A stretch of harmful, record-breaking warmth is hitting the Southwest. Phoenix will expertise temperatures over 100 levels for the subsequent two weeks straight, with highs above 104 levels. It’s the third-hottest June on file since 1895.
At Arizona State University, there is a workforce welcoming summer time’s surging temperatures. Researchers are utilizing a sweating check dummy referred to as ANDI to review how warmth impacts the human physique.
“We needed to grasp how these lifelike situations influence the human physique,” stated professor Konrad Rykaczewski, an ASU senior world futures scientist.
The sweating check dummy prices greater than $600,000 and is crammed with sensors to watch warmth. ANDI is just one of two such mannequins on this planet constructed to go away the lab and enterprise outdoors into the day’s warmth.
“We actually see that from daily, because the heatwave continues, your core temperature begins off half a level greater day-after-day,” stated Rykaczewski. “And then you might be a lot nearer to a warmth sickness.”
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Last summer time, Phoenix noticed a file 54 days at or above 110 levels, together with all 31 days in July. Maricopa County alone reported 645 heat-related deaths, marking a 52% improve. On common final July, 13 heat-related deaths occurred per day within the county.
Meanwhile, the Phoenix Fire Department is utilizing social media to induce individuals to be warmth good and to keep away from climbing throughout peak temperatures.
Arizona now has the nation’s solely chief warmth officer. Dr. Eugene Livar will oversee the rollout of a brand new excessive warmth preparedness plan.
“I believe what retains me up is simply, ‘is there anything we are able to do?'” Livar stated. “‘Is there extra that we are able to do?”‘
Beyond Phoenix, 20 million individuals within the Southwest U.S. have been below excessive warmth alerts Monday. According to the NWS Weather Prediction Center, there are extreme warmth warnings, watches and warmth advisories over elements of California, the Southwest and western Texas on Tuesday.
