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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Some great answers below.
What’s going on with the misters is also how ‘swamp coolers’ work. These are the units that you fill with water and plug in. The water is drawn up into an absorbent mat and air is blown over it by a fan. Heat is removed from the warm air by the evaporating water and cool – but more humid – air comes out the front.
These are not air conditioners (which also control humidity), but there are a lot of misleading online adverts for devices that claim to have transformed or ‘destroyed’ the air conditioning marker and only use a tiny fraction of the power. These are almost all cons. Swamp coolers can work, but they suck in very humid conditions.
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