S. E. Perkins-Kirkpatrick, Catherine H. Gregory, Jennifer K. Vanos, J W Baldwin, H Staudmyer, Gisel Guzmán-Echavarría, Ollie Jay
C wet-bulb temperature. Of concern is regular exceedances of deadly thresholds for older people directly exposed across all events. Moreover, extremely hot yet dry conditions are found to be just as deadly as hot and humid conditions. For future climatological assessments, we emphasise the importance of employing increasingly accurate physiology-derived methods to assess the risk of potentially deadly heat stress.