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goerz | 2 years ago

Right, but we're talking about being extremely close to the point where these will fail due to unsurvivable wet bulb temperatures

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frumper|2 years ago

Your comment is 5 parents deep and not one mentions wet bulb until you just now. The wet bulb temp of Death Valley is in the 70s or 80s. Hardly unsurvivable wet bulb temperatures.

falcolas|2 years ago

Death Valley is also a bit of an outlier in it's dryness. Of course, that's what also makes it a desert.

It wouldn't take much humidity to turn those temperatures into wet-bulb of 100+ - fatal to humans. Expanding the area of this level of heat a couple of hundred miles in any direction would probably be enough.