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The drought and heat wave conditions led many Midwestern cities to experience record heat. In Kansas City, Missouri, the high temperature was below 90 °F (32 °C) only twice and soared above the century mark (100 °F or 38 °C) for 17 days straight; in Memphis, Tennessee, the temperature reached an all-time high of 108 °F (42 °C) on July 13, 1980, part of a 15-day stretch of temperatures ...
The 2011 North American heat wave was a deadly summer 2011 heat wave that affected the Southern Plains, the Midwestern United States, Eastern Canada, the Northeastern United States, and much of the Eastern Seaboard, and had Heat index/Humidex readings reaching upwards of 131 °F (55 °C).
The National Weather Service issues heat advisories and excessive heat warnings when it expects unusual periods of hot weather. In Canada, heat waves are defined using the daily maximum and minimum temperatures, and in most of the country, the humidex as well, exceeding a regional threshold for two or more days. The threshold in which daily ...
Texas, a state known to be hot, experienced its second-hottest summer on record, falling only behind the summer of 2011. In late June, temperatures in many Lone Star cities exceeded 100 degrees.
As 2022 comes to a close, AccuWeather looks back at unforgettable weather photos that captured the most memorable events of the past 12 months. Across the country, weather events uprooted families ...
Climate change was a major factor behind the hot, dry weather that gave rise to the devastating LA fires, a scientific study has confirmed. It made those weather conditions about 35% more likely ...
The Summer 2012 North American heat wave was one of the most severe heat waves in modern North American history. It resulted in more than 82 heat-related deaths across the United States and Canada, [2] [3] and an additional twenty-two people died in the resultant June 2012 North American derecho.
A morning commuter sits on a bench at the ferry terminal in Jersey City, N.J. looking at the lower Manhattan skyline on a cloudless day in New York City, Thursday, Aug. 18, 2022. (AP Photo/J ...