Daily News | Philly heat-wave death toll rises to 4, and it might increase
. They are especially dangerous to elderly people who live alone in rowhouses without air-conditioning.
The official temperature in Philadelphia has not slipped below 70 degrees since July 11. The lack of overnight cooling allows for a quick run-up in indoor daytime temperatures. Monday’s low, 81, tied the record, set in the brutal summer of 1991, for the highest minimum temperature for a July 25. “We think of people dying of the heat outdoors,” said Scott Sheridan, a Kent State University professor who is a heat-health specialist. “For most people it’s indoor weather that matters.”
Fortunately, even though summers have become warmer in Philadelphia — the daily “normal” temperatures in July are 3 degrees higher than they were in 1970, according to the National Weather Service — and in cities around the country as global temperatures have increased, heat-wave deaths have declined.In Philadelphia, in the last 10 years 37 heat-related deaths have been reported in the city, compared with as many as 400 in the 10-year period ending in 2002.
Sheridan said wider use of air-conditioning might be a factor, “and much better awareness. There’s so much more attention to these events now than there had been, and the forecasting is a lot better, that the potential impacts are better known.”
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