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16-08-2022, 08:31 AM
PUBLISHED AUG 15, 2022, 12:27 PM SGT
WASHINGTON (BLOOMBERG) - So you think it's hot out there now? Consider the summer of 2053. That's what researchers at First Street Foundation, a New York non-profit organisation that studies climate risk, did in a report published on Monday (Aug 15).
They predict that in three decades, more than 100 million Americans will live in an "extreme heat belt" where at least one day a year, the heat index will exceed 52 degrees Celsius - the top level of the National Weather Service's heat index, or the extreme danger level.
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The future heat belt is a huge swath of the country that includes the South-east and the area just west of the Appalachian Mountains, stretching from Texas and Louisiana all the way up through Missouri and Iowa to the Wisconsin border.
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The sharpest heat increase, however, will be felt in Miami-Dade County, Florida, where the hottest days now, those reaching 39.4 deg C, will increase in frequency from seven days a year to 34 by 2053.
Much more at: https://www.straitstimes.com/world/unite...-the-2050s
WASHINGTON (BLOOMBERG) - So you think it's hot out there now? Consider the summer of 2053. That's what researchers at First Street Foundation, a New York non-profit organisation that studies climate risk, did in a report published on Monday (Aug 15).
They predict that in three decades, more than 100 million Americans will live in an "extreme heat belt" where at least one day a year, the heat index will exceed 52 degrees Celsius - the top level of the National Weather Service's heat index, or the extreme danger level.
......
The future heat belt is a huge swath of the country that includes the South-east and the area just west of the Appalachian Mountains, stretching from Texas and Louisiana all the way up through Missouri and Iowa to the Wisconsin border.
......
The sharpest heat increase, however, will be felt in Miami-Dade County, Florida, where the hottest days now, those reaching 39.4 deg C, will increase in frequency from seven days a year to 34 by 2053.
Much more at: https://www.straitstimes.com/world/unite...-the-2050s
