Heat Kills. Cold Kills More.

“Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has consistently shown that excessive cold presents a greater threat to life than excessive heat,” reported The Washington Post in 2016. During one five-year period analyzed by the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics, about 31 percent of weather-related deaths in the United States were attributed to “excessive natural heat, heat stroke, [or] sun stroke” but more than twice as many — 63 percent — were attributed to exposure to “excessive natural cold [or] hypothermia.”