Deme
@Deme@lemmy.world
Interested in weather, meteorology and photography.
- Comment on 🐸 time 1 month ago:
An extreme value is always only extreme in relation to some baseline. For temperatures it’s usually a value that departs far from the local average. With WBT it could mean values that approach the limit of what the human physiology can handle, a value that is quite universal due to us all being of the same species. The body cannot adapt beyond the limits set by thermodynamics.
Tropical and extreme aren’t mutually exclusive. +30°C in Antarctica would be both tropical and extreme. Both are used where applicable. A temperature can also be extreme without being tropical. No matter what Trump thinks, he doesn’t have the power to redefine words.
- Comment on 🐸 time 1 month ago:
*Extreme WBT’s
A wet bulb thermometer measures wet bulb temperature (WBT), which exists always as long as there’s any humidity whatsoever in the air. It only gets bad when the WBT reaches an extreme value, as is the case for basically all environmental metrics. Saying that wet bulb temperature is lethal is like saying that temperature is lethal. Look out for temperature! I’m sorry for the rant so I’ll try to keep this short, but “wet bulb” by itself in this context is an inane shorthand that lacks all the significant words and muddles the meaning of those words that are in it. Scientists talk about Extreme WBT events, because that’s what they are.
- Comment on If only it was like that 1 year ago:
Sure, but the vast majority of people live in low lying areas and even then it doesn’t shift that drastically. You need to climb a mountain to see the difference when it comes to applications of daily life.
Although now that I think about it. The same criticism applies to pretty much every definition of temperature that is based on the behaviour of matter. This also applies to Kelvin. Temperature is a property of matter and every type of matter behaves differently.
- Comment on If only it was like that 1 year ago:
The thing to remember is that air is a great insulator. Air at 100°C isn’t nearly as bad as say water or metal at the same temperature against the skin. In fact, the air that comes in contact with the comparatively cold human skin will cool down rapidly, lessening the sensation of heat further.
- Comment on If only it was like that 1 year ago:
100°C is nice. And what’s a steaming session? Throwing water onto the rocks for steam every now and then is just standard operating procedure.
- Comment on If only it was like that 1 year ago:
Water is everywhere.
Cooking, weather, etc. You are also water.
- Comment on Ramadan 1 year ago:
No problem, everyone else is too.
- Comment on Ramadan 1 year ago:
Summer is the time of the year with endless days at high latitudes. That’s when the rule “don’t eat when the sun is up” becomes a problem.
- Comment on Me chilling with my homie 1 year ago:
Snufkin with a tail is cursed af