{"id":46382,"date":"2026-07-15T12:45:50","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T16:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=46382"},"modified":"2026-07-15T12:45:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T16:45:52","slug":"canadas-new-heat-wave-danger-number-is-26-c-indoors-why-people-over-60-are-especially-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=46382","title":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s new heat wave danger number is 26 C \u2014 indoors. Why people over 60 are especially at risk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com\/thestar.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/4\/9d\/49d95191-3aec-5d07-9b10-2c2f2a5023c7\/6a555bb2829c8.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:211px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Prolonged exposure to temperatures even just a few degrees above room temperature could lead to heat-related illness and even death, experts say.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/life\/why-26c-indoors-is-the-heat-wave-danger-number--not-the-temperature-outside\/article_18a0aa47-bc67-4f8a-9246-7a6e6e6499a5.html\">Canada\u2019s new heat wave danger number is 26 C \u2014 indoors. Why people over 60 are especially at risk<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com\/thestar\/opinion\/contributors\/why-26c-indoors-is-the-heat-wave-danger-number--not-the-temperature-outside\/article_13f94a96-41d2-566a-83fd-9014cc6630fa.html\"><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Canada\u2019s new heat wave danger number is 26 C \u2014 indoors&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[578,48],"class_list":["post-46382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-climate","tag-health","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46382"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46385,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46382\/revisions\/46385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}