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The resulting breach flooded basements, facilities and the underground Chicago Pedway throughout the Chicago Loop with an estimated 250 million US gallons (1,000,000 m 3) of water. [1] The remediation lasted for weeks, and cost about $2 billion in 1992 dollars, equivalent to $4.34 billion in 2023.
Canada’s wildfire season this year is the worst on record, with around 29,000 square miles burning in eastern and western Canada, which is greater than the combined area that burned in 2016 ...
The July 1995 Chicago heat wave led to 739 heat-related deaths in Chicago over a period of five days. [1] Most of the victims of the heat wave were elderly poor residents of the city, who did not have air conditioning , or had air conditioning but could not afford to turn it on, and did not open windows or sleep outside for fear of crime. [ 2 ]
The January 2024 version of the WHO database contains results of ambient (outdoor) air pollution monitoring from almost 5,390 towns and cities in 63 countries. Air quality in the database is represented by the annual mean concentration of particulate matter (PM10 and PM2.5, i.e. particles smaller than 10 or 2.5 micrometers, respectively). [1 ...
The Environmental Protection Agency’s AirNow.gov site showed parts of Illinois, lower Michigan and southern Wisconsin had the worst air quality in the U.S. on Tuesday afternoon, and Chicago ...
Zachary Yack, a meteorologist with Chicago’s National Weather Service, said temperatures are running about 10 to 15 degrees higher than normal, which in late August is in the low to mid 80s.
Highest air pressure ever recorded [above 750 meters (2,461 feet)]: 1084.8 hPa (32.03 inHg); Tosontsengel, Zavkhan, Mongolia, 19 December 2001. [333] This is the equivalent sea-level pressure ; Tosontsengel is located at 1,300 metres (4,300 ft) above sea level.
The smoke from those fires created hazardous conditions in New York City earlier this month, when the metropolis’s Air Quality Index spiked to 405, shattering the previous record of 279 set in 1981.