Study Warns Of Coming “Extreme Heat Belt” In US

Bloomberg News reports:

So you think it’s hot out there now? Consider the summer of 2053. That’s what researchers at First Street Foundation, a New York nonprofit that studies climate risk, have done in a report published today.

They predict that in three decades, more than 100 million Americans will live in an “extreme heat belt” where at least one day a year, the heat index will exceed 125° Fahrenheit (52° Celsius) — the top level of the National Weather Service’s heat index, or the extreme danger level.

The future heat belt is a huge swath of the country that includes the Southeast and the area just west of the Appalachian Mountains, stretching from Texas and Louisiana all the way up through Missouri and Iowa to the Wisconsin border.

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A huge swath of the US will see temperatures occasionally reach 125°F by 2053, researchers predict https://t.co/eUcNfbd4m8

— Bloomberg (@business) August 15, 2022

An “Extreme Heat Belt” is emerging in the Central US, from northern Texas to Chicago. Here, at least 1 day with a heat index >125°F is likely to occur each year within the next 30 years, @FirstStreetFdn finds. https://t.co/41vXYNO1V1

— Andrew Freedman (@afreedma) August 15, 2022