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Study Finds One to Two More Months of Heat Stress in Parts of Mexico, Kenya, Italy and Other Regions Since 1970s
A study published Monday in Nature Climate Change found nations including Mexico, Kenya and Italy now face one to two additional months of heat stress compared with prior decades. Researchers documented increases reaching 50 days per year in parts of Africa, Mexico and Central America.
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A study published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change documented rising heat stress levels measured by the Universal Thermal Climate Index across multiple continents. Fortune reported that Mexico, Kenya, Italy and other countries now experience one to two more months of heat stress than several decades ago.
The analysis examined three thresholds: strong heat stress at or above 32 degrees Celsius, very strong at or above 38 degrees Celsius, and extreme at or above 46 degrees Celsius.
Parts of Southern Africa including Namibia and Angola, Eastern Africa including Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda, and parts of Mexico and Central America may each see around 50 more days per year of at least strong heat stress compared with the 1970s, Fortune reported.
Southern Spain, Italy, Greece and Turkey face up to 40 additional strong heat stress days in some areas, while much of Southern Europe records nearly a full month more than in the 1970s. , much of the country experiences at least 15 days of strong heat stress, with Texas and Florida seeing close to 25 or more days of very strong heat stress.
Feels-like temperatures on the ten warmest nights of each year rose 0.32 degrees Celsius per decade, outpacing the 0. One billion more people now encounter at least one day of extreme heat stress annually than in the 1970s. ” She added that the analysis shows rising humidity compounds the danger because sweating becomes less effective at cooling the body.
