The Effect of the 1995 Heat Wave in Chicago on All|Cause and ...

The Effect of the 1995 Heat Wave in Chicago on All-Cause and ...

The effect of the 1995 heat wave in Chicago on all-cause and cause-specific mortality. Reinhard Kaiser.

The effect of the 1995 heat wave in Chicago on all-cause ... - PubMed

The 1995 Chicago heat wave substantially effected all-cause and cause-specific mortality, but mortality displacement was limited.

The Effect of the 1995 Heat Wave in Chicago on All-Cause and ...

The 1995 Chicago heat wave substantially effected all-cause and cause-specific mortality, but mortality displacement was limited. Mortality risks and ...

The 1995 Heat Wave in Chicago, Illinois State Climatologist Office ...

The heat wave in July 1995 in Chicago was one of the worst weather-related disasters in Illinois history with over 700 deaths over a 5-day period.

Impacts and Responses to the 1995 Heat Wave: A Call to Action in

The short but intense heat wave in mid-July 1995 caused 830 deaths nationally, with 525 of these deaths in Chicago. Many of the dead were elderly.

The Effect of the 1995 Heat Wave in Chicago on All-Cause and ...

RR for all-cause mortality on the day with peak mortality was 1.74 (95% confidence interval=1.67, 1.81). Risk of heat-related death was ...

Historic July 12-15, 1995 Heat Wave - National Weather Service

July 12-15, 1995, was dominated by an unseasonably hot and humid air mass that was slow to move out of the Midwest. An abnormal upper-level ridge and a dome of ...

Chicago Learned Climate Lessons from Its Deadly 1995 Heat Wave

By the end of the week, 735 more victims—mostly elderly and poor—succumbed to unbearable heat and humidity, making the 1995 Chicago heat wave ...

Climate change, heat waves, and mortality projections for Chicago

During the 1995 heat wave, 739 “excess” deaths were recorded (Semenza et al., 1999). Initially, 514 of these were classified as heat-related (Whitman et al., ...

During July 12-16, 1995, Chicago experienced unusually high maximum daily temperatures, ranging from 93 F to 104 F (33.9 C to 40.0 C). On July 13, the heat ...

Dying Alone in the Heat Wave, an interview with Eric Klinenberg

The heat made the city's roads buckle. Train rails warped, causing long commuter and freight delays. City workers watered bridges to prevent them from locking ...

The effect of the 1995 heat wave in Chicago on all-cause and

CONCLUSIONS: The 1995 Chicago heat wave substantially effected all-cause and cause-specific mortality, but mortality displacement was limited. Mortality risks ...

Chicago's Deadly 1995 Heat Wave: An Oral History

The death toll ultimately numbered an estimated 739. Most victims were elderly and infirm and lived in the city's poorest neighborhoods: ...

The 1995 Chicago Heat Wave: How Likely Is a Recurrence? in

The deadly heat wave of July 1995 that affected much of the U.S. midwest, most notably Chicago, Illinois, has been put into historical perspective.

1995 Chicago heat wave - Wikipedia

The July 1995 Chicago heat wave led to 739 heat-related deaths in Chicago over a period of five days. Most of the victims of the heat wave were elderly poor ...

Mortality in Chicago Attributed to the July 1995 Heat Wave

The corresponding 1992 to 1994 rate ratio for all causes was 1.91 (P < .001, 95%. CI = 1.85, 1.96). Table 1 also shows the age and race/ethnicity distributions ...

During the summer heat wave of 1995 in Chicago, anything that facilitated social contact, even membership in a social club or owning a pet, was ...

Chicago 1995 Heat Wave Still Haunts EJ Communities - NRDC

During the heat wave, 739 people died over the course of five days; most were poor, elderly, and African American. At the time, people weren't ...

A heat wave killed hundreds in Chicago nearly 30 years ago

Unprecedented heat and humidity plunged the city into crisis, with temperatures that peaked at 106 degrees and humidity that made it feel as hot as 120.

Lessons of Deadly 1995 Heat Wave Echo in 2020 Chicago

Twenty-five years ago, one of the deadliest events in Chicago history slowly unfolded: 739 Chicagoans — many of them poor, elderly and Black ...