Sorry to link to Twitter but remember that thread I did recently-ish on #MaskHacking to make my respirator more comfortable through added #humidity?
It turns out that humid air is a lot better at reducing the amount of aerosol virus that gets into your lungs. And that masking alone can actually increase that humidity even if the room you are presently in is not humid enough.
The #humidity was crazily low in the late afternoon in Lincoln. The temperature was 63° F with a dewpoint of -5° for a relative humidity of 6%.
The dry air has allowed the temperature to drop quickly after sunset. #weather#LNKwx
"SINGAPORE: By the end of the century, Singapore could experience more weather extremes under a worst-case climate change scenario, with more frequent very hot days, more extreme daily rainfall as well as longer and more frequent dry spells."
2/2: Three things are on my mind right now. 1. how fast #linux is evolving. 🥳🤯 2. how bad the #power quality seems to be here in Thailand. 3. that I have to figure out how to deal with the #challenge (s) around #electricity. Have to look up "extreme voltage" for the #furman next. The #ups also keeps beeping seemingly at random, which I need to look up in the manual as well. 🤔 Slightly underwhelming, but I guess I need to do my homework on Thailand and electricity first. 🙃
@macberg I think I figured out humidity by now. Bought a #sensibo air to make the #airconditioning "smart". Now it turns on in dry mode when #humidity goes above 80% and runs until it's back down to 60%. It's also set to run a maximum of 15 minutes in a row. So far it's kept the room "dry" and the AC run time low. As for #electricity, I'm afraid we're going to have to go with #solar in the long run, since we're experiencing power outages in addition to almost always being underpowered. 🤔
The third coat of #primer is applied to my studio desk (in #restoration) despite #humidity levels between 88% and 98%. The hardest part is the sanding in between, because the paint does not dry completely even after days in these conditions. #rain#tropics
God why are humidifiers such AWFUL pieces of SHIT?
Got two giant ones, one of them had the lubricant washed away or something after just a year or two of use and is very loud, and the other is hardly quiet.
They're both HUGE , individually advertised to cover more than my whole house, but just barely keep me at 40%
1 /2 Where we live now there is a lot of sand, high #humidity, extreme #heat and a lot of rain too. Never before have I seen my #mountainbike "attacked" by rust, dirt, brittle plastics and never before have I had to maintain it so much. 😅️
The Midwest US could be a hotspot for deadly ‘moist heat stress’ as global temperatures climb
Large parts of the world, including China and the Midwest US, are on track to become too hot for humans to handle as accelerating global temperatures expose billions to heat and humidity so extreme their bodies will no longer be able to cope, according to a new study.
By Rachel Ramirez, CNN
Published Oct 9, 2023
"At 3 degrees — which the study authors say is the most likely level of warming by 2100 if no action is taken — there is a sharp increase in people exposed to life-threatening heat and humidity. 'It’s really incredibly disturbing,' Huber told CNN.
"Humid #heatwaves will affect swaths of the world not used to such #extreme conditions.
"The #Midwest US will become a 'moist heat stress hotspot' at 3 degrees of warming, according to the report. The Midwest is susceptible to this kind of heat stress in part because its climate walks the line between dry and humid, Huber explained, allowing the region’s heat to push into the danger zone on very humid days.
"Another factor that makes the region vulnerable is its agriculture and the phenomenon called 'corn sweat,' Huber said.
"'The plants that we eat are sweating through evapotranspiration, and that may be adding to the humidity above what would normally be there,' he said.
"So-called 'hot hours' — times where heat and #humidity are especially life-threatening — will be concentrated in the #Missouri and #MississippiRiver valleys but also elsewhere in US including the #GulfOfMexico coast and the #AtlanticSeaboard according to the study.
"At 4 degrees of warming, the study’s worst-case scenario, researchers found that 1.5 billion people around the world would face a month of moist heat stress each year, and roughly 2.7 billion people will experience at least a week of these extreme conditions.
"Parts of #Yemen could experience heat and humidity that exceeds human tolerance for more than 300 days a year, making it virtually uninhabitable."
In the end its the #humidity that might kill us...
the #climatecrisis for humanity has many elements, but the rise of humid heat may in the end be the most invasive problem... with very clear implications for #energy use to try and cool us down - a(nother) vicious cycle in the challenge of #climatechange?