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How do you prep in a power outage due to an over-capacity system and the heat/humidity combination is no longer compatible with human life? (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

40C by itself isn't life threatening if the humidity isn't as high. The temperatures on their own regarding this heatwave were about 38C, but with the high humidity, the heat index exceeded 49C. I'm seeing a death toll of at least 14 so far.