wet bulb temperature
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[edit]wet bulb temperature (countable and uncountable, plural wet bulb temperatures)
- (meteorology) The temperature read by a thermometer covered in water-soaked (water at ambient temperature) cloth over which air is passed.
- Synonym: WBT
- Coordinate term: dry bulb temperature
- 2020, Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future, Little, Brown Book Group, →ISBN:
- And a wet-bulb temperature of 35 will kill humans, even if unclothed and in the shade; the combination of heat and humidity prevents sweating from dissipating heat, and death by hyperthermia soon results.
- 2022 July 31, Jocelyn Timperley, “Why you need to worry about the ‘wet-bulb temperature’”, in The Guardian[1]:
- Wet-bulb temperature (WBT) combines dry air temperature (as you’d see on a thermometer) with humidity – in essence, it is a measure of heat-stress conditions on humans.
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