Dangerous Temp/Humidity Combo Now

I like the charts at the last link, I find those most helpful.

I like the dew point zip code search link as well.

But agree, the charts rock. A friend of mine has children doing a DC swim meet from 6 AM to noon. My concern prompted posting a Wet Bulb warning post because they are unaware of WBGT..

I question the decision to keep families outdoors for 6 hours during a wet bulb event.

You can place your cursor over the image, right click, select copy image link (or location), paste into body text area. Check to see how it looks, click on the preview button next to the post my reply, scroll down to make corrections in interactive window, then post as usual.

Never had one.

Just enter zip code for your area. I think you can work outside depending on health issues but with time and hydration restrictions. See Chart B above.

Better to be safe.

I am healthy, but 79 years old. I am going to have to work some hours during the day. I am building a 180-foot wooden picket fence 4 feet high with a 5-foot picket gate. I have cut the 350 pickets to size. Now I have to attach 14 of them to each of 3 2"x4"x8' rails. Then dig the 2-foot-deep post holes, place the 4"x4"x6' posts, and attach the sections and gate.

Melons and cucumbers are essential in staying cool. Best to eat them alone like a treat but as long as you have an intake of a couple ounces each time, it is far easier to endure the heat and help your body.

On dangerously hot days, I learned this when I lived in the desert for a summer, I eat a few chunks of melon around nine am and again around two pm and maybe around six pm with no other food. I usually have some water before that.

Melons/cucumbers also have been used, in traditional medicine, to reduce fever and heat exhaustion as well as prevent heat exhaustion. I was looking for a reference for this info in my library, I know I read it somewhere long ago, but cannot find it now. I do know this works, been using this method of cooling for decades.

Desert dweller. As well as a couple of fruits every day. Really helps.

Cucumber has always been a favorite.

Good information

Which desert do you dwell in?

No humidity is wonderful. Drought not so much.

What desert did you live in?

Really hot, north of the Sonora Desert in Mexico.

I can't handle high heat anymore.

places, and our humidity tends to be low ("But it's a dry heat!".

Stay safe, everybody!

Windy most every evening as temps drop 20 degrees after sunset.

https://digital.mdl.nws.noaa.gov/

Choose 'Wet Bulb Globe Temperature' from the 2nd dropdown menu on the right.

that works very well. Meteo Calc: Weather Forecast.