Many regions across the U.S. experienced “record-breaking high temperatures' in 2023 due to extreme heat, according to the CDC. Experts share risk factors and safety tips.
Many regions across the United States experienced 'record-breaking high temperatures' in 2023 due to extreme heat, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention . Emergency room visits due to heat-related illness peaked in several regions in the U.S. and remained elevated for a prolonged duration compared to visits between 2018 and 2022, the agency’s recent Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report noted.
Americans are experiencing 'longer, hotter and more frequent episodes of extreme heat,' the report states. Is extreme heat a public threat? 'Extreme heat could be considered an invisible killer in so much as many people become exposed and vulnerable to its dangers quickly and often without warning,' Patrick McHugh, M.D., an emergency medicine physician at Cleveland Clinic Akron General in Akron, Ohio, told Fox News Digital.
No one knows how much of the modest recent warming, around 1 over the past century, has been due to greenhouse gases and how much is natural,' Happer told Fox News Digital. He estimates that less than half of the warming is from increasing greenhouse gases. 'Whatever the cause, observations clearly show that there has been very little change in daily high temperatures,' Happer noted. 'The warming is almost all due to warmer minimum temperatures at night and in the winter.
For local heat and health information, the EPA spokesperson recommended using the CDC’s Heat and Health Tracker. Americans can also visit their local National Weather Service Forecast Offices for real-time heat-related warnings. Fox Weather can also be consulted on a regular basis for up-to-date weather information and news. For more Health articles, visit www.foxnews.com/health.
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