Study: By 2050, Miami Can Expect The Number Of 105F Or Higher Heat Index Days To Rise Six-Fold

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Enjoy the recent hot spell? You're in luck because the number of days with above-average temperatures is expected to go up between now and 2050.

"We are in a very much upward trend in rising temperatures," Yoca Arditi-Rocha said during a presentation this week in Fort Myers. "In fact, 2018 became one of the hottest years on record. In fact, the last five years have been the hottest on record."

Florida's tourism industry will be impacted by billions of dollars a year, she said. Some plants and wildlife will go extinct, and overall human health will suffer with higher high temperatures.

"The trend in Miami (is that) we've seen the number of days above 90 degrees has gone up," said Arditi-Rocha with The CLEO Institute, a Miami-based nonprofit that focuses on environmental and climate change education. "Since the '70s that trend has continued to go up. The number of days with a heat index of 105 will increase by six-fold by 2050. Think about our labor force, our agriculture industry, our elderly population."

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https://www.naplesnews.com/story/news/environment/2019/02/26/number-hot-days-increase-florida-says-climate-educator/2994458002/

[NickB79]

1. Enjoy the red tides. They'll flourish in such hot water.