Our bodily sensations as regard heat and cold depend upon the amount of evaporation which is going on from the surface of the skin, As the air becomes more Saturated, evaporation decreases, $9 that when the temperature is high and the air at the same time heavily saturated, the body is unable 1 cope with it sufficiently be cooled through the evaporation of water as the air can hold. When this state of affairs exists, and who in Shanghai but has conerete collections of the state, we talk of the "sticky" heat. Physical disturbances may actually occur through Jack of sufficient evaporation on the skin's surface, as waste matter contained in perspiration is not dimi nated, which.in turn may affect the normal health condition of an individual.
In the same connection, the interesting point is brought out by meteorologists and scientists that in places, like Shanghai and. the Yangtze Valley, where the humidity is high the temperature record does not usually rise to the heights of 'a dry climate, but the discomfiture is greatly increased nevertheless. Again we have the remarks about the humidity and not the heat.
The "present rains which are ascribed to the precipitation caused hot monsoon atmosphere meet-with the cooler levels are qui fen for granted by those whd deal in intimate details of tne
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