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Thu. 06/09 - Heat Waves May Get Names, Like Hurricanes

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Tech News, News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Heat waves in the future could come with their own names, and we might be able to keep safe from them thanks to advances in smart window technology. Plus, Europe’s largest ever land dinosaur has just been discovered. And why Wendy’s is temporarily retiring their vanilla Frosty’s. Sponsors: Indeed, Get a free $75 credit PLUS earn up to $500 extra in sponsored job credits with Indeed’s Virtual Interviews at Indeed.com/goodnews Links: Heat waves could soon have names (Axios) How smart windows save energy (Knowable) Europe's 'largest ever' land dinosaur found on Isle of Wight (BBC) Bones found on Isle of Wight may be from Europe's biggest predator dinosaur (The Guardian) Why the World's Biggest Dinosaurs Keep Getting Cut Down to Size (Scientific American) Archaeologists May Have Found The Remains of Europe's Largest Ever Land Predator (ScienceAlert) The T. Rex Still Rules Over the Rest (The Ringer) Wendy’s Is Replacing Vanilla Frosties With Strawberry Ones This Summer (Mental Floss) Wendy's Adds Strawberry Frosty to the Menu, Kills Off the Vanilla Frosty (Thrillist) Wendy's is finally selling this 'highly anticipated' Frosty flavor (CNN Business) Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Heat waves in the future could come with their own names, and we might be able to keep

0:47.1

safe from them thanks to advances in smart window technology.

0:52.3

Plus, Europe's largest ever land dinosaur has just been discovered, and why Wendy's is

0:59.2

temporarily retiring their vanilla frosties.

1:02.9

Here's some cool stuff for your ride home.

1:08.5

Summer is kicking off in the northern hemisphere and with it increasingly deadly heat waves.

1:16.2

Now, I didn't know this, but according to both a 10-year and 30-year average from the National Weather

1:21.7

Service in the U.S., heat waves kill more people than floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, or any other weather emergency.

1:30.3

And yet, there is typically very little advanced warning or media coverage of heat waves, at least

1:36.9

as compared to what you see before a tornado or hurricane.

1:40.8

And you don't often hear about states of emergency being declared and federal funding pouring in to help an area recover from a heat wave.

1:48.1

Although I think the one that hit the Pacific Northwest last year would be a significant exception.

1:52.7

But generally speaking, despite actually being more deadly, heat waves do not get the same hype as other extreme weather events. And some say that might be part of

2:03.5

why they're more deadly. Newsreels showing flooded streets and destroyed homes stick with people.

2:10.7

They visually illustrate the danger of floods and storms. But it's harder to show the effects of a

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