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humid heat

n. the heat capacity (specific heat) of humid air, expressed per unit mass of dry air in the mixture. The engineering symbol is cs.

Usage examples of "humid heat".

Don't they alone bring the silks which make every summer's humid heat bearable, and every winter's cold bearable, and every spring and fall a joy?

During the days, the intense, humid heat liquefied the poppy resin, causing it to ooze here and there through the burlap casings, filling Zilin's small world with the sickly sweet stench.

When they left the blue water of the sea and entered the brown water of the Mekong they had sailed into a kind of heavy humid heat Moon had never known.

The coolness of the water on my clothes began to lose out to humid heat once more as I checked Baby-G.

His clothes were casual, what a moderately comfortable man might wear in this humid heat and heavy atmosphere, dark and anonymous, loose and baggy.

Near midday on the fourth day, the rain lessened from a steady downpour to a muggy drizzle mixed with heavy fog and a sticky, humid heat that left everyone thoroughly disgruntled and uncomfortable.

Even the exertion and stress of that descent did not settle on him as suddenly as a blanket of humid heat did now.

Near the back of the nest, the lowest dangling two meters off the floor-two chains and a rope, hanging just beneath the air shaft that blew humid heat across the nesting wall.