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It’s Too Hot to Fly Helicopters and That’s Killing People | Extreme temperatures across the United States are grounding emergency helicopters.
Extreme temperatures across the United States are grounding emergency helicopters.
With temperatures reaching 128 degrees Fahrenheit in California, the cyclists faced extreme heat exposure that killed one and sent another to a local hospital, according to the National Park Service. Thermal-induced turbulence is so common and so well known among commercial pilots that many prefer to fly early in the morning when the sun hasn’t yet cooked the planet and created pockets of plane-shaking nightmare air. Every summer in recent memory has been hotter than the last, with successive waves of heat domes setting record temperatures across the U.S. Every year, it gets a little harder and a little more dangerous to live thanks to man-made climate change.
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