Nearly a third of Americans - about 113 million people - are currently under heat advisories.
Absolutely crazy. Particularly sitting in wet Ireland currently!
From the article:
Parts of the US are expected to see record temperatures on Sunday, with warnings of “dangerous” heat levels into next week across the south-west.
Nearly a third of Americans - about 113 million people - are currently under heat advisories, from Florida to California and up to Washington state. The country’s National Weather Service (NWS) has urged people not to underestimate the risk to life.
On Saturday, an all-time high of 118F (48C) was recorded in Phoenix, Arizona. It means temperatures have hit 110F (43C) for 16 days running, itself almost a rerecor Mobile clinics there have reported treating homeless people suffering from third-degree burns.
Meanwhile, Death Valley in California - one of the hottest places in the world - is forecast to reach 129F (54C), nearing the hottest temperatures ever reliably recorded on Earth.
The NWS has said that local records could also be set on Sunday in the San Joaquin Valley, Mojave Desert, and Great Basin regions.
Its Saturday-evening update said the temperatures would “pose a health risk and are potentially deadly to anyone without effective cooling and/or adequate hydration”.
About 700 people are estimated to die each year from heat-related causes in the US, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
I wonder about the 3rd dgree burns. Did they touch something metal or the melting asphalt or just from exposure?
i cant speak from their exact expierence but as a kid i got 2nd degree sunburns from being in a friends pool, well their grandparents pool, without having on proper sunscreen. so id imagine its possible if youre out there in it with no where to go or pushing a cart or just touching something metal without gloves.
oh I never thought of sunburns in regard to degrees. I recall I had a very bad one when I went to a water park and spend all day on a tube ride so my front side was constantly exposed but the water would splash around from various little slides so I had no idea how sunburned I was till I dried off. Swear I spent the whole night in a tub.
I spent a week laying on the floor dreading to move. I had blisters that would pop and reform. It sucked big time.
definitely worse than mine. I had a lot of skin peal and did not want to move at all but I was shy of actual blisters.
Humidity isn’t helping either
