This past Tuesday, a press release was published by the Extreme Heat Resilience Alliance, an organization whose number one priority is to begin naming and ranking heat waves around the world. The EHRA was formed that same day, so usually I wouldn’t think much of something so new…except the press release has already commanded serious attention in the weather community, and the idea of naming heat waves has headlined several national news stories in the past few days. With an open mind, let me explain why that idea would do more harm than good.
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