WITH the rising effects of climate change, heat waves have become more severe and intolerable around the world, posing dangerous health issues such as heat exhaustion, heat strokes, severe dehydration, and heat cramps which could even be fatal.
Many places around the world have registered record-breaking high temperatures this year such as India, the UK, and the US. According to a study published last year in The Lancet, just under half a million deaths a year are estimated to be due to excess heat.
The question that arises is “When is the heat too hot to be tolerable?”. The answer lies beyond the temperatures reported in news headlines which actually do not tell the whole story.
