Re: "Excessive heat causes more weather-related deaths in the United States than hurricanes, flooding and tornadoes combined.
Posted by Chris in Tampa on 6/23/2022, 8:25 pm
As for hurricane related deaths, Jeff Masters blog today talks about direct vs indirect deaths from hurricanes:
https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2022/06/the-changing-face-of-hurricane-fatalities/

"Analyzing all fatalities caused by hurricanes between 2017 and 2021 in the contiguous United States, Brennan, Rhome, and colleagues found that indirect deaths outnumbered direct deaths by 299 to 271. (Had this analysis included Puerto Rico, the indirect-death numbers would have been overwhelmed by 2017's Hurricane Maria. The initial death toll was 64, but the final official toll incorporated an estimate of more than 2,900 hurricane-related deaths during the six months after Maria.)"
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"Excessive heat causes more weather-related deaths in the United States than hurricanes, flooding and tornadoes combined." - cypresstx, 6/21/2022, 11:14 am
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