To my understanding we cool off via sweat by heating up the sweat and letting it evaporate off. That system should only function based on my understanding if the air is cooler than our skin. If that is the only system in play our body temp minimum should always be the temp of the outside air, making 110F weather fatal. What am I missing here?
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When water dissolves in air it requires an amount of energy, in the case of your sweat, the energy is taken from your body as heat. You don’t need the air to be cold for this system to work better but relative humidity has to be low, in this case the air will dissolve more water.
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