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**Mxsmanic** · July 2nd 08, 03:22 AM posted to rec.aviation.student,rec.aviation.piloting

writes:

So you haven't been here on the Canadian Prairies in winter, either.
Every winter someone will get a vehicle stuck on a country road and
try to walk a mile or two for help, in a 20-knot wind at -20C. They
don't make it.

The hot weather equivalent of -20° C is 60° C, and nobody makes it in that,
either. You can dress to protect yourself against -20° C, but nothing you
might wear can protect you against 60° C.

In very cold water, near freezing, an unprotected human
is unconscious in under 20 minutes and dead shortly after that, if he
doesn't drown first.

But that's just it: You can protect yourself in cold weather. In hot
weather, you can't.

I haven't heard of an unprotected human dying in a half-hour
on the desert at 45C.

Since you say that you're on the Canadian prairies, that doesn't surprise me.
More than fifteen thousand people in Europe died in 2003 in such temperatures.