It's today explained, I'm the well-king, about 11 weeks ago, a strange thing started happening in southwestern China.

It's summer, heat is normal, so the temperature went up, up some more, more.

The nights are hot, the days are hotter, and people are sweating through their shirts when they go outside.

There's just no relief.

It didn't stop.

A hundred degrees, a hundred two, a hundred four.

A construction worker dropped dead, and when they took his temperature, it was 109.4 degrees.

Chinese youth daily reported.

110 degrees, 113.

The thing was, people kept going to work, and going about their lives.

The heat was an annoyance.

In the US, the deadliest weather phenomenon is heat, but we kind of treat it like an annoyance, too.

Coming up, heat waves have been faking us out, a plan to make us realize they're dangerous.

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