Why Does Humidity Feel Gross?
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- Relative humidity, dew point, heat index... trying to figure out what to wear from all these buzzy weather words is enough to make you sweat! But fear not, today we're giving you a break down on how to use the local weather report to your advantage, and hopefully equip you with enough knowledge to avoid that annoying humidity fueled puddle of back sweat...
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At first, I thought the title of this video was 'Why Does Humanity Feel Gross?'
and i read your comment like "why does humidity feel gross"
Where it gets cool is when the air is absolutely saturated (that is, _at_ 100% humidity), and then the temperature _drops._ All the excess moisture becomes visible in a phenomenon we know as "fog."
This explains why we in Arizona are quick to say it's "A dry heat" Because yes it's 112 outside but the dew point is like 20 so your sweat evaporates instantly, making you feel cooler than it actually is. The sweat is actually doing it's job and why evaporative coolers work so well in the dry times.
Where it really sucks is when it's 103 and the dew point is 85. You feel like your breathing in soup while covered in a slick layer of sweat and just beads up and drips off you rather than evaporating. thankfully that only happens during the monsoon. and it's been 20 years since Arizona had a "real" monsoon.
Another overlooked factor is the relatively consistent variable winds you get in those areas. It being hot and humid is already one thing, but throw in ZERO WIND and it feels all the more miserable. Those of us in the Southeast (Florida excluded) are quite familiar. Lol. Florida is it's own continent in some regards. Lol.
As a Floridian, I knew most of this stuff since I was young & watching the local weather, however this was a great way to describe everything. Great informative video.
Fuck that hot ass humid ass fyucking place! 😂
A very clear presentation. Thank you!
Great explanation of a topic most people are uninformed about. Do weather stations still use Dry Bulb / Wet Bulb thermometers to read the dew point?
yeah i had trouble with this! it clears it up mostly
Dew point of 70 is really funny
Celsius, the superior temperature system that makes sense.
Finally a video that actually explains!
I always enjoy your videos! Could you do one about what happens, chemically, to foods when they get freezer burned, and why it makes them taste bad? :)
The short answer is that the food has been exposed to air inside the freezer, and this causes the food to oxidize. The oxidation is what makes it taste gross.
Very informative video
1:50 how sweat and humidity relate, water molecules absorb heat off skin and evaporate into the air, but can't if air is fully saturated so it stays stuck on you. 3:05 'how it feels' is subjective, but dewpoint is objective, it's the temp the air must cool to to reach 100% saturation.
4:25 what? below dew-points 60 regardless of the temperature, shows a temperature !?
hmm,i got some sense,but how rain alter the temperature and we feel good during rain but sometime after rain with no wind it feel so muggy
please repost this vid in may/june. Now-a-days, i'm worried about lake-effect snow, time to frost bite, and defrosting salts....
Awesome
Very useful 🥰🥰
"We can't all be so blessed as to live in San Diego." True, and thank God.
Doug Lee blessed !??? Roflmao, California is a shithole !
The weather is nice thou 😂
Been there done that, back in the day it was the place to be, now, no way!
If that was a real heat index example then they be lying down here in Texas lol.
👍👍👍👍much useful content..👍👍👍
I am living in a city where june avg temp is 48 and July - sep avg temp is 37 with high humidity so(Sargodha Pakistan) i am always sweating in that 3 months and inly AC gives me peace then.♨️
take frequent showers (2x times a day) that should make your skin dry so you are more prepare to humidity (your body probably would even appreciate humidity since your skin is dry after shower).
This should also help you become more productive.
So where is the best place to live in the United States (dew point wise)?
I do not see a 70 dew point on the dewpoint
I absolutely don't get it
Trivia quiz which state is more humid Tennessee or Michigan
Michigan because of the lake Michigan
today our weather humidity is 96%. it is good?????
THANK YOU! I had this doubt for so many years, I thought it would never be cleared up.
See, my hometown is muggy and hot for most of the year. Summers are hell, like stepping into a sauna, I sweat profusely all day and night if I'm not in an air conditioned room. It's almost sea level but right in the middle of the continent, so no sea breeze... little to no wind, which make things worse.
