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  • Heat, humidity combining to create conditions at the limits of human survivability

    Aug 23, 2023 11:00 am by NBC NewsIllinois in the News
    A couple watch the sunset Sunday in Kansas City, Mo., as triple-digit heat indexes continue in the Midwest. photo by Charlie Riedel / AP

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    • A couple watch the sunset Sunday in Kansas City, Mo., as triple-digit heat indexes continue in the Midwest. photo by Charlie Riedel / AP

    NBC News (Aug. 22) Climatologist Trent Ford says of the combination of high heat and humidity: 'It’s a nonlinear process – we can have significant community-scale health impacts at wet-bulb temperatures that are well below that threshold.'