Dangerous Temp/Humidity Combo Now

[OhNo-Really]

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Learn about Wet Bulb temp/conditions that can be life threatening here. A lot of areas are on track to create life threatening Wet Bulb conditions today.

Concise explanation here:
https://gizmodo.com/what-does-wet-bulb-temperature-mean-heatwave-1849191896

Find the Dew Point for your area here:
https://mydewpoint.com/#

Chart A & B at this link quickly helps determine safe activity levels.
https://arielschecklist.com/wbgt-chart/

Learn

Be safe

I am unable to import photos to DU 🤷🏻?♀️

[2naSalit]

1. Good info

I like the charts at the last link, I find those most helpful.

[OhNo-Really]

3. Thank you for posting. How do you post pics in DU?

I like the dew point zip code search link as well.

But agree, the charts rock. A friend of mine has children doing a DC swim meet from 6 AM to noon. My concern prompted posting a Wet Bulb warning post because they are unaware of WBGT..

I question the decision to keep families outdoors for 6 hours during a wet bulb event.

[2naSalit]

5. If you are not using a phone...

You can place your cursor over the image, right click, select copy image link (or location), paste into body text area. Check to see how it looks, click on the preview button next to the post my reply, scroll down to make corrections in interactive window, then post as usual.

[OhNo-Really]

6. Can I use an iPad? I quit computers when the 3rd Apple died.

[2naSalit]

8. Don't know...

Never had one.

[OhNo-Really]

9. I'll give it a try. Thank you.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

18. I think you tap and hold for a menu on an ipad. Not sure, though.

[Dysfunctional]

2. So, it is okay for me to work in my yard from midnight to 6 AM.

[OhNo-Really]

4. Did you check the Dew Point finder link?

Just enter zip code for your area. I think you can work outside depending on health issues but with time and hydration restrictions. See Chart B above.

Better to be safe.

[Dysfunctional]

21. Yes, I checked it. I am in the red after 6 AM then black then red until midnight.

I am healthy, but 79 years old. I am going to have to work some hours during the day. I am building a 180-foot wooden picket fence 4 feet high with a 5-foot picket gate. I have cut the 350 pickets to size. Now I have to attach 14 of them to each of 3 2"x4"x8' rails. Then dig the 2-foot-deep post holes, place the 4"x4"x6' posts, and attach the sections and gate.

[2naSalit]

7. Tips beyond drinking water...

Melons and cucumbers are essential in staying cool. Best to eat them alone like a treat but as long as you have an intake of a couple ounces each time, it is far easier to endure the heat and help your body.

On dangerously hot days, I learned this when I lived in the desert for a summer, I eat a few chunks of melon around nine am and again around two pm and maybe around six pm with no other food. I usually have some water before that.

Melons/cucumbers also have been used, in traditional medicine, to reduce fever and heat exhaustion as well as prevent heat exhaustion. I was looking for a reference for this info in my library, I know I read it somewhere long ago, but cannot find it now. I do know this works, been using this method of cooling for decades.

[OhNo-Really]

10. Thank you. It makes sense. I eat a cucumber a day

Desert dweller. As well as a couple of fruits every day. Really helps.

Cucumber has always been a favorite.

Good information

[2naSalit]

11. A survival tool.

Which desert do you dwell in?

[OhNo-Really]

13. High desert Wasatch/Rocky Mountains.

No humidity is wonderful. Drought not so much.

What desert did you live in?

[2naSalit]

15. Anza-Borrego, Salton Sea area...

Really hot, north of the Sonora Desert in Mexico.

I can't handle high heat anymore.

[niyad]

12. KNR and bookmarking. As hot as it has been here, still not as bad as many

places, and our humidity tends to be low ("But it's a dry heat!&quot .

Stay safe, everybody!

[OhNo-Really]

14. Same here. It's like living in front of a blow dryer

Windy most every evening as temps drop 20 degrees after sunset.

[niyad]

16. Front Range Rockies here.Lots of wind.

[CousinIT]

17. I use this (US only) from the NWS

https://digital.mdl.nws.noaa.gov/

Choose 'Wet Bulb Globe Temperature' from the 2nd dropdown menu on the right.

[Delphinus]

19. I have an app on my phone

that works very well. Meteo Calc: Weather Forecast.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

20. At the time the OP was posted I was in the green. Now moving into red.