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A major heat wave affected the Midwestern United States on August 23 and 24. Prior to the heat wave, 126 million Americans were under heat alerts. [134] At Chicago O'Hare International Airport, temperatures hit 98 °F (37 °C) on August 23, with a heat index reaching 116 °F (47 °C). On August 24, temperatures hit 100 °F (38 °C) at O'Hare ...
A record-breaking heat wave hit Southwestern Asia in late July and early August 2011, with temperatures in Iraq exceeding 49 °C (120 °F), [38] and an "asphalt-melting, earth-parching, brain-scrambling heat of midsummer" in Tbilisi, Georgia. [39]
The 2021 Western North America heat wave was an extreme heat wave that affected much of Western North America from late June through mid-July 2021. [5] The heat wave affected Northern California, Idaho, Western Nevada, Oregon, and Washington in the United States, as well as British Columbia, and in its latter phase, Alberta, Manitoba, the Northwest Territories, Saskatchewan, and Yukon, all in ...
Last year, the U.S. saw the most heat waves — abnormally hot weather lasting more than two days — since 1936. Chicago broke a 1957 temperature record Monday with a high of 97 degrees ...
An "extremely dangerous" heat wave is set to break daily temperature records across Western and Southern states through the holiday weekend, the National Weather Service warned Thursday.
The record-breaking heat began before the calendar flipped to October. Last weekend was part of a sizzling stretch of record-breaking conditions in Las Vegas and Phoenix – two cities where heat ...
A record breaking fourth day would occur on July 17, with temperatures of 101 °F (38 °C). [24] A record high temperature was also tied in Hartford. [25] July 2024 was the hottest calendar month on record in many cities across the western United States, including Las Vegas, Palm Springs, Fresno, Redding, Salem, and San Jose. [26]
Nearly 150 million Americans along the West Coast are bracing for record-breaking heat this weekend.. On the heels of the July 4 holiday, the oppressive heatwave plaguing the western US is ...