Medical Xpress July 10, 2024
The numbers are staggering. In what the National Weather Service has described as a “never-ending heat wave,” records continued to fall across the West this week: 120 degrees Farenheit (49 degrees Celsius) in Las Vegas; a low that never dipped below 92 F in Phoenix; Five straight 100-plus F days in Oregon. In Death Valley it was so hot (128 F) that helicopters couldn’t fly to the rescue when the heat sickened motorcyclists. One died and another was hospitalized.
“More people die of heat than any other weather-related event, but it is just not publicized in the same way. We don’t name heat waves like we do with hurricanes, and when you look outside there’s nothing to really see so...
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