The Grinch wrote:heat may be uncomfortable(still not buying that Wink ) but you will live.
Go look up "sunstroke" and then come back and tell us that heat can't kill you.
Absolutely. Outside on pavement, the actual temperature is 20 to 25 degrees F hotter than the reported temp. It's pretty easy to overheat at those temps, since your body has no way to dissapate that much excess heat. I managed to get heat exhaustion for the last two weekends in a row by working on my plane outside in the sun. Even drinking lots of water, I was woozy and nauseous after less than 2 hrs.
From the CDC on heat related deaths :
"during 1993-2002, the incidence of such deaths was 3-7 times greater in Arizona than in the United States overall."
and
"The European summer heat wave of 2003 was exceptionally harsh in both duration and intensity. In France alone, the number of heat-related deaths reached 14,800 by August 20"