The R-Shrack system takes mortality, health data and weather data to create a category. The algorithm then tells meteorologists how deadly a future heatwave will be. "We don't have such considerations or policies in relation to a category four heatwave because there is no category four heatwaves"
As devastating heat waves like the recent one in China become more common, we’re going to need new ways of talking about them. Vox’s Neel Dhanesha explains a proposal to name heat waves.
This episode was produced by Amanda Lewellyn, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Noel King.
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