More than 400 locations across the United States reached record-breaking temperatures last week. During that same span, only about 100 areas saw record-breaking lows.
While this 4-1 record ratio can mainly be attributed to this week's heat wave, it doesn't stray too far from the 2-1 ratio of record highs and lows that we've seen over the past decade in the US.Weather variability can cause this ratio to change from year to year, such as in 2012, when records highs out numbered lows by a staggering 6-to-1 -- but the next year saw extreme highs and lows around the same pace.
According to the Fourth National Climate Assessment for the US, the economic costs of climate change could reach hundreds of billions of dollars annually. The Southeast alone will probably lose over a half a billion labor hours by 2100 due to extreme heat.
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