Hey Congress! Hot enough for you?

A mother feels expels water to refresh their daughter playing in a waterfall during hot weather in Washington, DC. Photography: Larry Downing/Reuters

If you've had the pleasure of spending time in our nation's Capitol this week, feel me: is really rough out there. Report local weather on Monday, he said it hit at 95 degrees, but that it felt like 105, but really wasn't need a weatherman to tell me that. Forecast today said will be wanting to 110 and 103 degrees. So it was not a big surprise that the Weather Channel had called only of Washington, one of the six hottest cities.

The links in the history of Meteorologist Jonathan Erdman Mr. who missed a few weeks; It highlights the fact that the heat is the biggest cause of deaths related to the climate at United States. Last month posted a graph of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration showing that United States were in pace of record for the number and cost of extreme weather events. There have been 575 deaths of weather events of this year, most of the tornadoes in the Southeast and the Middle West. But the heat still kills more people in the United States in an average year, claiming more than 1,500 lives.

The big problem in DC, of course, is humidity, due to the fact that our fair city was built on a swamp. This is what puts us there with cities such as Laredo, Texas, and Yuma, Arizona, experience more days where the actual temperature reaches or exceeds 100. But while DC normally average 1.2 days of 100 degrees with each year, as the band's Capitol time reported Monday, if hits DC 100 on Tuesday, which will be two for 2011, with plenty of summer left to bear.

We had a nice hot summer, at least. I'm supposed to include the mandatory line that any day or time event cannot be attributed directly to climate change, which are long-term trends that matter, blah blah blah. But if care you to listen to the scientists of the climate, we are in for more days of rising heat in the future, not to mention the heat-related deaths. So perhaps this should serve as a good reminder that climate change has fatal consequences, even if legislative DC residents have not felt particularly inspired to deal with this issue of late.

Justin Kenney, director of communications of the NOAA, provides more information about how hot is via Twitter. According to the Agency, only July has seen 349 maximum heat records broken across the country and bound 320, and we are not even in the middle of month. You can view records of temperature here.

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