losing theirs, perhaps you have misunderstood the situation."
> -- Daniel Keys Moran, _The Long Run_
And let's not forget such useful statements as the following:
"The temperature of the plasma at the Sun's center is 15 million degrees,
but I forget if that is Celsius or Absolute."
-- Ronn! :)
