#us heatwave

Some parts of the United States are hitting temperatures "too hot for safe fan use" twice as often as they did decades ago, new research shows. Analyzing hourly weather data from the past 20 years and between 1950 and 1969, Luke Parsons, a climate scientist at Duke University, and colleagues found that more US residents are being exposed more often to temperatures that are too hot for electric fans to cool people down – and might even be dangerous. "We find that the geographic extent of temperatures too high for safe fan use is expanding, and the number of safe hours is decreasing," Parsons and colleagues explain in their published paper. "In particularly hot locations, most afternoon hours during the hottest months of the year can exceed [safe] thresholds," they add.

I want people who don’t believe in global warming to kill themselves. This is NEVER normal for my region.

You know its bad if my summer loving ass hates it.

For my non-Americans:

(and anywhere else that is dealing with the heatwave. im just near there specifically)

there's a heat wave today (july 21st) please remember to stay hydrated and get into shade. take care of your pets!!! dont let them walk on the asphalt or cement because it can burn their paws! if you do let them outside GIVE THEM WATER. we dont want any pets dying and we dont want you dying or being dehydrated either.

here are some sources to learn more about being safe (this can go for anyone)

700 dead and counting: Canada struggles to cope with unprecedented heatwave

The unprecedented heatwave baking the Pacific Northwest has claimed as many as 700 lives over the last one week in Canada alone, according to officials, while two people were reported to have died due to a raging wildfire triggered by the heat in the village of Lytton in British Columbia, which had sizzled under a record high temperature of 49.6°C earlier in the week. It has been reported that…