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Originally Posted by pwd72s

TV stations warning of a deadly heat wave, advice on how to survive, etc. Watching these would send residents of California's San Joaquine valley into gales of laughter..

About 20 years ago, I was doing a lot of traveling for work. Sometime in Jun or Jul, I left Houston and went to Boston. When I got there, I thought "wow, this weather is fantastic, so cool and comfy." I was driving from the airport to the hotel in the afternoon with the rental car windows down enjoying the fresh air. The radio DJ did the news and were talking about the heat wave and how some folks had already died of the extreme heat and how to keep from being affected by the heat. I was confused.

Just a few years ago, I read an article about a marathon in London. They were talking about how they were having to beef up the medical professionals and hydration stations over the entire course because of the extreme heat that they were experiencing. I think they were predicting temps in the mid to high 80s.

The human body gets used to certain temps, and if you take that body and put it in a radically different environment that it's not used to, it can be a problem.

We're like frogs, if you can slowly change the temp that we are exposed to, we can manage, but big swings away from our norm can impact us.