Hi there! anyone familiar with weather science? Extreme wasn't used before a few years . word that was used was advisory at around 117f. 110f is normal and 113f common. Only 117f or higher use different language I think Danger? Is this due to the drought? Thank you for the help!

I'm just a layman & not sure if this is apropos, but one concept I've learned via climate change in central TX is "wet bulb temperature." This is an intersection of heat & humidity where the body literally can't cool itself by sweating. Maybe "extreme" is flirting w/ that level?

Your body cools itself via sweat evaporation; if the air is hot & already saturated, sweat can't evaporate. At or above the wet bulb temperature, you *will* die being outside, just a question of how long en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bu…

The only other thing that I thought in regards to the language I'm seeing and apparently they're using in Texas as well is because of here 27 years of drought and you're in one as well I believe is that true? Definitely curious as to why the change here.

Hmm, might be a factor - not sure. We are, yeah. Austin in particular isn't *too* bad, but parts of the state are getting really critical. May is historically our wettest month by far, but we've only had one significant rain in a few months drought.gov/states/texas

I wonder if such language could actually be due to left-wing efforts, though (i.e., science believers, lol) - seems like I've noticed a trend in meteorology to start tying individual weather events & patterns into the greater narrative of climate change en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extrem…