by Las Vegas – Extreme heat has already fatally challenged this summer in the USA, even if some of the hottest weeks are still coming.
The northern hemisphere is approaching the middle of the summer, and preliminary numbers of some notorious hotspots in the country show that heat was again an important killer this year.
Warmth is sometimes referred to as a “silent killer” because its effects on the human body are not always obvious. The symptoms of a heat-related disease to the body’s organs lose the ability to regulate the temperature and to be dangerously overwhelmed-often unnoticed until it is too late.
According to the national weather service, the extreme heat leads more deaths every year than any other weather event, including floods, hurricanes and tornados. It is expected that these risks will increase in the coming years, since climate change increases the frequency, intensity and duration of heat waves around the world.
This week, the dangerously high temperatures depart in the south, in the middle west and in the northeast. Around 96 million people are on Wednesday under heat warnings from New Orleans north to Minneapolis and are distributed to the east through New England.
In the meantime in Clark County in South Nevada, the forensic doctor announced that so far 29 heat-related deaths have been reported this year-from the same time in 2024. Clark County includes the city of Las Vegas, which was published the fastest of the country that is published this year, which is published this year, which does not work this year.
The district recorded its first heat -related death on May 9, weeks before the first confirmed death in connection with heat -related deaths at the end of May 2024. Last year it was particularly fatal for South Nevada with 527 heat-related deaths.
One person cools down through Mister along the Las Vegas Strip, while the temperatures approach 110 degrees on July 14, 2025. (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal/Tns/Getty Images)
According to the National Weather Service in South Nevada, the summer of 2024 was the hottest story in history. Las Vegas recorded a new record high temperature of 120 degrees Fahrenheit last July and had three -digit temperatures for more than 100 days.
Nearby, in Arizonas Maricopa County, 15 heat -related deaths were recorded by July 19. The early payment streets confirmed the 23 confirmed deaths by July 19, 2024, although the public health records indicate that 299 deaths are still being examined this year.
In May, the Maricopa County Department of Public Health announced that at least one heat -related death in the Maricopa district took place daily from June 18 to 31 last year.
In 2024, the hottest year for the district, the authorities confirmed 602 heat -related deaths, from a record injuries of 645 heat -related deaths in 2023. This was the first decline in Maricopa’s warmth in a decade.
Local civil servants have launched several new initiatives to keep people in the summer cool and safe, including planting trees in order to increase the shadows in public spaces and to resist the shadows with more reflective surfaces in certain areas to combat urban heat.
“For many people, warmth is an inconvenience, but it is a lot of life and death for others,” said Ariel Choinard, scientist at the desert research institute in Las Vegas and head of the Nevada Heatlabor.
Certain people are more at risk than others, such as seniors, people with chronic health states or small children who may not be able to articulate how they feel.
According to Choinard, exposure to extreme heat also generally has a disproportionate effect on communities with lower incomes. While everyone in a city like Las Vega’s high summer temperatures is exposed to, the heat depends on whether they have stable apartments, regardless of whether they are dependent on public transport or whether they have access to air conditioning and can afford.
A study published in the Jama magazine in August 2024 showed that in the USA there were 21,518 deaths in connection with heat -related deaths in the United States. Research pursued these deaths every year and found that the heat -related mortality rates have increased in the past two decades and especially in the past seven years.
This year’s thermal resistance figures for Maricopa and Clark regional circles are considered provisional, and not all counties or states have released estimates of the Heat tribute early this year.
In the early figures to warm deaths, a “delayed indicator”, said Choinard, since the office of the forensic doctor took time to carry out examinations and confirm whether heat was or not a factor for the reported deaths. The final counts of heat -related mortality are often only published at the end of the year or even early next year.
In weeks before cooling the temperatures, the extreme heat remains a threat in many states.
“Summer is by no means over,” said Choinard. “Here in Vegas our heat time can extend until October.“”
This article was originally published on nbcnews.com
