// THE VERGE — MOBILE & WEB
Being a mom is hard — the heat is making it harder
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According to a new study, kids are growing up with an extra month of heat stress thanks to climate change.
According to a new study, kids are growing up with an extra month of heat stress thanks to climate change.
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It’s 8:52 AM and 86 degrees Fahrenheit (30 Celsius) where I live in Southern California. My husband just came back from a morning outing with our four-month-old. “How was the botanic garden?” I ask him. “It was okay. It was just too hot,” he tells me. I didn’t expect us to spend so much of our son’s first summer cooped up inside, hiding from the heat.
As I write this, an extreme heat warning for my area is glaring at me from my phone, effective for at least the next three days. “Dangerously hot conditions with high temperatures up to 110 [degrees Fahrenheit] expected,” my weather app warns me. “Stay in an air-conditioned room, stay out of the sun.”
As I write this, an extreme heat warning for my area is glaring at me from my phone.