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To: Don Green who wrote (36)	7/29/2021 12:01:15 PM
From: Don Green	of 942

Heat Doesn’t Grab Attention Like A Tornado Or Hurricane - Here’s Why It Should In my home state, a young man recently died on the first day of football practice in middle Georgia. According to NBC News, the practice was during a mandatory, non-pads practice period allowing student athletes to adjust to the heat. On that late July day, the National Weather Service (NWS) temperature was 97 degrees F, according to NBC News. However, that is only part of the story. The NWS Atlanta office tweeted on July 27th, “Heat Indices are expected to rise into the 100 to 106 degree range today across portions of central and south GA. Please remember to stay hydrated....” This was a good indicator of heat levels that week. Metrics like Heat Index and Wet Bulb Globe Temperature provide better information on the human impact of extreme heat because they also account for things like humidity or body physiology. While the cause of the aforementioned football incident is still under investigation, it is a good prompt to revisit the “silent weather killer.” Heat Doesn’t Grab Attention Like A Tornado Or Hurricane - Here’s Why It Should (forbes.com)

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