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What you need to know during Severe Weather Awareness Week in 2023
The KHOU 11 Weather Team is keeping you weather smart during a week that brings awareness to dangerous, and potentially deadly, conditions.
HOUSTON — The KHOU 11 Weather Team is here to keep you weather smart during Severe Weather Awareness Week.
The week runs from March 6 to 10 and focuses on a different theme each day. Here’s the breakdown:
- Monday – Heat
- Tuesday – Tornado
- Wednesday – Thunderstorm
- Thursday – Hurricane
- Friday – Flooding
HEAT
Heat ranks as the No. 1 weather-related killer in the United States.
Over the last 30 years, more people have been killed from heat than any other natural disaster, including hurricanes and tornadoes.
Of course, the most attention surrounding heat-related deaths and illness is focused on the summer months.
However, it’s important to realize that even springtime temperatures can be dangerous for sensitive groups. In fact, even with temperatures in the 80s, the inside of vehicles can reach over 100 degrees within minutes.
It is important to realize the signs and symptoms of heat-related illness to treat it before it becomes a medical emergency. Heat exhaustion can be cured by removing an individual from the heat, cooling them off and hydrating them.
Heat stroke is when the body cannot cool itself off anymore and is a medical emergency.