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It's wet-bulb Wednesday! Read a news story from NCICS and a blog post from the NC State Climate Office—they celebrate a journal article on wet-bulb globe temperature from researchers at both institutions. bit.ly/ncicswbgt2025 climate.ncsu.edu/blog/2025/07/how-heat-stress-and-monitoring-is-changing-in-nc/
A New Approach to Measuring Extreme Heat :: North Carolina Institute for Climate Studies
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A black globe thermometer (center) and a humidity and temperature probe (left) at the NC State Climate Office’s ECONet station at Jockeys Ridge State Park. Photo courtesy of the North Carolina State...0 CommentsComment on Facebook
As extreme heat becomes more common, how do you keep people safe? The best metric for heat stress is wet-bulb globe temperature (WBGT), which takes into account not only temperature and humidity but also sunlight and wind. The problem is that it generally requires specialized instruments not found at most weather stations. In an article in the Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, NCICS’s Kyle Wodzicki and colleagues take a different approach, finding the best way to estimate WBGT using widely available weather variables. They then used that estimation technique to study trends in WBGT over the past seven decades—and found alarming evidence that climate change is increasing the health risks of extreme heat in the Southeast.
A New Approach to Measuring Extreme Heat :: North Carolina Institute for Climate Studies
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A black globe thermometer (center) and a humidity and temperature probe (left) at the NC State Climate Office’s ECONet station at Jockeys Ridge State Park. Photo courtesy of the North Carolina State...2 CommentsComment on Facebook