What is the hottest temperature that a human can survive without dying? I’ve heard people are in certain parts of California and it 122 degrees Ferenheit. Is it physically possible for a human body to withstand that type of heat?
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Wet bulb temperature of ~95F(35C) is enough to kill humans. That comes from the humidity and it’s the result of the air being too filled with moisture for sweating to work to cool off our bodies (which evaporates and cools us off in the process, if the air is too saturated with moisture it wont evaporate and it won’t cool us off)
A lot of partial answers in here but people are missing the point. You can survive living in 115 with 0% humidity, people do that regularly in the southwest during the summer. But long exposure at just 95F with 70% humidity is enough to put you in serious danger.
There’s a calculator [here](https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/wet-bulb) that lets you know the wet bulb temperature given some baseline temperature and humidity level.
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