Daily News | Philly is getting shorter, more frequent heat waves. This summer’s first could start Thursday.
heat wave of 2022 starting Thursday, forecasters assure it won’t survive a holiday weekend that should be at least half-decent — and even be kind to the fireworks shows and their admirers.in effect, and crest well into the 90s on Friday, but on Saturday,And with a page about to fall off the calendar, entering July nothing like the heat that has baked parts of Europe, Japan, and the American West this season is in the Philadelphia region’s near future.
Whatever the reason, the trend could help explain why heat-related deaths have been on the decline in Philadelphia. Philadelphia pioneered the method for counting heat-related mortality by including cases in which heat was a contributing cause — as opposed to solely counting confirmed hyperthermia cases, a core body temperature of 105 Fahrenheit.Since it would be impossible to get to all victims in time to confirm hyperthermia, the city’s thenmedical examiner ordered staff to look for forensic clues such as fans operating in a room with closed windows.
In the last 10 years, the longest spell of consecutive days with 90-degree or higher temperatures was 10, in 2012.Conversely, the last 10 years have produced a harvest of hot spells that lasted just three to five days, with more than three on average and five last year.That might have to do with more moisture being in the air and on the ground, said Dombek. Rain has a way of begetting rain.
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