Southern Florida once again has "EXTREME" Heat Risk today 5/18/24.
Extreme - This level of rare and/or long-duration extreme heat with little to no overnight relief affects anyone without effective cooling and/or adequate hydration. Impacts likely in most health systems, heat-sensitive industries and infrastructure.
@amyedge@ai6yr Unlike Texas, Florida has ties in/out with the rest of the nation’s power grids, so so long as the whole country ain’t tapped out, they’ll be ok.
@mjf_pro@amyedge Yes, except where a hurricane has destroyed infrastructure. Perfect storm in Florida is hurricane + extreme heatwave. Texas just requires an overloaded system combined with extreme heatwave (or infrastructure damage).
@researchbuzz I'm seriously wondering if it will be Texas or Florida hit by a massive wet bulb event that results in a huge loss of life, likely after a hurricane/wind event followed by extreme heat and humidity. With Houston hit this week by a storm, but no heat, and Florida hit by heat, but still with power, we're basically playing roulette now, IMHO.
@ai6yr@researchbuzz After Otis spun up with little warning to cat5 in ~12h last year, I've been worried about a heat --> power grid failure --> no way to warn large swaths of population about surprise hurricane threat scenario. Less likely, but lots of ways for a heatwave to turn unexpectedly lethal...
@Lazarou Yep... If they were smart, they'd be working full time on maximizing for survival of their population due to climate change, but instead they're pretending it doesn't exist. Miami will be underwater by the time they figure things out, IMHO... if they ever do.
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