Heat waves and their increasing occurrences and severity

Heat waves in the united states have been increasingly common and have also been increasing in severity over the past 10 years daily high temperatures have occurred twice as often as records lows. Meaning that over time our atmosphere has only been getting hotter and hotter while the colder temperatures aren't getting low their. This might not seem as bad on the surface as hot days only get slightly hotter from an average person view but this couldn't be worse. A lot of things suffer from hotter weather like agriculture which requires cool nights and moderate heat in the days. With the days becoming hotter it could be too much for crops and even in the nighttime where it is supposed to be cool, it would be hot instead. Electric grids may also suffer as hotter days mean there is a higher need for cooling which usually requires electriicty further compunding the problem if methods of electricity arnt clean.

https://www.c2es.org/content/heat-waves-and-climate-change/

"Extreme heat is the deadliest natural disaster in the United States, killing more people on average (about 600 per year) than hurricanes, lightning, tornadoes, earthquakes, and floods combined. The Billion Dollar Weather Disasters database compiled by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration lists heat waves as four of the top 10 deadliest U.S. disasters since 1980. Two heat waves in 1980 and 1988 were particularly deadly and account for the vast majority of extreme weather-related deaths in the database, with Hurricane Katrina (1,833 deaths) as the only non-heat wave event that caused more than 500 fatalities."