A Cooler Assessment of Heatwave Deaths
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“Lawn watering banned: mercury 101.3” read one Toronto newspaper. “Heat kills 100 Twin Citizens” titled a St-Paul newspaper. These titles are not from the current heavily discussed heatwave. They are from the 1936 heat wave – one of the most extreme waves of the twentieth century according to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Heat Wave […]