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About 30 years ago I was doing ethernet standards meetings.
One meeting was in Honolulu, in August, temps stayed in the upper 80's all week and humidity hovered around 100%
coasters for ice water glasses were about an inch tall to catch the condensation runoff.
They emptied the coasters every hour. And that was in the 'dryer' air conditioned conference room.
Outside it never really rained all week. just every once in a while everything would get dripping wet as the moisture directly condensed onto any surface.
The next meeting was in Sand Key outside Tampa/St. Pete. It was during tropical storm josephine.
Equally oppressive humidity but with hard rain and wind.
It is amazing how humidity can affect one's comfort, the temperature numbers don't tell the whole story when your body sweat doesn't evaporate. I recall one guy telling me about the dry heat of Arizona, coming out of a swimming pool the water evaporated so fast off his skin he would shiver cold , despite the temps being near 100.
08-03-2024, 08:42 AM
