Being a mom is hard — the heat is making it harder

It’s 8:52 AM and 86 degrees Fahrenheit (30 Celsius) where I live in Southern California. My husband just came back from a morning outing with our four-month-old.

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Being a mom is hard — the heat is making it harder

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Key Facts

  • Fact 1: It’s 8:52 AM and 86 degrees Fahrenheit (30 Celsius) where I live in Southern California.
  • Fact 2: “Dangerously hot conditions with high temperatures up to 110 [degrees Fahrenheit] expected,” my weather app warns me.
  • Fact 3: Around the world, 560 million children under the age of 10 are experiencing at least one additional month of heat stress each year as a result of climate change, according to a new study published in the journal Science Advances.
  • Fact 4: The threshold is set at a WetBulb Globe Temperature of 28 degrees Celsius (82.4 F), a measure that takes heat, humidity, wind speed, and cloud cover into account.

It’s 8:52 AM and 86 degrees Fahrenheit (30 Celsius) where I live in Southern California. My husband just came back from a morning outing with our four-month-old.

“How was the botanic garden?” I ask him. “It was okay. It was just too hot,” he tells me.

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Original source: The Verge

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