Heat in Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Heat October 4, 2023 · Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Death

What the National Weather Service wrote

On an unseasonably warm afternoon with highs in the low to mid 80s, an infant left unattended in a car in West Hempfield Township, Lancaster County was found dead from asphyxia due to hyperthermia.

The wider storm

High temperatures in the low to mid 80s in the Lower Susquehanna Valley on October 4, 2023 were 10 to 15 degrees above normal for early October. That afternoon, an infant left unattended in a car in West Hempfield Township, Lancaster County was found dead from asphyxia due to hyperthermia.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1129931. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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