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OttoVonNoob to Memes@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago

What's a wet bulb?

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What's a wet bulb?

OttoVonNoob to Memes@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago
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  • danc4498@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    It only appears bad when you look at the data. Just don’t look!

    • dubyakay@lemmy.ml
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      That’s not scary.

      This one is scary:

      https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/2000%2B_year_global_temperature_including_Medieval_Warm_Period_and_Little_Ice_Age_-_Ed_Hawkins.svg/1920px-2000%2B_year_global_temperature_including_Medieval_Warm_Period_and_Little_Ice_Age_-_Ed_Hawkins.svg.png

    • Cheems@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      Ah yes the Florida method.

    • teuast@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      Who are you gonna believe?? Me, or every climatologist in the world??

    • Destide@feddit.uk
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      2 years ago

      Sucks to be from Tennessee they’re exempt from Paul Ankas guarantee

  • arefx@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    These memes are supposed to be funny (⁠༎ຶ⁠ ⁠෴⁠ ⁠༎ຶ⁠)

    • Woland@lemm.ee
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      Better laugh than cry, I guess

  • CMGX78@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Anyone want to go halfsies on some property near the arctic circle?

    • Woland@lemm.ee
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      2 years ago

      I hear Greenland is quite balmy this time of the year

    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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      Seriously, at what point is the Antarctic going to be the most pleasant place on Earth to live?

  • nothacking@discuss.tchncs.de
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    Global warming means thing will be getting worse. Of course it might be nice and cool for a bit, but slowly, these will get more common and much worse. For context, average global temperatures during an ice age are around 4° C colder than 1961-1997 average, and we are quicly going to supass 1° above.

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    I’ve seen the term misused a lot recently, so I’ll state that a wet-bulb is a part of a measurement instrument. Wet-bulb temperature is a measured quantity (along with dry-bulb temperature, pressure etc.) and an Extreme wet-bulb temperature event is what actually kills people.

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      Used for humidity measuring instruments primarily, like a psychrometer.

      Basically using a wick or wet material and forcing air over the sensor will evaporate the water and lower the temperature reading. Compared to a dry thermometer you can work out humidity.

      A very high wet bulb temperature would mean very high humidity, which is dangerous for people as sweating is less effective.

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        Correct for the most part. You can still have very high relative humidity with a low WBT if the dry-bulb temperature is equally low.

        When the WBT gets above 35°C, it’s not only dangerous, but positively lethal when sustained for even the healthiest person as sweating (or any other form of evaporative cooling for that matter) can no longer keep the body at a suitable temperature.

        WBT is also not to be confused with wet-bulb globe temperature (WBGT), which is an index for heat stress that also takes into account the effect of sunshine among other things. It’s much more situational and best suited to judge the heat stress of athletic outdoor activity in sunshine.

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    Do wet balls count as a measurement of how much hotter it is than the day before?

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      well idk about you but my balls were really wet over the weekend and not because i spent it with my girlfriend

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        My balls got really wet on the weekend with her too. That’s called squirting.

        What we are discussing here is climate change, and how it affects us.

        Just kidding, about the above. I used an umbrella. Didn’t get wet at all.

        /S Will I get banned for this? I don’t even know the rules. Just trying to have a laugh.

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    We got our first heat advisory of the year today. We spent the last 4th of July with a broken AC. This one was much more pleasant.

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      Well my central heating is on along with the fire, good times.

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    Classic funny because it’s not funny… :(

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    The good news is that you can replace meat with BEANS

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      Unexpected actual solution, if we all replaced meat with all types of beans.

  • Casmael@geddit.social
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    I’m in this meme and I don’t like it :(

  • YAMAPIKARIYA@lemmyfi.com
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    (⁠╥⁠﹏⁠╥⁠)

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    Good luck to the firey’s this year

  • sil3ntki11@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Man I really need to watch Simpsons…

  • Panamanap@feddit.de
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    I’m gonna save the picture, pretty sure I will need it in the future…

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    Hottest day? It was 13C and pouring rain here yesterday.

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