Why Do Heat Waves Make Air Quality Worse?
Heat and sunlight make "chemical soup" that affects air quality
Dear EarthTalk: Why does air quality get so bad during heat waves?
-- Chad Muller, Wellesley, Mass.
Heat Waves
Who Is Most Affected?
People living in cities
Children and elderly people
People who are poor or living alone and without air conditioning
People with lung or heart diseases ...
Heat wave:an extended period of high heat and humidity. Heavy snow:snowfall that reduces visibility to 0.
Such changes may increase the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events such as floods, droughts, heat waves, and hurricanes, change agricultural yields, cause glacier retreat, reduced summer streamflows, ...
 See also: Environment, Fossil fuels, Reduce, Fossil fuel, Air
  
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