New Ways To Warn About Extreme Heat, the “Silent Killer”

The Climate Divide

With over a month left of summer, D.C. has already surpassed its yearly average of 90-degree days. As climate change causes longer and more intense heat waves, weather alerts are changing to better communicate the dangers of extreme heat to vulnerable populations. In this first episode of season 4, host Marcelo Jauregui-Volpe speaks with Jessica Lee, a public program coordinator at the National Weather Service, about HeatRisk, the agency’s new heat forecasting tool that informs heat sensitive populations when hot and muggy weather can be dangerous. The episode also features an interview with climate scientist Casey Ivanovich, about why she and her colleagues introduced the term “stickiness” to better understand extreme humid heat.

Link to HeatRisk: https://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/heatrisk/

Link to HeatRisk survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ExpNWSHeatRisk_2024

Music (all tracks provided by Blue Dot Sessions)

• Gale
• Heather
• Kresson
• Thread of Clouds

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