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Beni Mellal, Morocco: In the unbearable heat of Morocco's Middle Atlas, people sleep on rooftops. Hannah Ohbor also needed refuge, but she was outside a hospital waiting for her diabetic brother in an unair-conditioned room.
On Wednesday, 21 people died from the heat in the area of ​​575,000 people, most of which lack air conditioning, as temperatures reached 48.3 degrees (118.9 degrees Fahrenheit) at the main hospital in Beni Mellal.
“We don't have money and we don't have options,” said Ohbor, a 31-year-old unemployed woman from Kasbah Tadla, an even warmer city that some experts say is the hottest on Earth.
“Most of those who died were chronically ill and the elderly, as high temperatures worsened their health conditions and led to their deaths,” Health Regional Director Kamal Ilansali said in a statement.
It's life and death in summer.
As a warming Earth measures its four hottest days in a week, the world focuses on the cold, hard numbers that show average daily temperatures for the entire planet.
But Monday's reading of 17.16 degrees Celsius (62.8 degrees Fahrenheit) did not indicate how oppressively any one particular spot was stuck in the extremes of sun and humidity. A thermometer doesn't tell a story of warmth that doesn't go away at night so people can sleep.
Records are about statistics, keeping score. But people don't realize the data. They feel the heat.
“We don't need a scientist to tell us what the temperature is outside,” said Humayun Saeed, 35, a roadside fruit vendor in Lahore, Pakistan's cultural capital.

Saeed had to go to the hospital twice in June due to heatstroke.
Saeed said, 'As it is not easy to work in the months of May and June due to the heat wave, the situation is very good now, but I am avoiding the morning walk. “I may resume it in August when the temperature drops further.”
Delia, a 38-year-old pregnant woman standing outside the train station in Bucharest, Romania, was feeling more uncomfortable due to the heat. It was so hot during the day that she fell asleep. With no air conditioning at night, he assumed the same as a friend who slept in his car.
“I really noticed a very big increase in temperature. I think it was the same for everyone. I felt it more because I'm pregnant,” said Delia, who provided only her first name. “But I guess it wasn't just me. Actually everyone felt it.”
Self-described weather nerd Karin Bumba was in her element, but then it escalated a bit when Seattle had a hotter-than-normal summer later in the day.
“I love science. I love weather. I have since I was a kid,” said Bumbako, Washington's deputy state meteorologist. “It's fun to see the daily records being broken. But in recent years it's become more and more difficult to just live through it and actually feel the heat on a day-to-day basis. has been miserable.
“Like this last stretch we did. I wasn't sleeping well. I don't have AC in my house,” Bumbako said. Can't wait.”
For climate scientists around the world, what was an academic exercise about climate change literally hit home.
“I have been analyzing these numbers from the cool of my office, but the heat is starting to affect me too, with warm urban temperatures causing sleepless nights,” said Roxy Mathew Cole, a climate scientist at the Indian Institute of Tropical Climates. Meteorology in Pune, Maharashtra, which generally has a relatively mild climate.
“My kids come home from school when they're tired,” said Cole. “Last month, a colleague's mother died of heatstroke in northern India.”

Philip Mote, a climate scientist and dean of Oregon State University's graduate school, moved to California's Central Valley and its triple-digit summer heat in junior high.
“I quickly learned that I don't like hot, dry weather,” Mote said. “And so I moved to the Northwest.”
For decades, Mote worked on climate issues from the comfort of Oregon, where people feared that with global warming the Northwest would be “the last good place to live in America and everybody would move here and we'd have overpopulation.”
But the region was hit by devastating fires in 2020 and a deadly heat wave in 2021, forcing some people to flee what is considered a climate haven.
In the second week of July, the temperature reached 104 degrees (40 Celsius). As a member of the Masters Rowing Club, Mote practices on the water on Tuesday and Thursday evenings, but this week they decided to float down the river in a tube.
Tubing has become so popular in Boise, Idaho, where temperatures range between 99 and 108 degrees Fahrenheit (37 to 42 degrees Celsius) for 17 days that there are 30-minute to an hour waits to get in the water, John Tullius said. , general manager for Boise River Raft & Tube.
“I think it's been consistently record numbers for the last 10 days,” Tullius said, adding that he worries about his outdoor workers, especially the physical toll on those who raise the rafts at the end of the trek.
He built special shade structures for them, added more workers to lighten the load and asked them to hydrate.
In Denver's City Park, a swan-shaped pedal boat rental shop isn't that busy because it's so hot outside and the brave souls who venture outside have to sit on the heated fiberglass seats.
There's not much shade for the workers, “but we hide in our little window,” says employee Dominique Prado, 23. “We also have a very strong fan in there that I like to lift my shirt up to cool off.”