@grumpybozo @ryanprior @skyfaller @ai6yr Thank you for such a great way to explain this. I wonder if they should express it in a different way than degrees. Perhaps percentage? E.g., Today's wet bulb score is 98% [of being deadly for even young, healthy people]
@sbourne @grumpybozo @skyfaller @ai6yr wet bulb temperature doesn't strike me as a useful thing to report, now that I understand it a little better. It describes a specific measure that's useful in context, but seems to require a lot of interpretation before you can use it to make decisions about how to plan your day.
@sbourne @ryanprior @skyfaller @ai6yr It’s the base value from which all other measures of heat+humidity are derived. It’s used to calculate relative humidity, dew point, “Heat Index,” and the badly-named “wet bulb globe temperature,” each of which tries to express… something.
It is a non-obvious metric. It’s a bit difficult to express as a percentage because with different zero points for Celsius and Fahrenheit, the ratio of current temp to WBT would vary between the two & hard to convert.
@grumpybozo @ryanprior @skyfaller @ai6yr It's a hard communications problem. It's complicated, but important when it reaches life and death levels. I hope somebody more clever than I can figure out out!