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Heat wave ‘Hugo?’ New coalition seeks to name hot weather like hurricanes.

by Slack, Nov 12
1 minute read

New proposal to name and rank heatwaves in the way that tropical storms and hurricanes already are, to draw attention to the rising threat of deadly heatwaves (in the US, heatwaves are a ‘silent killer’ that kill more people than floods and hurricanes combined)

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