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In the nearby state of New Mexico, a pair of fast-moving wildfires abetted by the blistering heat have killed two people, burned more than 23,000 acres and destroyed 500 homes, according to ...
Heat is also the deadliest form of extreme weather, the National Weather Service warns. Hot weather kills 1,220 people annually, according to the CDC. Hot weather kills 1,220 people annually ...
David Hom suffered from diabetes and felt nauseated before he went out to hang his laundry in 108-degree weather, another day in Arizona's record-smashing, unrelenting July heat wave. The death ...
And experts say that estimate is likely far lower than the actual number of lives lost to the excruciating heat. Extreme heat has killed 147 people in 5 counties, coroners report. The real number ...
In India, hundreds die every year from summer heat waves, [39] including more than 2,500 in the year 2015. [40] Later that same summer, the 2015 Pakistani heat wave killed about 2,000 people. [41] An extreme 2003 European heat wave caused tens of thousands of deaths. [42]
Heat causes more deaths than any other type of extreme weather, and it's becoming increasingly fatal both in parks and elsewhere as climate change make heat waves more frequent and severe.
[1] [2] Extreme heat caused heat stroke and dehydration, leading to the deaths. The hottest recorded temperature reported in the Grand Mosque of Mecca was 51.8 °C (125.2 °F). [3] At least 2,764 cases of heat-related illness, like heat stroke, were reported on 16 June alone. [4]
In July in the Netherlands, an orange alert was put in place for the entire country due to the extreme heat. [1] The previous high temperature heat record 38.6 °C (101.5 °F), set in Warnsveld in 1944, was broken on 24 July in Eindhoven (North Brabant) where the temperature reached 39.3 °C (102.7 °F). [ 70 ]