Biden administration launches Heat.gov website as heatwave hits country
The new website will provide up-to-date information on high temperatures across the country and how to prepare for them.
by Alejandra O’Connell-Domenech
The Biden administration launched a new heat preparedness website called Heat.gov on Tuesday.
The website comes as the country deals with rolling heat waves that have broken hundreds of local high temperature records.
As global warming worsens due to human-influenced climate change summers are expected to get hotter and more dangerous.
The Biden administration launched a new website Tuesday aimed at helping Americans handle extreme heat.
Heat.gov is an interagency project with information on heat conditions across the country — in the form of interactive maps and forecasts — heat responses and how to lower the risks that come with high temperatures.
“President Biden has directed us to respond to the extreme heat gripping the nation. Extreme heat is a silent killer, yet it affects more Americans than any other weather emergency — particularly our nation’s most vulnerable,” said Gina McCarthy, White House national climate advisor. “Heat.gov is an exciting new and accessible website designed to help everyone become engaged with their community, their state-level government, and federal partners, to take actions that can reduce the deadly health impacts of extreme heat.”
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