Wet Bulb Temp Near Deadly 35 C
Posted: Fri 20 May 2016, 15:58:28
So I guess we're about to start seeing WBT's above the deadly 35 C that we've been talking about. When I first heard of this, I really though that this was a very remote and unlikely thing to see on this planet, certainly not for many decades to centuries.
But here we are on the threshold of seeing these deadly temps, probaably for the first time on the planet since before modern humans evolve, if not much much longer.
And it's only 2016.
One wonders and shudders at what the future, even the near-term future, has in store.
Wet Bulb Near 35 C — Heatwave Mass Casualties Strike India Amidst Never-Before-Seen High Temperatures
But here we are on the threshold of seeing these deadly temps, probaably for the first time on the planet since before modern humans evolve, if not much much longer.
And it's only 2016.
One wonders and shudders at what the future, even the near-term future, has in store.
Wet Bulb Near 35 C — Heatwave Mass Casualties Strike India Amidst Never-Before-Seen High Temperatures
Never-before-seen high temperatures and high humidity are resulting in thousands of heat injuries and hundreds of heat deaths across India. In some places, wet bulb readings appear to be approaching 35 C — a level of latent heat never endured by humans before fossil fuel burning forced global temperatures to rapidly warm. A reading widely-recognized as the limit of human physical endurance and one whose more frequent excession would commit the human race to enduring an increasing number of episodes of killing heat. A boundary that scientists like Dr. James Hansen warned would be exceeded if a human-forced warming of the world was not halted...
Surat weather services reported periods when temperatures spiked to 38-42 C and humidity — supplied by moisture flooding off the heating Arabian Sea — remained near 65 percent. These are wet bulb readings in the range of 32 to 34.4 C — a combination of heat and humidity that is very dangerous to anyone exposed for even brief periods.
... heat injuries across India now number in the tens of thousands with tragic heat deaths likely now numbering in the hundreds to thousands.
...global temperatures hitting in the range of 1.3 C above 1880s levels are absolutely adding intensity to the current heatwave ...