Adding more water to an already hot and humid situation risks a Wet Bulb.
If the water coming out of your cold tap is cool (which it should be, since pipes are typically underground), then I think maybe it would still work because you could refresh the t-shirt with colder water occasionally. It’s just less than ideal compared to doing it in a dry climate.
Wet T-shirt and sitting in front of a fan.
We naturally cool our bodies by sweating.
You can sort of hack that process by getting a t-shirt wet, putting it on, and allowing the moving air to help speed up the evaporation process.
WARNING: NOT FOR USE IN HIGH HUMIDTY.
Adding more water to an already hot and humid situation risks a Wet Bulb.
And suddenly all those wet t-shirt contest promoters out there became heroes instead of villians.
If the water coming out of your cold tap is cool (which it should be, since pipes are typically underground), then I think maybe it would still work because you could refresh the t-shirt with colder water occasionally. It’s just less than ideal compared to doing it in a dry climate.
It would cool you a little as the cold water absorbs heat, but you’d have to wring and repeat as soon as it heats up, which might end up being often
Aren’t you going to catch a cold?
No. A cold is a virus, you won’t catch one by cooling yourself.
That’s exactly what a virus that was trying to trick me would say…
C’mon Greg, don’t you wanna be cool 😈
But, if the virus is already present in your system, cool and wet conditions can lower the effectiveness of your immune system. Tmyk
better when don’t wear a shirt, spray yourself with water and sit it from of the fan; the convection feels fantastic on your skin.