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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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What you're saying is true, but only under specific circumstances. If you're conditioned for it and you take precautions, if this is your daily, it's doable. 109 with very low humidity, a nice breeze, in the shade, with dessert clothing, and a healthy supply of clean water, is ez if you are used to it and know what to do.
If you aren't used to it, or don't know what to do, or it's 40% humidity, or there is no shade and you're letting the sun hit your skin, etc, will easily kill you. This is France my man. Not wherever you're from. These temps, just hitting the normal vegetation will ensure the humidity is unbearable. Much less everything else.
Oh.. 40% is where it starts getting dangerous already? I assumed that's low humidity.
humidity in france is normally between 65% and 95%
Tbh with you I think it's lower than that when the temps are over 100, much less over 110. However, I don't know the exact number. I think it depends on other factors. In a situation where we're talking about regular folks having to do several specific things to survive, humidity easily breaks our little scenario.
I can tell you that I'm from the swamp. I can do up to around 103 with humidity over 70% but the cone for survival begins to narrow dramatically above 95. In the desert with humidity at 14%, I was completely fine at 110 even in the sun for periods of time. Like, I thought it was in the high 80s.
But, I can sweat gallons as long as I have water. That's what my body is conditioned to do. In the actual, ancient desert, without constant access to water, I'm dead. I assume most people can't just sweat two gallons a day, drink two gallons and eat some spicy food, and be ok tomorrow again. I also assume actual desert natives handle 110 different than me too, in a more desert sustainable way.
If we're talking about bare survival of a healthy or generationally conditioned person, able to do the right things, with access to everything they need, I think you're right 40% doesn't break things, but I assume none of those things apply in France.