What Makes Heat So Hard to Cover?
I live in Las Vegas, where it’s taken for granted that the searing-hot summers are miserable at best and deadly at worst. You look at the astonishing number in the forecast and just move on, doing what you can to avoid the heat. As a resident of this city, I worry about being lulled into a misplaced sense of normalcy; as a reporter who often writes about climate, I struggle to articulate how dire the situation is. Of all the climate disasters we face, heat is the most urgent, and its day-to-day effects are also the trickiest to talk about.
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