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Beginning in March 2024, severe heat waves impacted Mexico, the Southern and Western United States, and Central America, leading to dozens of broken temperature records, [1] mass deaths of animals from several threatened species, water shortages requiring rationing, [2] increased forest fires, and over 155 deaths in Mexico with 2,567 people suffering from heat-related ailments. [3]
The map shows risk levels down to the local level and uses Census Bureau data to show the share of the population vulnerable to extreme heat, alongside data from the First Street Foundation, a ...
The European Union's Copernicus and the World Meteorological Organization reported in April 2024 that Europe was Earth's most rapidly warming continent, with temperatures rising at a rate twice as high as the global average rate, and that Europe's 5-year average temperatures were 2.3 °C higher relative to pre-industrial temperatures compared to 1.3 °C for the rest of the world.
The Copernicus Programme reported that 2024 continued 2023's series of record high global average sea surface temperatures. [16]2024 Southeast Asia heat wave. For the first time, in each month in a 12-month period (through June 2024), Earth’s average temperature exceeded 1.50 °C (2.70 °F) above the pre-industrial baseline.
An accompanying map illustrated the spread of the heat wave over a large cluster of midwestern states, with Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin and Missouri feeling the brunt of it ...
The heat map tracks the number and rate of excess emergency room visits on heat days down to the community level and highlights a stark disparity between wealthier, leafier neighborhoods and those ...
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September 6, 2024 at 12:02 PM. 1 / 6. ... The ongoing heat wave is the worst one in Los Angeles in two years, ranking as "extreme" on the AccuWeather HeatWave Severity Index™.