Heat Exhaustion and Dehydration in the Arabian Desert
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was interested in this point and watched the available thermometers. In the shade of the wings where the passengers lay he estimated that the air temperature was about 125? or 130? from soon after sunrise to sunset. This, of course, was a temperature much above that of the human body. The air humidity was extremely low, since the air was scorched-dry in its passage over the burning desert sands, which surrounded the airship on all sides and continued without water, trees' shade or vegetation for some 50 miles. Air movement.?A continuous fair breeze? though hot and dry?made conditions seem less unpleasant.
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