Worsening heat and humidity as a result of climate change will bring extremely dangerous heat indices to much of the United States in the next 30 years.
Temperatures above the threshold of the National Weather Service's"extreme danger" category, when the heat index is more than 125 degrees Fahrenheit, is expected to affect about 8 million people in the US this year. But by 2053, 13 times that many people -- 107 million -- will experience that extremely dangerous heat, according to the study by the climate research group First Street Foundation.
But in the southern half of the country, the number of hottest days will grow to around 30 -- meaning what was once the hottest week of the year will become the hottest month by the 2050s, according to the study. Florida's Miami-Dade County will see the largest shift in extreme temperatures, where the hottest seven days of the year in 2023 will occur on 34 days in 2053.
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