Dangerous heat to continue throughout summer

Excessive warmth of the previous few weeks has leveled off. However thanks partially to La Niña, harmful — and probably lethal — warmth will proceed all through the summer season.

What’s occurring: The primary six months of 2022 are Atlanta’s fourth hottest on document, in keeping with the Nationwide Oceanic and Atmospheric Affiliation.

• Town broke and tied information for warmth in mid-June, in keeping with the AJC.

Why it issues: This 12 months’s extra-hot temperatures are regarding as a result of hospitals would possibly pressure from demand, the Georgia Division of Public Well being famous final month as a warmth wave smothered the state.

By the numbers: DPH reported 52 health-related deaths occurred in 2020, the most recent 12 months knowledge is on the market. That is the best quantity since 2010, when 54 fatalities have been documented.

• 1000’s of individuals go to Georgia emergency rooms for heat-related points yearly, and a whole lot spend time within the hospital.

Go deeper: Warmth-related sickness develops when the physique cannot sufficiently calm down or when an individual’s temperature exceeds 106 levels Fahrenheit — a degree at which organs can shut down and folks can change into completely disabled, Axios’ Arielle Dreher stories.

• From 2018 to 2020, 3,066 individuals died from heat-related causes in america, in keeping with the CDC, with the best toll amongst individuals aged 55 and older.
• Kids will expertise 35 occasions extra life-threatening excessive warmth occasions than individuals born about 60 years in the past, in keeping with analysis revealed this 12 months that tracked warmth publicity and emergency division visits.
• Pregnant ladies uncovered to warmth for prolonged durations are additionally at elevated danger for miscarriages, untimely births and different issues, an evaluation within the British Medical Journal discovered.

The massive image: Atlantans are seeing extra days and nights — when our bodies often have an opportunity to chill down — with larger heats because of local weather change and the city warmth island impact.

What to do: Keep inside with air-conditioning and drink loads of fluids.

• Test on neighbors, particularly seniors and folks residing on low incomes or with medical circumstances.