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More Americans Living In Areas With More Extreme Summer Heat Days

This may not be a surprise to Valley residents dealing with high temps in the upper 90s a week before Halloween, but new research shows more than three quarters of the U.S. population lives in counties with an average of more than nine extreme summer heat days. The data are from 2007 to 2016.

The Natural Resources Defense Council has mapped these extreme days, and with me to talk about what they found is Kim Knowlton, senior scientist and deputy director of the NRDC Science Center.

Mark Brodie is a co-host of The Show, KJZZ’s locally produced news magazine. Since starting at KJZZ in 2002, Brodie has been a host, reporter and producer, including several years covering the Arizona Legislature, based at the Capitol.