At what temperature do you see your breath?

There isn't an exact temperature at which condensation occurs, as there are other factors in the environment that are involved (like humidity). However, you'll usually be able to see your breath when it gets to 45 degrees Fahrenheit and below.
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Can you see your breath in 60 degree weather?

It looks pretty similar to fog. There's not an exact temperature at which condensation will occur but usually when the temperature is below 45 degrees Fahrenheit, you can usually see your breath. This isn't always the case as other factors, like the amount of moisture in the air, pressure and temperature.
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Can you see your breath at 43 degrees?

If the air is cold (under 45 degrees Fahrenheit or so) and humid, it can't hold much more water, so the water vapor in your breath condenses, and you can see it. (It's similar to forming your own personal cloud!) But if the air is cold and dry, the moisture in your breath is quickly absorbed instead.
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How cold is too cold to breathe?

"It's hard to know what temperature is too cold. It's freezing outside and I usually say a good rule of thumb is less than 10 degrees Fahrenheit," Dr. Rachel Taliercio said who is Pulmonologist with the Cleveland Clinic.
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How cold does it have to be to freeze to death?

People can freeze to death at any temperature under 32 degrees F (0 degrees C). Most hypothermia deaths occur in temperatures from 50 and 30 degrees F. Most cold-weather deaths are from days of exposure or short-term exposure to cold temperatures in wet conditions.
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Can you see your breath at 55 degrees?

There isn't an exact temperature at which condensation occurs, as there are other factors in the environment that are involved (like humidity). However, you'll usually be able to see your breath when it gets to 45 degrees Fahrenheit and below.
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Why can I see my breath in my car?

Air from your exhaust is hot and hot air can hold more water, and when it hits the cold air outside of your car, it cools off and of the gaseous condenses into liquid water that you can see in a little cloud.
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Why can I see my breath when it's cold?

When moist air cools off, the water vapor in the air can change from a gas to a liquid, resulting in countless tiny droplets of water. That's what fog is! So when you exhale on a cold day (Figure 1), the water in your moist breath changes from a gas—water vapor—to liquid droplets, which form a fog.
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Can you see your breath in Antarctica?

When you see your breath, you're seeing condensed water. Is it possible to see other gases? In Antarctica, temperatures sometimes plummet below the freezing point of carbon dioxide, which is –78.5 C (-109.3 F) at 1 atmosphere of pressure (sea level).
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Why can I see my breath when its not cold outside?

The sight doesn't last long because the droplets evaporate quickly in the dry outdoor air, which is always in motion. Actually, the droplets are so small that you can't see them, but they're made visible by the light they reflect. That's why you can see your breath much better on a sunny day.
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Why can you see your breath on a cold morning does the air temperature have to be below freezing for this to occur?

Does the air temperature have to be below freezing for this to occur? You can see your breath on a cold morning because of the way evaporation fog is formed. You are blowing warm unsaturated air from your body into the cold unsaturated air, saturating the air and forming evaporation fog.
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Why we see our breath in winter but not in summer?

Why do I see my exhaled breath on a cold winter day? The air that you exhale is completely saturated with moisture and is at a higher temperature than the cold air outside. This makes the water vapor in the exhaled air lose its energy rapidly when it comes in contact with the cold air outside.
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Is 50C hot to touch?

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1st Degree Burn (minor burn): Non-metallic 85°C brief contact. Metal 60°C brief contact. Metal 50°C hold.
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Can humans survive in 50 degrees?

While human body cells start to die anywhere 46-60 degrees, temperatures of around 50 degrees is when most irreversible damage to cells starts. If the human body is unable to cool itself enough, it leads to heat cramps, heat exhaustion and even heatstroke or sunstroke.
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Can humans survive 60 degrees Celsius?

Most humans will suffer hyperthermia after 10 minutes in extremely humid, 140-degree-Fahrenheit (60-degrees-Celsius) heat. Death by cold is harder to delimit.
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What is cold breath called?

Some people call it fog breath, foggy breath, frost breath, frosty breath, or cold breath.
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Can it be too cold for clouds?

Clouds have no problem existing in the cold of winter, because they can just exist as ice crystals. In fact, even in the summer some of the clouds you see are composed of ice crystals.
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Why can I see my breath when it's warm?

The main reason for the breath vapor condensation is the difference in the relative humidity between the exhaled and surrounding air. The three main factors that play into this are temperature, relative humidity, and pressure.
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Has anyone touched a cloud?

Although it is slightly different with where it forms, fog is technically considered a cloud, just not airborne. Fog only forms on the ground and the feeling of fog is usually just damp. Unfortunately, it does not feel like cotton balls or cotton candy, but most people have technically touched a cloud before.
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What would happen if you ate a cloud?

While eating clouds isn't exactly harmful, it certainly isn't nutritious. The only side effects that you might notice are flatulence and misleading scale readings. However, one can't technically eat a cloud, as that would be like saying you're eating water, which is an impossible feat. Water is not eaten; it's drunk.
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Can you drown in a cloud?

In 2007, Wisnierska-Ciesleqicz, a Polish paraglider who was practicing for a paragliding contest in Australia, found herself accidentally sucked up into a cumulonimbus cloud. She reached a maximum altitude of just shy of 33,000 ft. (10,058 m) before reaching the top, rising at a rate of about 4,000 ft.
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Can see breath indoors?

But it's actually relative humidity, not just temperature, that determines whether you can see your breath. The water vapor in your breath condenses into a liquid when it hits dew point—the temperature at which the air is saturated and can't hold any more water in gas form.
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Can it snow below 0?

Snow forms when the atmospheric temperature is at or below freezing (0 degrees Celsius or 32 degrees Fahrenheit) and there is a minimum amount of moisture in the air. If the ground temperature is at or below freezing, the snow will reach the ground.
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