Comments by "Gaza is not Amalek" (@Ass_of_Amalek) on "Tourists flock to Death Valley to feel hottest heat ever recorded | DW News" video.
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no need for quotation marks, it actually is because of low humidity. when air is hot but dry, it allows for efficient evaporation cooling through sweating. in 100% humidity on the other hand, sweat doesn't evaporate at all, so the body can only be cooled convectively, and only if the air is still cooler than body temperature. the air in coastal regions is almost always humid, and far inland it's almost always wet, as in general, wind blows from the oceans to the land driven by the evaporation of the oceans, arriving at land very moist and then losing the moisture over land through precipitation. there are exceptional places like the andes though, where the inland side of the mountain range has the very wet amazon, and squeezed between the mountains and the sea is the driest desert on earth, because the wind always blows from the atlantic over the continent and out to the pacific, and the air loses all its moisture as it rises over the andes. all high mountain ranges with one prevailing wind direction have a wet side in front and a dry side in the back. the US also has it with the rocky mountains, but less extreme since they're not that high, and there already is a lot of land between them and the atlantic ocean where the wind comes from.
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