Chicago prepares for excessive heat: ‘Take it seriously’
A jogger runs near Montrose Beach in the Uptown neighborhood during a warm and humid day on July 26, 2023. Parts of the area were under a severe thunderstorm warning as a storm system moved east through northern Illinois, according to weather officials.
“We’ve been pretty lucky so far this year, with the lack of humidity during some of our hotter stretches, but this time around it looks like the humidity is going to play a bigger role,” Doom told the Tribune.is a measure of relative humidity and air temperature. It’s a closer representation of how it really feels outside, an important measurement for weather officials deciding when to issue heat warnings and advisories.
“That’s sort of shifting eastward a little bit, but luckily, as it does, it’s going to kind of fizzle away and so that’s why we’re not expecting temperatures quite as high,” he said.Heat is the top weather-related killer in the United States, even though many deaths are preventable, according to the. Medical experts say heat isn’t as visible as other weather disasters or taken as seriously.
“Anytime the temperatures go above 90, you should pay attention to it,” Cobo said. In places like northern Illinois where most people aren’t used to high temperatures, the body might respond differently than someone in Florida would.
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