I hope US news media learns to take these heat waves as the serious disasters they are, not merely as inconveniences. In terns of excess deaths, say, what’s happening in the South right now is likely to do as much harm as a once-in-a-generation hurricane, tornado, or earthquake.
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Also, there’s reason to believe that current standard heat index numbers are actually severe underestimates at the high end of the range: https://romps.berkeley.edu/papers/pubdata/2022/heatwave/22heatwave.pdf
