Heat and humidity

Heat is not a problem to deal with. Humidity is. If you don't know what humidity is, then you don't understand. If you don't know what humidity is, then you have less of a reason to defend your belief heat is hard to deal with.

You can avoid heat and/or cool your body down. When it is humid, humidity is everywhere and you can't escape it. You can probably use a de-humidifier, but if you are outside your house, I doubt you're going to take a de-humidifier with you (on public transport, to the toilet etc).

You can temporarily stop sweating from humidity, but then within a few minutes, you will start again. You can stop sweating from heat and not start again.

Living in 30-35 on a regular basis is fine. Living in 70-80% humidity, sometimes more, on a regular basis, is not fine. You disbelieve those figures? That is coming from you.

I have lived in 30-35 celsisus regularly to make such a statement. I have lived in 70-80% humidity, sometimes more, on a regular basis, to make such a statement. When within 15 minutes you go from not sweating to sweating, that is quite frankly unacceptable to me. When you have done both or at least experienced humidity, then you can talk to me.

I have experience of different climates: New Zealand, Canada, France, Cambodia, Hong Kong, Viet Nam, Beijing.

I would not say I have a solution to fight humidity, but the below may help before you go to sleep. I don't include a de-humidifier as I have never used one myself, but I have been present when one has been used (I was staying at someone's house in humidity-free New Zealand and it was really effective - it felt much drier afterwards).

- Turn on your aircon if you have one

- Have a cold shower

- Only wear underwear

- Drink a cold glass of water

- Turn off your aircon

- Go to sleep

It sounds contradictory to say this strategy also works with heat, but you can fight heat in the same way. It's a bit extreme if it is not objectively hot, you can subtract the use of the aircon, and then pick and choose between the rest, you don't have to use them all.

In hardcore humidity, you would want to try to move as little as possible while you sleep otherwise you'll just start sweating. Sounds unbelievable? It is not.

It is not unbelievable people sleeptalk, sleepdrive, sleepwalk, snore so loudly, don't snore, smile in bed, move so much when they sleep etc so you better damn well believe humidity is worse than heat.

- A.M.