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At least 40 people drown in France as 43C heatwave sweeps across country
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 23 Jun 2026
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Lol,, 40°C is insanely hot for humans. Everything over 30 is super hot, over 35 is dangerous.
Add humidity to that and expect people to die from the heat alone.
It really depends on what you're acclimated to. I lived on a farm throughout high school, so I got to build fence lines and pock crops all day long in triple digits (F) with over 90% humidity (my region is technically a rainforest).
But I was used to the weather; I grew up in it. I'm definitely not going to criticize anyone who hasn't had to deal with it on a regular basis, especially when no one has AC.
You're simply wrong about your own experience there.
At 90% humidity and 100 F the heat index is 176 F which is astronomical.
A heat index at 125 F is lethal to any human being eventually..at 176 F you're dead in 15 minutes.
Either the temperature was lower, the humidity was lower.
Lots of people take the temperature high point they see and the humidity high point they see on the weather forecast and assume they happen at the same time. That's generally not the case.
So people say "it was 100 degrees and 90% humidity",, when actually it was only 50% humidity at the hottest part of the day and something like 80 degrees when humidity was 90% in the evening.
Everyone's guilty of this. They've experienced a really hot and humid day, they then tell the story with the 2 highest numbers because it felt really hot.
It's an accidental embellishment and ultimately leads some people to die of heat stroke as "they've worked through worse" in their own mind when the warnings come in with numbers they think they've experienced before but haven't in reality.
Above 100F is where it's considered critical, where the body can no longer dissipate heat through the environment.
Won't this be related to the humidity/wet bulb temp?
That, but ultimately it's about time. Like how 100C water gives you a burn instantly, but so does 40C, if you sit in it for 8 hours.
If your body can't cool itself, you will eventually overheat and die. And the limit for a certain death (eventually) is 35C (95F) wet bulb - at that point even a perfectly healthy person at rest produces enough heat to bring their core temp to over 43C and die.
Acclimation plays a huge role in it.
Bro I worked farms in Nebraska in the summer, you’re mistaking health and youth for acclimation
Not at that point.