Why does humidity make temperature feel hot, but restaurants use misters to cool the patrons?

Question

I live in a town with a lot of humidity in summer. I perspire a lot, but restaurants around here have misters outdoors to “cool things down”. How does that work? How can adding more humidity make the heat more tolerable?

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Answer 1

Sweat is to help evaporate the heat off you. It gives heat a hug, and tries to fly off your body holding the heat, through evaporation.

But sweat is liquid. When you turn it in to air, its still kinda there.

So if the air already has a lot of “liquid” floating around (humidity), then there is no “space” for your heat to evaporate to.