Heat index reaches 115
With the temperatures outside the Sun building now at 98 degrees, and 52 percent humidity (dew point 77 degrees), the heat index has reached 115 degrees at 12:30 p.m. If you're indoors, working in air conditioning, thank your lucky stars. This is truly dangerous heat and humidity.
It's 101 degrees at the Inner Harbor.
If you have a relative or a neighbor with cardiovascular disease, hypertension, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, dementia or some other chronic condition, please go check on them, or call them and make sure they're okay. Nearly all of the 13 Marylanders who have died this summer from heat-related causes also had underlying conditions that hampered their ability to tolerate and cope with the heat and humidity, and hastened their deaths.
Let's look after each other.
