The most at-risk regions in the world for high-impact heatwaves

Heatwaves are becoming more frequent under climate change and can lead tothousands of excess deaths. Adaptation to extreme weather events oftenoccurs in response to an event, with communities learning fast followingunexpectedly impactful events. Using extreme value statistics, here we showwhere regional temperature records are statistically likely to be exceeded,and therefore communities might be more at-risk.…

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