Talk:Wet-bulb conditions

Merger discussion

This seems like a pretty obvious candidate for merging with wet-bulb temperature but meteorology is way out of my field, so instead of merging immediately I wanted to find out if there's an important distinction. Wintersweet (talk) 14:20, 7 July 2023 (UTC)

Support. There's even already a section on that page "Wet-bulb temperature and health". This seems like a clear target location.-Ich (talk) 14:56, 7 July 2023 (UTC)

@JPxG: Can you do this? I agree with Ich about the section to merge it with. Patallurgist (talk) 18:18, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

Absolutely. jp×g 20:13, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

This article is based on a misunderstanding of terminology

The author of the Vice article simply misunderstood the meaning of "wet bulb temperature", writing that "Wet bulb temperature is the point at which humidity and heat hit a point where evaporation due to sweat no longer works to cool a person." This is clearly not an accurate sentence if you compare it to the article on wet-bulb temperature. The other two sources use "wet-bulb temperature" in the standard way, as a measurement that can be high or low, and don't use the weird phrase "wet-bulb conditions" at all. A wet-bulb temperature exists everywhere on Earth. The two reliable sources are mis-cited to support claims they don't make (that "wet-bulb conditions" is a term meaning "wet-bulb temperature above 35° C"). This article should just be deleted; wet-bulb temperature already prominently features information about the human survivability limit for that measurement. Patallurgist (talk) 12:29, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

@Patallurgist: This is all true. The article is extremely short; "leading to the death of otherwise healthy persons" is a risibly false statement that borders on WP:FRINGE It seems to me like someone has misunderstood the terminology here. "Wet-bulb conditions" based on wet-bulb temperatures are about as much of a thing as "dusty conditions" based on dust levels or "loud conditions" based on noise pollution. None of these are separate articles, because none of them are separate concepts. I am going to merge this one as well. jp×g 20:13, 21 July 2023 (UTC)