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BENI MELLAL, Morocco: In the unrelenting heat of Morocco's Middle Atlas, people slept on rooftops. Hanna Ouhbour also needed shelter, but she was outside the hospital waiting for her diabetic cousin, who was in a room without air conditioning.
There were 21 heat-related deaths at Beni Mellal's main hospital on Wednesday as temperatures soared to 48.3 degrees (118.9 degrees Fahrenheit) in the area of ​​575,000 people, most of whom lacked air conditioning.
“We have no money and no choice,” said 31-year-old unemployed Ouhbour from Kasba Tadla, an even hotter city that some experts say is among the hottest on Earth.
“Most of the deaths were among people suffering from chronic diseases and the elderly, as the high temperatures contributed to the deterioration of their health conditions and led to their deaths,” Kamal Elyansli, the regional director of health, said in a statement.
This is life and death in the heat.
As a warming Earth sizzled through a week with four of the hottest days on record, the world turned its attention to the cold, hard numbers that showed the average daily temperature for the entire planet.
But the 17.16 degrees Celsius (62.8 degrees Fahrenheit) recorded on Monday doesn't tell you how oppressively sticky any particular spot has become at the height of the sunshine and humidity. The thermometer doesn't tell the story of heat that won't just go away at night so people can sleep.
Records are about statistics, keeping score. But people don't feel data. He feels warm.
“We don't need any scientists to tell us what the temperature is outside because our body tells us immediately,” said Humayun Saeed, 35, a roadside fruit seller in Pakistan's cultural capital of Lahore.

Saeed had to go to the hospital twice in June due to heat stroke.
“The situation is much better now because it was not easy to work in May and June due to the heat wave, but I avoided the morning walk,” said Saeed. “I can continue this in August when the temperature drops further.
The heat made Delia, a 38-year-old pregnant woman standing outside a train station in Bucharest, Romania, feel even more uncomfortable. The day was so hot that she was sleepy. With no air conditioning at night, she considered sleeping in her car as a friend.
“I did notice a very large rise in temperature. I think it was the same for everyone. I felt it even more because I'm pregnant,” said Delia, who gave only her first name. “But I guess it wasn't just me. Everyone really felt this.”
Karin Bumbaco, as she describes herself, was in her element, but then it was a little too much when Seattle's day after day was much warmer than normal heat.
“I love science. I love the weather. I have since I was little,” said Bumbaco, deputy state climatologist for Washington. “It's pretty fun to see the daily records being broken. … But in recent years, just experiencing it and actually feeling the heat is getting worse every day.”
“Like this recent stretch we had. I didn't sleep very well. I don't have air conditioning at home,” Bumbaco said. “Each morning I watched the thermostat get a little warmer than the previous warm morning. The house just kept building up heat and I just couldn't wait for it to be over.'
For climatologists around the world, what was an academic exercise on climate change has literally hit home.
“I analyzed these numbers from the cool of my office, but I was also affected by the heat that caused sleepless nights due to warmer urban temperatures,” said Roxy Mathew Koll, a climatologist at the Indian Institute of Tropical. Meteorology in Pune, Maharashtra, which usually has a relatively mild climate.
“My kids come home from school at rush hour exhausted,” Koll said. “Last month, the mother of one of my colleagues died of heatstroke in northern India.

Philip Mote, a climate scientist and dean of the graduate school at Oregon State University, moved to California's Central Valley and its triple-digit summer heat for high school.
“I figured out pretty quickly that I didn't like hot, dry climates,” Mote said. “And that's why I moved to the northwest.
For decades, Mote worked on climate issues from the comfort of Oregon, where people worried that with global warming, the Northwest would be “the last nice place to live in the U.S. and everybody's going to move here and we're going to have overpopulation.”
However, the region was hit by nasty fires in 2020 and a deadly heat wave in 2021, which caused some people to flee what was supposed to be a climate paradise.
In the second week of July, the temperature hit 104 degrees (40 Celsius). As a member of the Mote Masters Rowing Club, he trains on the water on Tuesday and Thursday nights, but this week they decided to just tube the river.
In Boise, Idaho, tubing in the heat, which hovered between 99 and 108 degrees Fahrenheit (37 to 42 degrees Celsius) for 17 days, has become so popular that waits to get into the water are 30 minutes to an hour, John Tullius said. , CEO of Boise River Raft & Tube.
“I think it's been record numbers for the last 10 days in a row,” Tullius said, adding that he worries about his outdoor workers, especially the physical toll on those who pick up the rafts at the end of the trek.
He built a special shade structure for them, added additional workers to lighten the load, and encouraged them to hydrate.
In Denver's city park, the swan-shaped pedalo rental isn't that busy because it's brutally hot outside and those brave souls who venture out have to sit on hot laminate seats.
There is not much shade for the workers, “but we hide in our little shack,” said employee Dominic Prado, 23. “We also have a very powerful fan there, which I like to lift my shirt over to cool off. “