Mississippi summers could soon get hotter. A lot hotter.

JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) – Unhealthy information. A brand new report says that summers in Mississippi might get much more oppressive.

In line with a examine by the First Road Basis, within the subsequent 30 years, Mississippi might expertise blistering warmth, with elements of the state seeing warmth index temperatures above 125 levels.

The warmth index, or “seems like” temperatures, is the temperature it seems like when humidity and air temperature are mixed.

The “Excessive Warmth Belt,” the place warmth index temperatures are set to rise above 125 levels inside the subsequent 30 years, stretches from the Northern Texas and Louisiana borders to Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin. They’re calling this space an “Excessive Warmth Belt.”

The mannequin by the First Road Basis exhibits that fifty counties will expertise “Excessive Hazard Days” subsequent yr. By the yr 2053, 1,023 counties, they are saying, might expertise these temperatures.

This may have an effect on greater than 107 million individuals. In line with the mannequin, a big swath of Mississippi can be affected as properly.

“The First Road Basis Excessive Warmth Mannequin supplies property homeowners and communities a greater understanding of their private threat to warmth within the current and 30 years sooner or later,” the report acknowledged. “Data on warmth threat at a high-resolution underneath present local weather circumstances in addition to sooner or later permit for higher knowledgeable decision-making round threat avoidance, adaptation choices, and property preparation.”

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