'It's not tolerable anymore': Southwest residents endure more severe heat waves thanks to CC [View all]
Source: Yahoo News
Ben Adler·Senior Editor
Thu, June 16, 2022, 7:15 PM
The Southwest suffered through another intense heat wave over the weekend, with Denver, Las Vegas and Phoenix all posting record high temperatures over 100 degrees Fahrenheit on Saturday. Death Valley, in California, reached a record high for June 11 of 122 degrees. In Las Vegas, the mercury rose to a record-setting 109 degrees two days in a row. Then the heat dome moved eastward, with a high temperature of 96 degrees in the Twin Cities of Minnesota.
“Now the heat dome is languishing over the Tennessee Valley and bringing highs of 95 to 100 degrees from the Corn Belt to the Carolinas, with exceptional humidity in the Midwest exacerbating just how sultry it feels,” the Washington Post reported on Wednesday afternoon. “High humidity levels are contributing to heat index values pushing 115 degrees in spots.”
This dramatic heat wave before summer has even officially begun isn’t a freak occurrence; it’s an increasingly common, and dangerous, condition due to climate change. A 2019 study found that severe heat events per year in Las Vegas increased from an average of 3.3 events per year from 2007-2009 to 4.7 per year from 2010-2016. Since 2017, 570 people have died of heat-related causes in Clark County, which includes Las Vegas, up from 241 heat-related deaths in the previous five years, according to the Southern Nevada Health District.
Residents of some of the hottest cities say extreme heat is having a devastating impact, especially on the most disadvantaged residents.
Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/its-not-tolerable-any-more-southwest-residents-endure-more-severe-heat-waves-thanks-to-climate-change-171400830.html
With apologies to those in Vegas and especially Phoenix, these cities are unnatural and should not even exist.
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