It's one of those situations where your skin sticks to the sheets making a mess and you can't have a comfortable night of sleep during summer... unless, like I said, you have AC.
5 years ago I moved to a city in the same state, but on the opposite side, that is almost 2km above sea level, it's way colder all year round, and there's only like a week at most where it gets really hot, and I could sweat during the day... most nights gets colder, so I got rid of the dictatorship of the air conditioner altogether. xD
It is a freedom I didn't experience during summers outside vacation trips and whatnot. Not having to be stuck inside a room with AC when I didn't want to sweat profusely and get all smelly. :P
But even so, it is known through weather and statistics that my current city is supposedly far more humid. Yet, this never connected for me. How can it be? My experience is almost the opposite. I was always sweatting buckets in my hometown while here I almost never break a sweat, despite that humidity percentage being higher on average here.
So this video makes perfect sense... it's overall relatively more humid, but not actually in a proportional sense. I could never find a proper answer for this. You guys finally finally solved it.
Now perhaps I'll also find my answer of a city in Japan that has a weather similar to where I currently live... another lifelong question I still didn't get an answer to. Dreams of moving there on day, kinda hard to happen, but you know.
So what was your hometown? Where did you move to, when you left your hometown? I live in Houston, TX and planning to move to Sacramento, CA.
@Larry Jones I'm afraid the frame of reference won't be useful there... I live in Brazil. xD South, to be more precise... my hometown is Foz do Iguacu, sea level and famous for it's falls, west end of the state, moved to the capital of the state in the east, Curitiba, 1km up the mountain. xD
Does anyone know a good app with all this extra info?
Love Me accuweather
MAKES POT SMOKING A BREEZE ,
Humidity does not feel gross. What are you talking about?
and here I am in san diego kackling at those suffering in the north east
Dori C congratulations.
Enjoying the lockdown, very high gas prices, little to no affordable housing, overcrowding everywhere, rode ragers, freeway traffic, and gang violence (?), yeah, the weather is fantastic year round, Mexican food is great no matter where you go, oh and the beaches are very nice, I know what I’m talking about!
What to wear?? Definitely NOT THAT!!!
So basically if it's humid it feels hotter
Or possibly colder..... Humidity still works both ways.
No hot air doesn't automatically mean high humidity
Her voice has more cracks than an old teapot 🤓
george there was no cracks in her voice, go back to complaining class
I was expelled from the class for complaining too much 🧲
@@simply1139 - that’s right , another female screwing up her voice on purpose 🙉
@@simply1139 - that’s right , another female screwing up her voice on purpose 🙉
@@simply1139 - that’s right , another female screwing up her voice on purpose 🙉
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please use SI units
I love humidity lol
Ewwwww
NO
100% humidity how come we don't drown?
because we are also water
100% humidity with a low temp usually means rain.
100% humidity with a low dew point means fog if the temp reaches the dew point.
Humidity is the water vapor content of air. It's a gas, not a liquid. We can only drown in a liquid.
Humidity such a sticky mess Your shirt sticks like glue
😡 Oh dear! Why must a scientific organisation persist with Fahrenheit? Stop pandering to the lazy or poorly educated and take a stand on this in favour of Celsius. How difficult could that be? Really!
Aw... poor butthurt kitty, too lazy to do a single calculation because wah. If y'all had invented the internet, or youtube, or published all the awesome science content that PBS is rocking then your opinion might be valid, or matter
Daniel Foland 😡 How condescending can someone be? Or how ignorant? I was dealing with a significant issue in science and mathematics, yet you can only make puerile remarks. Presumably you would prefer confusion and muddle over clarity and simplicity? Such arrogance from one so lacking in understanding is all too common, unfortunately!
Great complaint! Because there are not more meaningful things in life too worry about. You can expect smart Ass responses, considering using °F has absolutely nothing what so ever to do with people being lazy or uneducated. You sound like a prick while making those remarks.
And if you're SOO educated and NOT LAZY, maybe you could just learn the difference between the two. Never thought of it that way, I suppose!
This explained nothing.
The usage of farenheit confused me. They should have shown the conversion constantly.
Disgusting.
She looks like she is lecturing me on my white privilege this whole video.