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this post was submitted on 03 Sep 2024
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I think I always forget what wet bulb is exactly because these events are relatively rare, geographically isolated, and don't last long enough to be the specific cause of death. We get lots of heat death but not (35C100%H) heat death. The article says that we won't see sustained wet bulb temps this century.
Interesting takeaway:
"“What this new model shows is, when you take into account the limitations of human physiology, these upper wet-bulb temperature limits look as though they are much lower under certain types of conditions.”