Severe weather conditions have become constant. Cyclones, storms, heatwaves, floods, and droughts continue to put critical infrastructure, homes, livelihoods, and lives at risk in the U.S. and around the world.
Heat waves and droughts are the second-deadliest weather category, causing critical infrastructure instability, power line inefficiency, thermal sagging, and overloaded transformers that can lead to load shedding or automatically shut down critical systems. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) recorded 2023 as “the fifth-warmest year in the 129-year record for the country as a whole.”
Nationwide, heat waves turning into heat domes are becoming annual occurrences as the frequency of high-temperature days and peak heat conditions rise year over year.