US weather deaths on average by season (tornadoes, snow, hot)
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I thought this chart was pretty interesting. It seems to imply winter is the safest time of the year from weather related deaths. With the storms (tornadoes,thunderstorms,floods) of spring, the hurricanes in the fall, and the mixed bag of heat and other misery for the summer. I wonder though if you consider sickness from winter flu, falls on ice, and fires and carbon monoxide deaths if winter would be more of a killer.
I think this makes November the safest month. Too late for hurricanes, too early in most places for severe winter weather. Although, November is secondary tornado season in some places...
Yeah once you go below -15c the cold gets exponentially more dangerous, with strong winds even at -15 you can't leave your limbs exposed for more than a few minutes. -20 is when you turn on the news and start reading about homeless deaths
Yeah once you go below -15c the cold gets exponentially more dangerous, with strong winds even at -15 you can't leave your limbs exposed for more than a few minutes. -20 is when you turn on the news and start reading about homeless deaths
I agree. I don't like when people defend cold weather too much.
Cold weather is the biggest killer in Australia (in terms of weather)
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A new study published in The Lancet shows 6.5% of deaths in this country are attributed to cold weather, compared with 0.5% from hot weather. Most deaths will be from cardiovascular and respiratory disease, as it’s the heart and lungs that struggle when we are outside our comfort zone.
When cold weather deaths were first noticed the theory was that it was due to people shovelling snow. Then when deaths were shown in warm countries such as Australia, the finger of blame moved onto the flu. While the winter flu does kill a lot of people, the majority of winter deaths are due to cold exposure via an increase in blood pressure.
The UK sees about 25000 excess winter deaths per year. I'm amazed that only a handful of winter deaths occur in the US, with colder temps.
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