I'm in NY and when it's ~90f degrees out with high humidity, it's an unescapable heat unless you have an A/C.
I'm in ok shape I guess. I walk 3-5 miles a day in all types of weather ranging from about 10f to 100f degrees but when high temps hit with high humidity my skin immediately glazes over and I know to take it easy. My arms will be dripping wet in less than a minute just standing outside doing nothing with a ~60 BPM heart rate.
On the other hand, if it’s dry the human body can sweat away prodigious amounts of heat
It’s bad because people (usually already frail) get heatstroke/overheated and die.
This always makes these sort of dire predictions sound exaggerated to me. There’s always a population of (usually older) people who are nearing the end and we seem irrationally unwilling to accept “old age” as a cause of death. Any slight disturbance is then blamed and we get dramatic headlines about “hundreds die in 35C heatwave.”
Or as the article puts it, extreme heat killed 108 people last year.
A few years ago, in France, over 50,000 people died due to heat stroke and other extreme heat factors.
In the US, many places have this thing called "air conditioning". In France, and much of continental Europe, that's pretty rare.
Heck, in many of the poorer places over there, they don't even have fans.
humidity. (at least in the midwest).
Someone in the biz was telling me that the reason is that many 'news' orgs would rather have an article about the weather than about a lot of other subjects, so they've steadily increased the number of weather related coverage.
It takes the same amount of energy to melt 1L of ice as it takes to heat 1L of water up to 80 degree celsius. This means currently we have massive amounts of energy beeing absorbed by the melting ice. After that, we will see. Breakdown of the Jetstream? Gulf stream? who knows.
I'd always heard that news organisations love weather stories because they're cheap to produce and readers want to read them and find them useful. There's a reason the morning news has a weather update every fifteen minutes, after all.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/disable-javas...
Use Firefox's reader mode. You might need to refresh once or twice to get the full NYT article in reader mode.
For a "hacker," one just disables scripts from running from that domain.
So much of unpaid journalism is bloggers re-hashing the work of these big(ger)-budget news agencies, often with less clarity and more partisan slant. Not to say NYT, WaPo, WSJ and other high-quality paid sources are perfect but they are far better than the free competition.
