Inconsistency

[ladyofastolat]

I am Confused. I walked about 30 miles yesterday, and while my clothes were rather unpleasantly sodden throughout, it was bearable. Now I've just strolled for 10 minutes in the graveyard, without a rucksack and without two layers of socks on my feet, and I found it far worse. Yes, I'm a mile inland here, whereas yesterday I was on the coast and had

Comments

[rubygirl29]

I think it has something to do with the humidity and air pressure. I'm dying here in Cleveland. Temps running 95F and 80% humidity, which makes the "ambient" temperature a balmy 105F.

Ick.

[wellinghall]

I think there are three things happening here.

(1) Don't underestimate the importance of being near the coast. When you are within a few hundred yards of the sea, there is very often a breeze, which - however slight - will always help to cool you down.

(2) What matters is not the absolute external temperature, but how close it is to body temperature. So if it is (say) 31C, that's 6C lower than body temp; if it rises just three degrees to 34C, it's only 3C below body temp, so you only loose heat half as quickly. As the temperature rises to - or, on thankfully rare occasions, beyond - body heat, the number of people seriously affected rises dramatically.

(3) You're strange :-)