If the boiling point of water is 212 F, will water boil at 197 F with a heat index of 212 F? I've always felt that all this heat index stuff is a bunch of hooey. If water will boil on the index number I'll change my mind.
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If the boiling point of water is 212 F, will water boil at 197 F with a heat index of 212 F? I've always felt that all this heat index stuff is a bunch of hooey. If water will boil on the index number I'll change my mind.
Very good question! I believe in conspiracies. So the heat index probably came about to help some politician advance his career. Help explain global warming or something. After all.......it can't be proven.....but also it can not be dis-proven. Hahahahahahaha Im only being half-way serious here.....but dang wouldnt put it past em!
Thinking about such makes my head hurt. Just blame it on global warming.
Good question for Al Gore!
No it won't boil unless the water is at 212 degrees. Nor will it freeze when the wind chill is below 32 degrees but the air temp is above. I only know this because I looked it up once.
<engage teacher mode> Wind chill and heat index are measures of how cold or hot the environment feels to the human body. These terms are only relative to people and have no effect whatsoever on the chemical or physical properties of inanimate objects or materials. <disengage teacher mode>
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Originally Posted by Iwannafish
I understand what you are saying. But......isn't "How it feels to the human body" subjective? Im a fat guy, and im sure the temperature feels ALOT higher to me than it would a skinny person. So....my question is......Since all humans feel things differently, Which human is the heat index or wind chill based off of? So this THEORY is promoted as fact every day. Im not wanting to start an arguement. Im am wanting you to educate me. I want to believe in it...but I cant until there is a reasonable "control group" as is necessary in all scientific experiments.
Don't know about science Lowe, but if you want a control group about heat index then ask an out stater who lives in a less humid climate what he thinks about our summers in the deep south.. lol. I work construction and you can always tell the ones who aren't from here. They will be the ones who look as if they are gonna drop any minute from heat exhaustion. I ran into a group of guys from Arizona once who choose to work 7 six hours days as opposed to 5 eight hour days. It's all about the humidity.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_index
What difference does it make....if your hot your hot....if your cold your cold
Im fat....Im always hot!!!! Hahahaha
In the animal world they eat things during the summer to keep the skinny then eat things in the fall and winter to make them fat. Guess they figured it out long ago.
Sounds like a Jerry Lee songQuote:
Originally Posted by "G"
speck did it
Guess my biggest complaint is when I catch a weather report and the map shows heat index temps. I want to know what the real temperature is! Growing up in the south we were taught that relative humidity is what made the heat so muggy and sweaty as compared to the dry heat of western climates. It doesn't feel As hot to me as it does to my friends visiting from Wisconsin. Heat index came into use in the late 70's and has now exploded into every weather cast I believe as a result of the warmers wanting to dramatize the heat. Still won't boil water or freeze it!
I know before I had my gastric bypass surgery I stayed hot but now I can tolerate the heat a lot better.Quote:
Originally Posted by LowePro
Wind chill will freeze water don't see why heat index wont boil it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Boatbottom
AAH, but that's the question of the thread. Mac Daddy said "No it won't boil unless the water is at 212 degrees. Nor will it freeze when the wind chill is below 32 degrees but the air temp is above. I only know this because I looked it up once." Which is it?Quote:
Originally Posted by Rees Guide
I disagree, heat is heat, cold is cold. The air temp can be just above 32 and you fall in the water and get out to a 20mph winds and tell me whether or not stuff don't start freezing!!!!!!!!!
Personally,,,,, I add salt before boiling water because it boils faster.... so maybe if you add salt to water first, then test its boiling point.....
thank goodness nobody mentioned making water colder by adding salt to the cooler. OH wait... Sorry. at atmospheric pressure it is 212 F and 32 F no matter how humid it is or how hard the wind is blowing. But the wind will cause temps to drop quicker or rise quicker.. Think ice on bridge or convection oven.
Nope.Quote:
Originally Posted by wilbur
When you're Hot you're Hot
When you're Not you're Not.
No cold involved. [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]
Think that was Jerry Reed instead of Jerry Lee. Lol
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