How to stay safe during extreme heat

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🗓️ 4 July 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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About 600 people in the U.S. die from heat related causes each year. While our bodies have ways to dissipate heat, sometimes they just can't keep up with extreme temperatures. Here are four tips from experts on how to stay safe and cool in extreme heat.

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0:00.0	Hey, life kit listeners, summer's year.
0:02.6	So we wanted to reshare this episode we did
0:04.7	on how to keep cool in the heat.
0:07.0	While this episode originally ran in July of 2021,
0:11.0	the tips still hold up.
0:12.7	Stay safe out there.
0:13.9	BANG!
0:15.1	Meteorologists say last month was the hottest June ever recorded.
0:19.6	112 degrees at Hanford.
0:21.8	And we had a record high temperature of 104 in Salt Lake City.
0:25.1	Seattle and Portland have recorded consecutive days
0:28.4	of temperatures exceeding 100 degrees.
0:31.6	The unprecedented heat wave is also
0:34.0	putting a strain on electrical grids.
0:38.5	In late June, we saw record breaking temperatures sweep
0:41.6	the Pacific Northwest.
0:43.0	We had 110 degrees at Merced California, 114 in at Fresno.
0:48.5	That is the highest in recorded history.
0:51.0	And the problem is global, notes VJ LaMade,
0:54.1	a climate and health scientist at the Natural Resources
0:57.0	Defense Council.
0:58.1	In Pakistan and across South Asia, recorded temperatures,
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