I suppose if you have air conditioning this might not matter. But, what I found in the 1970s when most people didn't have air conditioning where I lived in Hilo Hawaii that people tended to use their intuitions more because if you tried to crank up your brain power (especially during summer time) you would often get a headache or heat stroke then.
So, unless you could bring your temperature down to 75 or lower, often trying to do a lot of intellectual processing at warmer humid temperatures then might land you in the hospital with heat prostration.
So, there is an entirely different way people function at high humidity and high heat in order to survive it. Some of the ways are that you start working at outdoor jobs like at about 2:30 to 3:00 am and work until maybe 10:00 AM or you might even start at around Midnight and work until 8:00 am when it is cooler.
All over the world (places like Death Valley or summer on the big island of Hawaii (where I lived in Hilo in 1974 are like this where if you are not used to summer in Paradise you can easily just pass out on the ground any moment when it is this humid while being hot.
Today is the hottest I have been this year in Santa Barbara. Though it's presently about 78 degrees in the house I just can't get myself to turn on the air conditioning and instead just opened many windows with screening on them instead.
However, down the street a big oak tree has blown down from the Santana winds off the deserts right now and there are limbs down and trees down right now all over Santa Barbara from this that we noticed. We hope we don't lose power from the Oak Tree because the tree also took down power lines and telephone lines when it fell.
So, while I'm sitting here I'm sort of sweating too and maybe that's a good thing because it's been a cold rainy and very snowy Year this year since December 2018 here in California which is extremely strange with nothing like it since maybe the 1990s 1995 and 1998 especially.
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