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Deal with it. Avg lows in Jul-Aug could be changed to 24C, but 'try to grow something here' sounds better.
I know it isn't supposed to be realistic but...how could the summers have that much rain and have such a large diurnal range? Looks like a fun place to live for a short time though.
The summers look similar Seneca, Oregon...minus the rainfall of course.
I've read that it's physically impossible to survive long-term in air that has dew point higher than your body temperature. When the dew point is higher than your body temperature you can't cool off by sweating at all, and since the air is warmer than you it will inevitably overheat you. The only way to cool off in that situation is to exchange heat with something colder than you such as cold water. Without access to anything cold to cool off you're guaranteed to soon or later overheat and die.
So congratulations, Patricius Maximus, you've created a climate that's not just nightmarish but also TRULY LETHAL TO ANYONE. You'd have to have a higher body temperature than humans do to be at least theoretically able to survive in it.
The highest dew point ever measured on Earth has been 35C in Dhahran. While it's horrible it's still a bit lower than human body temperature. If Earth's climate warms enough dewpoints exceeding human body temperature may become possible or even common: The Thermogeddon. It's interesting that this has most likely already happened in the past and the animals survived it - but maybe they couldn't live in some areas because of it.
Sure, you won't be able to sweat with a >37C dew point (not that it would make much of a difference - you wouldn't be able to sweat effectively at a DP of 30C anyway). But that would be the least of your problems - I read where if the dew point exceeds body temperature water will condense inside your lungs and thus you would drown after some period of time. Most of the time Tucker's Landing (my nightmare climate) has a dew point lower than body temperature, so drowning won't be a chronic problem. Your suffering is prolonged in that case, and that's part of what makes it so nightmarish. When the dew point exceeds 37C, running a high fever might save your life . When it comes down to it, though, the climate would be lethal to anyone without spacesuit-style protection.
Even more lethal would be Arnadus, my other nightmare climate. Dew points stay in the lethal range all the time there, so your comments would apply there.
I would also like to point out that the margin between survival and death can be wider than we think. If something (heat for instance) will kill you in an hour, or even half an hour, then it would be classified as "lethal" but it would be survivable if you get to a more hospitable environment within that time. Saunas work like this, as does survival in the vacuum of space. It's lethal, and it will kill you in short order, but it won't kill you immediately, and there lies the grey area between living and dying.
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Avg lows in Jul-Aug could be changed to 24C, but 'try to grow something here' sounds better.
. When it comes down to it, though, the climate would be lethal to anyone without spacesuit-style protection.
