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The heat wave resulted in a new record high temperature for October at 29.9 °C (85.8 °F) ... In late June 2022, Japan saw the worst heatwave in 150 years.
The 1936 North American heat wave was one of the most severe heat waves in the modern history of North America. It took place in the middle of the Great Depression and Dust Bowl of the 1930s and caused more than 5,000 deaths. Many state and city record high temperatures set during the 1936 heat wave stood until the 2012 North American heat wave.
State officials said it was the worst heat wave to hit Northern and Southern California simultaneously in 57 years. [25] Front-page newspaper coverage described some individual deaths. [26] By July 29, the mounting death toll left the coroner's office in Fresno overwhelmed and double-stacking bodies. [27]
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 ...
About a month after Shanghai, the most populated city in China, endured a dangerous heat wave that sent the mercury to over 100 degrees Fahrenheit, the intense heat has shifted west into central ...
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 .
The impending heat wave in Chicago is predicted to be "strong," on par with the worst heat wave in the city in 2023, which took place on August. 22-24, and worse than the only heat wave in 2022 ...
1911 France heat wave France: 1911 4. 24,501 2022 European heatwaves: Europe 2022 5. 9,500 1901 eastern United States heat wave: United States 1901 6. 5,000–10,000 1988–1990 North American drought: United States 1988 7. 3,951 2019 European heatwaves: Europe 2019 8. 3,418 [56] 2006 European heatwave: 2006 9. 2,541 [56] 1998 Indian heat wave ...