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Ok. Now I want to experience this someday to figure out how I'll react.
Same. I want to say I *probably* have experienced it before but can't say with certainty as I wasn't keeping track of dewpoints. I've been to lowland areas of Costa Rica in July so there is a good chance that I have.
Anyway, very warm and humid nights can be very pleasant as long as you have an air conditioned room to escape to. Days can be oppressive, however.
This 31°C dew point is amazing. Anywhere in the world that would be a brutal day, but thinking it happened in Minnesota...
Btw this was the highest dew point ever recorded in the US right?
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I think areas around the Arab states have had higher dewpoints, near 100% with temps round 40C / 104F. Unimaginable!
As far as I know the highest dew point ever recorded was "only" 35°C, with "only" 69% humidity (temp was 42°C). Heat index was 78°C.
So apparently no dew point above human temperature has been recorded.
Anyway now I want to experience such high humidity levels for the weather interest. I had a 24°C dp about ten years ago but obviously don't really remember how it was. Plus it's nowhere near 30°C.
As far as I know the highest dew point ever recorded was "only" 35°C, with "only" 69% humidity (temp was 42°C). Heat index was 78°C.
So apparently no dew point above human temperature has been recorded.
Dew points that high have never been recorded, but if the dew point rose higher than an individual's body temperature, water would start condensing in that person's lungs, a phenomenon known as drowning. With my breathing problems I'd be dead by the time the dew point actually got that high, but any person is sure to encounter a big problem.
The record isn't too far off, that would be dramatic if it ever passed the 37°C threshold.
Btw does anyone know if there are warm-blooded animals with a significantly lower body temperature than humans? Maybe there have been reported cases of deaths by drowning due to excessive humidity?
That sounds horrendous, 21 C dew point is bad enough. If I experienced a dew point of 28 C I'd probably pass out from not being able to breathe
The dew point reached 21°C in Buxton last year. Everybody said it was wrong but it was representative of the local conditions in my back garden and probably not what would be recorded at a properly exposed weather station.
27C is pretty impressive. It is actually fairly common along the NW Western Australian coastline and in the Gulf of Carpenteria where SSTs reach 32-33C.
Highest dewpoint I've felt was about 25C in Melbourne, during summer 2010-11. This was during a thunderstorm, the temp was about the same, it felt quite steamy compared to what I'm used to.
Ok. Now I want to experience this someday to figure out how I'll react.
Same here. I typically love that moist tropical feel, and the bathroom-after-a-shower type humidity, but I have no experience of walking around in that type of weather outside. ( Though I wonder - I remember being in Savannah during a heatwave that topped 40C, followed by a thunderstorm that only cooled it off to about 29-31C, and the air seemed almost misty outside and certainly was incredible humid in feel. )
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