I can feel this article. It reminds me of a couple times riding my motorcycle in the desert in the summer. The air HURTS. Like sitting in front of a blow dryer or an oven.
Fan Death is still not a thing, because that supposedly kills perfectly healthy young people in not-especially-hot environments. It's the fan itself that's somehow deadly.
But yeah, once the air gets above body temperature, air (even moving air) isn't going to cool you off. And even somewhat below body temperature, you can get hotter because you're generating heat faster than even moving air can remove it.
I spent several years rebuilding a property in the Mojave desert, never had AC.
If you don't sweat / get dehydrated, the fanned hot air is just a blast furnace and instead of feeling relief you can tell it's making things worse.
But if I were elderly and that somehow affected my ability to perspire correctly even if hydrated, I'd just use a misting bottle to spray myself or repeatedly enter a cold shower.
It's obviously more effective in lower humidity ambient conditions, but the body must have moisture at the surface to carry the heat away evaporating in the wind.
Original article: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...
I can feel this article. It reminds me of a couple times riding my motorcycle in the desert in the summer. The air HURTS. Like sitting in front of a blow dryer or an oven.
koreans knew after all what is up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_death
Fan Death was my first thought as well.
Fan Death is still not a thing, because that supposedly kills perfectly healthy young people in not-especially-hot environments. It's the fan itself that's somehow deadly.
But yeah, once the air gets above body temperature, air (even moving air) isn't going to cool you off. And even somewhat below body temperature, you can get hotter because you're generating heat faster than even moving air can remove it.
I spent several years rebuilding a property in the Mojave desert, never had AC.
If you don't sweat / get dehydrated, the fanned hot air is just a blast furnace and instead of feeling relief you can tell it's making things worse.
But if I were elderly and that somehow affected my ability to perspire correctly even if hydrated, I'd just use a misting bottle to spray myself or repeatedly enter a cold shower.
It's obviously more effective in lower humidity ambient conditions, but the body must have moisture at the surface to carry the heat away evaporating in the wind.
I grew up on the muggy East Coast. I knew that sweat was supposed to cool me off, but it just made me slimy.
Then I got out to the desert southwest, and behold! Sweat evaporated. Temperatures that were literally deadly back home were now quite tolerable.