The weeklongheat wave that bakedmost of the U.S. Southwest in temperatures well into triple digits is on its last legs, but forecasters are still urging people to be cautious as there will be little relief from the warm weather until monsoon thunderstorms begin to kick in, likely in July....
The increase in deaths due to these waves may be greater than that predicted by extreme temperatures alone. We examined cold and heat waves in 99 US cities for 14 years (1987鈥 2000) and investigated how the risk of death depended on the temperature threshold used to define a wave, and ...
"This analysis has given us a really good general picture of how shellfish were impacted by the heat wave, but we know this isn't even the full story," said lead author Wendel Raymond, a research scientist at the University of Washington Friday Harbor Laboratories.■...
AP AUDIO: More than 70 million people in the US are under heat alerts. Go indoors and hydrate AP correspondent Julie Walker reports on severe weather, with a heat wave affecting millions, Gulf rain and Rockies snow. Meanwhile, a fresh batch of tropical moisture was bringing an increasing thre...
manner of the deaths resulting from the 1995 Chicago heat wave. Meteorologists and medical scientists have been unable to account for the scale of the trauma, and political officials have puzzled over the sources of the city's vulnerability. In Heat Wave, Eric Klinenberg takes us inside the ...
The July heat wave shimmering across the United States is generating everything from prime-time news coverage to contests for describing just how hot it really is. More than a third of the US is experiencing heat indexes of more than 100 degrees Fahrenheit, according to the National Weather ...
1US Heat Wave-The Federal Emergency Man agement Agency, FEMA, warns that the heat wave that threatens to break records in the United States has to be taken seriously.US authorities are warning about the dangers of an intense heat wave that is affecting much of the country and ask people ...
Another heat wave is set to roast the U.S. this weekend. For the fourth time in five weeks, soaring temperatures will hit the Western U.S. as well as parts of Canada. Just this week, Death Valley, California hit 56°C, or about 134°F, the hottest place ever...
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A dangerous heat wave began descending on the US Friday, and the extreme heat is expected to continue this weekend. Our live coverage has ended, but you can keep tracking the heat wave here. Here’s what you need to know about the heat: It’s widespread: Over the next few days,...