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Old 05-20-2008, 06:17 AM  
potter
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this is the best way i can describe it.

dry heat = shade is like 40% cooler than in the sun
humidity (wet heat) = same hot ass temperature everywhere. plus it's wet and sticky.

pretty much both types of heat rely on the sun. however in a dry heat, the sun is soley responsible for heating up what it's hitting and warming up objects, and the objects around them. with a hight humidity level, you have alot of moisture in the air. that moisture heats up and "floats" around. imagine if you had a small pool with a heat lamp on one side. empty, the area under the heat lamp would be really fuckin hot. however the area around it wouldn't be so bad, and the heat you'd receive would be emanating from the heat lamp and the areas it's hitting. now if the pool was filled with vapor or water. that water would be heated. and circulating throughout the entire pool. so everywhere in the pool would have a high temperature.

i dunno, kind of a fuckin retarded way to explain it. but it makes a little sense.
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