Climate Change and Heat Stress Impacts
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We all know by now that Climate Change is making heatwaves and the level of heat stress worse then ever. There are more record breaking heatwaves in the last 20 years, which most of these records were in the last few years. The European Heatwaves of 2003, 2019, and 2022, The Siberian Heatwave in 2020, The Pacific Northwest and Canadian Heatwave of 2021, The deadly India heatwave of May 2022 and The lesser known but a very intense Antarctica Heatwave of March 2022 were all breaking all time records, some areas by more then several degrees above previous all time records. As the pacific is now entering the El Nino phase, likely a strong El Nino as we head toward this Summer and Fall and the next few years will yet bring more worse heatwaves and will likely get our planet at or above 1.5°C (2.7°F) temporally for the first time ever in just a matter of the next few years.
You all may know there is already a Wet Bulb Temperature layer, which it's the natural Wet Bulb Temperature that it would be the temperature of the thermometer that it's covered in a wet cloth. Because of the growing concern of heat stress that is worsening by climate change, you should consider adding the Wet Bulb Globe Temperature (WBGT), which is exposed to direct solar radiation and it is usually within a degree or two higher then the Regular Wet Bulb Temperature used by default. Any Wet Bulb value above 35°C (95°F) is considered fatal when exposed to it.
In addition to the WBGT, you should consider adding a Heat Index or Humidex layer that will show the feel like temperature as we feel as humans. You can also consider using the new revised Heat Index Formula "Extended Heat Index Formula (Lu and Romps 2022)" that was made since they studied and said that the NWS current Heat Index formula was underestimating extreme heatwaves such as the deadly Chicago heatwave of 1995. -
@Weather2004 said in Climate Change and Heat Stress Impacts:
… you should consider adding the Wet Bulb Globe Temperature (WBGT)…
Apparently there is no global weather model offering directly a prediction of this parameter (WBGT).
So you should explain how to calculate it from other parameters like temperature, humidity, wind speed, cloudiness, wet bulb temperature, solar radiation, … as nothing is really clear about WBGT.
Here is one way, but you may find many others in scientific literature :
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_globe_temperature -
@idefix37, I know that some parameters don't exist. I am sure we can calculate using multiple parameters to bring this layer to live. It will take some work to implement.
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@Weather2004 said in Climate Change and Heat Stress Impacts:
I am sure we can calculate using multiple parameters
The question is how do YOU calculate it ? I do not imagine Windy having to do research work to develop a calculation formula from different parameters.
