Ever heard of wet-bulb index?

Thing? Anyways. When the weather channel says 'feels like' with 100% humidity you're body sweat can't cool down your skin by evaporating. So add high temperatures, and your body temp will cook and can kill you. No wonder I hate the thought of rainforests. If your sweat can't cool down your skin by evaporating. It feels like your suffocating cause your skin is. (This brought on from it being 70 degrees fahrenheit in ohio at night, at the end of December)

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JoyfulSilence · 51-55, M

I think the term comes from the "wet bulb temperature", which literally comes from a "wet bulb."

The normal temperature is just sticking a dry thermometer in air, and letting it equilibrate and then taking the reading. I think that is called the "dry bulb temperature".

Then, I think you dip the bulb in water until it is coated, and let the water evaporate. This lowers the temperature of the bulb and then you take a new reading right when it is dry. I think this is called the "wet bulb" temperature.

I guess they then convert it into a heat index using a chart. I do not know that formula.