It’s always interesting reading stats like these as an Australian. Our most recent heatwave was something like a maximum of 100F during the day and a minimum of

It’s always interesting reading stats like these as an Australian. Our most recent heatwave was something like a maximum of 100F during the day and a minimum of 85F during the night at 60-80% humidity. So there was this period of probably >24 hours that was at or above the “critical environmental limit”. It’s too hard to find good stats on how many deaths this caused (you could simply count the number of the deaths on the day to get an upper bound, but how many of those deaths will be “people who would have died this month because of their fragile health and the heat wave merely “gathered” those deaths on that day? Ideally you want something like QALY impact instead), but I believe I recall studies indicating heatwaves like these increase mortality by 5% (so from 40 per 100,000 to 42 per 100,000).