I've been wondering about this intense heat which seems so much hotter than the 33 or 34ºC it's supposed to be. Anyway, one of my colleagues mentioned something they have in Canada called Humidex, which is like the windchill factor, only for humidity. So when I got home from work I went right ahead and googled it. I came up with several interesting websites including the following http://www.physlink.com/Reference/Weather.cfm which has a calculator on it. What does this do? Well, you put in the temperature and the humidity and it tells you how hot it actually feels. To my surprise today's 33ºC and 71% humidity work out at a shocking 47ºC!! Explains a lot. No wonder I'm sweating so much.
27th July 2004.
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