DHSS Warns Missourians About Heat-Related Illness (LISTEN) - Missourinet

DHSS warns Missourians about heat-related illness (LISTEN) - Missourinet

2025’s first official day of summer is June 20, and the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services wants to remind Missourians about the risk of summer heat while still enjoying the outdoors. Dr. Heidi Miller, DHSS Chief Medical Officer, joins Bill Pollock on Show Me Today. This interview is sponsored by the Missouri Department […]

As we get deeper into summer, let’s talk about heat and how we measure it

In brief: In today’s post we discuss the best tool we have for determining “heat” during the summer time months, something called the wet bulb globe temperature. And we’re going to need this tool for the weekend, when air temperatures should spike into the upper 90s. Next week looks significantly cooler and wetter. Let’s talk about heat, and how we measure it We are getting toward the spiky bit of summer—although to be clear, summer does not typ…

Summer’s coming: Prevent heat-related illness

There’s no better time to play it cool than in extreme heat. So says The Family Initiative (TFI), which notes that, according to the National Weather Service, heat is the leading weather-related killer in the United States, resulting in hundreds of fatalities each year.