Stay Safe in the Summer Sun: CDC Launches Free Heat Forecast Tool
by Tech Times
Tech Times— The CDC has launched an online heat forecaster, HeatRisk Forecast Tool, to help prepare for summer heatwaves.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (.gov)—NOAA expands availability of new heat forecast tool ahead of summer. Collaboration with CDC provides health guidance for those most vulnerable to heat.
WANE 15—New forecasting tool aims to identify the risk from extreme heat. Learn about a new forecasting tool that combines extreme heat and the human impacts that are experienced.
Los Angeles Times—Summer heat is coming. Here's a new interactive tool to help you deal with your health conditions. Despite the cooler temperatures across Southern California, the summer heat is just months away and a new interactive tool is available to help you assess how the impending high temperatures can affect your health and suggest steps to take avoid heat-related illnesses. Due to climate change, hot weather is lasting longer and happening more frequently, said Dr. Aaron Bernstein, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Environmental Health and the Agency for...