US EditionHeat, drought and high energy bills will impact millions across the US this summer
- AccuWeather predicts widespread drought, extreme heat waves, wildfires, and a dynamic Atlantic hurricane season across much of the U.S. This summer of 2025.
- Human-Caused climate change drives rising summer temperatures, more intense droughts, and severe heat events, compounded by urban heat island effects in expanding cities.
- Areas including the High Plains, West, northern Rockies, Northwest, and Plains are expected to face hotter-than-average conditions, worsening drought, and increased wildfire risks.
- AccuWeather predicts the Atlantic hurricane season will feature between 13 and 18 named storms, including seven to 10 hurricanes, with three to six expected to make direct landfall in the U.S. Additionally, it warns that electricity usage will increase across 33 states as residents rely more on cooling devices to combat rising temperatures.
- The combined effects of heat, drought, wildfires, and hurricanes pose significant public health risks and could cause economic losses estimated between $344 billion and $382 billion so far in 2025.
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Rapid increase in the risk of heat-related mortality
Heat-related mortality has been identified as one of the key climate extremes posing a risk to human health. Current research focuses largely on how heat mortality increases with mean global temperature rise, but it is unclear how much climate change will increase the frequency and severity of extreme summer seasons with high impact on human health. In this probabilistic analysis, we combined empirical heat-mortality relationships for 748 locati…
Chatham Star Tribune
Heat, drought and high energy bills will impact millions across the US this summer
Temperature departures 3 degrees or higher above the historical average are expected across parts of 14 states this summerThe demand for home, business and data center cooling is expected to be above the historical average across 33 statesImpacts from our…
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