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In a study published in 2023, Emma Lawrence at the University of Oxford
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“People who live with mental-health conditions are among the most susceptible to the physical impacts of heat,” says Lawrence.
Key facts
- According to the Met Office, the country’s national weather and climate service, June temperatures peaked at an average 19 °C (66 °F) in England between 1991 and 2020
- In research published earlier this week, Wortzel and his colleagues saw a 2.97% increase in the suicide rate among people in the US aged 15 to 24 for every 1 °C increase in average monthly temperature
- Yesterday, the UK recorded its highest ever June temperature at 36.1 °C (about 97 °F)
- It’s difficult to directly study how a heat wave might affect their thinking, says Catherine Thompson, a cognitive psychologist at Liverpool Hope University
Summary
It’s been hot in London this week. It’s frightening that they are seeing such temperatures in the UK in June. But this week the reporter want to look at what the heat does to their minds and brains. It’s not exhaustion and confusion. Studies have confirmed that as temperatures rise, people seem to get more irritable and more violent.