Danger Season & Deadly Heat Mean National Parks Are No Longer A Summer Respite
the death of a young boy and his stepfather, as well as park visitors of advanced age. And this is before the historically hottest month of the year—August—has even started.
Heat illnesses are insidious because the symptoms can creep up on you, and while you may feel like you can muscle through, particularly if you’re fit, coping with heat is not related to physical stamina.After shattering records in the Southwest this month, the Midwest, South, and parts of the Southwest are in heat’s grip. And the heat is moving into the Northeast very soon. We have mapped NPS sites across the country and overlapped them with heat alerts issued by the National Weather Service .
Note that Dry Tortugas in Florida, a 100-square mile park in mostly open water with seven small islands, is marked as having no heat alerts . However, we have seen that the temperature of the ocean water off Florida and the Keys is Parks such as Death Valley post signs, including at trailheads, warning visitors about extreme heat dangers. They also alert visitors that they may not be able to come to their rescue during extremely hot days, so not planning properly can equate to trouble at best and a death sentence at worst.
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