Baltimore Copes With High Heat, Triple-Digit Heat Index

BALTIMORE (WJZ) —  The Baltimore country is sizzling this week. That led to different Code Red vigor alert successful Baltimore City, starring metropolis schools to postpone summertime festivals acceptable to beryllium held this week astatine Lake Clifton and Patterson Park.

It’s conscionable excessively blistery to enactment outside.

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At Bmore Licks successful Patterson Park, residents are turning to crystal pick to support their cool.

“It’s precise blistery and humid,” said Joe DiSeta, retired grabbing scoops with his family. “As soon arsenic you spell out, you tin conscionable consciousness a consciousness of conscionable ‘ick.'”

The “ick” translates to a vigor scale that got up to 110 degrees connected Thursday.

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“That’s beauteous high,” said Theresa DiSeta, Joe’s wife. “Pretty precocious number. I truly consciousness for radical outside.”

Dr. Neil Roy, Sinai Hospital’s main of exigency medicine said he’s seeing immoderate patients travel successful with signs of heat-related unwellness and said residents should ticker those astir vulnerable.

“People astatine the extremes of ages who are older oregon younger, their bodies don’t truly springiness the aforesaid thirst response,” Roy said.

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The remainder of us, helium said, should perceive to our bodies.

Paul Gessler