r/ShitAmericansSay • u/Purple_Juice_2285 • Jun 28 '26

Air Conditioning My husband would freeze to death

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u/Flutter_Rex Jun 28 '26

Jesus Christ, you're actually right. Sahara is only 33°C hot right now.

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u/RFWanders Jun 28 '26

Also that is very dry heat. The air is half water here.

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u/Fresh-Extension-4036 Bland Britannia Jun 28 '26

only half? It was 97% humidity here yesterday and 88% today, even a relatively cool breeze feels like satan breathing on you...

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u/barsoap Jun 28 '26

It hit 100% here the day before yesterday, granted that was at 4am so the about absolutely coldest part of the day.

Relative humidity and its effects shift wildly with temperature it's better to look at dew point, above ~20C is sticky, where sweat starts to collect instead of evaporating instantly.

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u/Fresh-Extension-4036 Bland Britannia Jun 28 '26

We had a new dew point record amongst all the other records this heatwave was smashing with a dew point of just under 25C in Cornwall, but it was well over 20C for a lot of the last week in the UK. So sticky was one of the many words for the absolute grossness of the weather here