While the high heat is uncomfortable for most, it’s dangerous to those who work outside or are homeless.
Forecasted highs in the River City are at 101 degrees with a feels-like temperature up to 116 degrees.
Despite the blistering temperatures, the line for his hot dogs was still long at lunchtime. His famous teas and lemonade were hot sellers.“We see more patients around lunchtime, the middle of the day when the sun is highest,” said Dr. Andrew Schmidt, an emergency medicine physician at UF Health Jacksonville in Springfield.
“Heat exhaustion is kind of just being tired, not being able to do what you want to do,” he said. “Heatstroke is when people actually start acting abnormal. What we call altered mental status. And it becomes very dangerous because at that point if you don’t have someone looking over you, you start making poor decisions.”
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