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Wednesday, August 17th, 2022

In 30 years’ time, ‘extreme heat belt’ to cover middle of US, says report

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Source:     Agence French-Presse (France)
Publication Date:     16 August 2022 | 0530
 Link: In 30 years’ time, ‘extreme heat belt’ to cover middle of US, says report
Stephan:   I have been warning my readers for over a decade that this was coming, heat so great that ordinary life becomes very difficult. This is going to be the cause of one of the three great internal migrations that are going to happen in the U.S. If my wife and I owned property in these heat belt states I would begin to think about selling or moving before real estate values in that area crash, as they inevitably will. Think about it. How would you live in an area where temperatures of 125˚F became a regular event?
A homeless man is treated for heat stroke in Shoreline (Washington), July 26 2022.  Credit: David Ryder / Getty / AFP

An area of intensely warm weather — a so-called “extreme heat belt” — with at least one day per year in which the heat index hits 125 Fahrenheit (52C), is expected to cover a US region home to more than 100 million people by the year 2053, according to a new study.

The research, carried out by nonprofit First Street Foundation, used a peer-reviewed model built with public and third-party data to estimate heat risk at what they called a “hyper-local” scale of 30 square meters.

First Street Foundation’s mission is to make climate risk modeling accessible to the public, government and industry representatives, such as real estate investors and insurers.

A key finding from the study was that heat exceeding the threshold of the National Weather Service’s highest category — called “Extreme Danger,” or above 125F — was expected to impact 8.1 million people in 2023 and grow to 107 million people in 2053, a 13-fold increase.

This would encompass a geographic region stretching from northern […]

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2 Comments

  1. Albus Eddie on Wednesday, August 17, 2022 at 5:21 am

    Note that this did not originate from a US publication.

  2. Rev. Dean on Wednesday, August 17, 2022 at 4:25 pm

    I know you are right Stephan, we here in Pa. already have seen the changes coming from Climate Change even though the GOP will not even admit it exists.