Extreme heat belt to cover middle of US: Report

India

oi-Vicky Nanjappa

New
Delhi,
Aug
16:
An
extreme
heat
belt,
an
area
of
intensely
warm
weather
with
at
least
one
day
per
year
in
which
the
heat
index
hits
125
Fahrenheit
(52C),
is
expected
to
cover
a
US
region
which
is
hometown
over
100
million
people
by
the
year
2053
a
report
said.

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

The
mission
is
to
make
climate
risk
modelling
accessible
to
the
public,
government
and
industry
representatives
such
as
real
estate
investors
and
insurers.

Climate
change
making
prediction
difficult
for
weather
agencies
across
world:
IMD

One
of
the
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
2053
which
is
a
13
fold
increase.

This
would
encompass
a
geographical
region
stretching
from
northern
Texas
and
Louisiana
to
Illinois,
Indiana
and
Wisconsin
.
The
heat
index
also
known
as
the
apparent
temperature
is
what
the
outside
temperature
really
feels
like
to
the
human
body
when
relative
humidity
is
combined
with
air
temperature.