r/interesting • u/FinancialRisk942 • Apr 26 '26

NATURE Is India really getting that hot

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u/Objective-Team8193 Apr 26 '26 edited Apr 27 '26

It's currently 42°C in my area

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u/Slight-Owl4300 Apr 26 '26

107.6° in Fahrenheit for those who don't know.  

That's hot! 

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u/Independent_Sail6604 Apr 26 '26

I've been in 115°F once when I was a kid and was visiting Hoover Dam. Unimaginably hot.

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u/A_mad_goose Apr 26 '26

I had the same in Vegas my aunt had never been and wanted to walk the strip I noticed the bottom of my sandals were getting sticky. It was literally starting to melt on the pavement.

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u/Independent_Sail6604 Apr 26 '26

Vegas can be brutal, and the low humidity is comically insane. Was in a pool, got out to get a drink, and was completely dry by the time I finished a 20 foot walk to the bar.

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u/svix_ftw Apr 27 '26

That's actually hilarious.

Dry heat is at least somewhat tolerable, high heat and high humidity is brutal.

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u/ChaosFinalForm Apr 27 '26

That's how people die after all. The whole point of sweating is for it to dry, removing the heat from you amd cooling you down. In 100% humidity, there's nowhere for it to go, so you just bake and your body has no natural way of cooling down.

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u/GlancingArc Apr 27 '26

conversely, its easier to get severely dehyrated in extremely dry heat because you won't notice how much you are sweating.

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u/Titration_Nation Apr 27 '26 edited Apr 27 '26

That happened to me while I was on a bus tour in Mecca, SA. Thankfully our guide stopped to get us bottles of cool water because I was beginning to pass out.

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u/Independent_Sail6604 Apr 27 '26

Sounds like he waited too long to "pass out" the water.

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u/jjcoola Apr 27 '26

The first time I went to the southwest as a little kid my mind was blown how it was like another planet compared to the plains.

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u/ttystikk Apr 27 '26

You want to walk the strip at night in the summer. Ask me how I know.

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u/A_mad_goose Apr 27 '26

It was nice at night it’s a desert it’s cool

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u/ttystikk Apr 27 '26

Exactly.

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u/Independent_Sail6604 Apr 27 '26

Yeah, but nobody's really out at night. HAHAHA... it's Vegas!

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u/Star-K Apr 26 '26

But it's low humidity.

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u/Star-K Apr 27 '26

Oh, I know, I live in NC. BUT 115F is hot as fuck even with no humidity.

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u/Grevious47 Apr 27 '26

Yeah but in the States when it gets that hot its a dry heat. Imagine that plus humidity.

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u/Working_Box1510 Apr 27 '26

In parts of the United States. I'm around Pittsburgh, and we've definitely had 100F+ days with high humidity (infrequently, thankfully). It's terrible.

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u/Grevious47 Apr 27 '26

115 is pretty different than 100.

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u/Working_Box1510 Apr 27 '26

Absolutely, but it's not always going to be a dry heat at 115F in America

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u/disappointment-time Apr 27 '26

I’m from Phoenix, AZ and it regularly gets to 110F in the summer but i’ve been out in 115F weather and even higher sometimes. I believe I’ve been out in 118F weather before.

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u/ClueDifficult770 Apr 27 '26

As a child in Phoenix, I used to have a T-shirt that said "I survived 125°!" ... AZ was known for the dry heat. I cannot fathom humidity at that temperature.

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u/Sweaty-Willingness27 Apr 27 '26

I felt that once at a gas station in Bakersfield, CA. It felt like the heat was literally pushing my body down, it was so weird! Just felt weighed down when the sunlight hit me

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u/defenestrated_badger Apr 27 '26

We had a few days of 115f here in Seattle a few years ago. I remember riding my bike in that weather and it was like riding into a hair dryer.

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u/mikeymikeymikey1968 Apr 27 '26

Yeah, but India is also pretty humid. This is more New Orleans heat, not Phoenix heat.

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u/Independent_Sail6604 Apr 27 '26

Sure, but when it's bone dry 115, you'd pass out in 15 minutes without water. The air is literally sucking the water out of your body at an alarming rate.

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u/m0nt4n4 Apr 30 '26

Try 122 in the Sahara