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2026The Wet Bulb Test
IS IT TOO HOT TO PHOTOGRAPH OUTSIDE TODAY?
If your region does not pass the wet-bulb test, it’s also too hot to exist inside without air conditioning. This is actually really a test of whether global climate change has rendered your locale dangerous to live in.
Ultimately this doesn’t belong on this site, but I made a thing and I want a place to put it.
Eager to see if this new code works!
This is based off Roland Stull’s 2011 wet bulb approximation equation, which looks like:
T_w = T \cdot \arctan\left[0.151977\sqrt{H + 8.313659}\right] + \arctan(T + H) - \arctan(H - 1.676331) + 0.00391838 \cdot H^{3/2} \cdot \arctan(0.023101 \cdot H) - 4.686035Where T is temperature in Celsius, RH is relative humidity in percent, and Tw is the wet bulb temperature in celsius. For more information on this equation, and why it’s important, see:
https://open.library.ubc.ca/media/stream/pdf/52383/1.0041967/1