Is It Muggy Out? Check The Dew Point!
Short Wave
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🗓️ 27 August 2021
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Shortwave from NPR. |
| 0:04.3 | Hey, Deuteronos, Maddie Safaya here, and today we've got producer Thomas Liu back with |
| 0:10.1 | us. |
| 0:11.1 | Hey, T-Lu. |
| 0:12.1 | Howdy, howdy. |
| 0:13.1 | So, what do you got for us today? |
| 0:14.1 | Well, Maddie, here's a fact. |
| 0:15.3 | I'm not a huge fan of the summer. |
| 0:17.3 | It's gross. |
| 0:18.3 | It's hot. |
| 0:19.3 | And I'm just like, why? |
| 0:21.1 | So naturally, let me tell you, I complained to no end about it. |
| 0:24.6 | And I know this. |
| 0:25.6 | And pro-summer people are always like, stop your wrapping. |
| 0:29.6 | It's not the heat. |
| 0:30.6 | It's the humidity. |
| 0:31.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:32.6 | This is constant talk in DC, constant talk. |
| 0:34.5 | I may be have even used that saying once or twice in my lifetime. |
| 0:37.7 | Go on. |
| 0:38.7 | Here's the thing. |
| 0:39.7 | The way we think about relative humidity, the percentage we see on the weather forecast, |
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