• Asafum
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    It gets to be 90°F with a dew point of ~75°F where I am.

    You can swim in the air with those numbers and absolutely suffer heat stroke. Fans just circulate the humid as fuck hot air. :(

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      And that’s a bit of a break here. We hit 100+F regularly over the summer, and its 82 F and 85% humidity in the mornings. No AC is bad.

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        Guys, I’ve literally lived on a tropic. Not talking about specific places where heat in times of climate change is a real health issue.

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          I guess I got triggered by “northerners” lol I’m from long Island NY and it gets absolutely brutal in the summer. The NE gets surprisingly gross in the summer months

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            Sorry for the confusion. I used it loosely as in “people from the north hemisphere well above the tropic”, even though, the A/C comment is in reference to the USA in general.

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              the A/C comment is in reference to the USA in general.

              But what we are all saying is that it doesn’t apply to the USA in general, it’s different in different parts.

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      it’s also worth noting the secondary purpose of air conditioning is to remove humidity, as it’s bad for the house.

      High humidity is not a good thing to have. Especially for more northern climates where the summers are brutal and the winters are also brutal.