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RISHeat Watch/Warning Systems Save Lives: Estimated Costs and Benefits for Philadelphia 1995–98
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Hot Weather?Health Watch/Warning System was initiated in 1995 to alert the city's population to take precautionary actions when hot weather posed risks to health. The number of lives saved ...
The Philadelphia Hot Weather-Health Watch/Warning System: Development and Application, Summer 1995
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Last summer, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, instituted a new Hot Weather-Health Watch/Warning System (PWWS) to alert the city's residents of potentially oppressive weather situations that could negatively affect health. In ...