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Chicago When It Sizzles
Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
The Wet Bulb Thermometer
Every ambulance and every paramedic in the city was called in to work. At a wet bulb temperature of 95 degrees, sweating simply cannot cool your skin. Such conditions will kill pretty much any one within ours. By saturday evening, there were 269 bodies at the cook county morgue. That was more than the morgues refrigerators could hold.
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