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Southern US Reaches Dangerous "Wet Bulb Temperature". Here's What That Means (www.iflscience.com)

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Multiple southern states and a few midwestern states are at "extreme threat" levels of "wet bulb temperature".

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[–] esc27@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

An earlier version of this article was published in June 2021.

I'm not sure if I should be alarmed that this is happening frequently enough to recycle older articles or comforted that we've already dealt with this trouble once before.

[–] Whirlgirl9@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

they updated it on july 4th 2023. i think when they originally wrote the article, they were explaining what wet bulb temperature meant. Now they're pointing out the frequency of reaching that threshold...which really sucks...so alarmed for sure.