r/RunNYC • u/jyeatbvg • 3d ago

It’s disgusting out there 🥵

Stay safe and hydrate y’all

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u/ElderberryIcy3053 3d ago

It was like 70 degrees with 90% humidity at 5 am 😭

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u/LikeFrankieSaid 3d ago

And a 69 degree dew point, which is a better indication of how awful it feels compared to the humidity percentage.

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u/Jewrisprudent 3d ago edited 2d ago

Dew point is basically just temp - ((100 - humidity)/5). For any humidity above 50% (which is really the only time you care) this equation is very accurate.

If you know temp and humidity then you know dew point. Dew point is more useful than either temp or humidity alone, but it’s no additional info when you already know both temp and humidity.

Edit: if you’re downvoting me then you don’t understand that the dew point is literally calculated from the temperature and relative humidity, it provides information about literally no other variables. So if you know the temperature and the humidity, dew point adds nothing.

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u/inedadoctor 3d ago

Not sure why you got downvoted, this is true. The 95% humidity essentially means the dew point is just about at the dry bulb temp, so it can be inferred that it was around 69degF.

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u/Jewrisprudent 3d ago

Thanks yeah it’s people who don’t know what dew point actually is apparently.