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United States. Southern Texas was struck with a heatwave starting on 25 May 2024, leading to numerous record breaking high temperatures recorded on 26 May 2024 in Del Rio at 112 °F (44.4 °C), Brownsville at 98 °F (36.7 °C) tied with the prior record set in 1928, and McAllen at 103 °F (39.4 °C). [9] The heatwave also broke temperature high ...
Federal forecasters say a high-pressure dome over the West is expanding and moving south and east, spreading sizzling temperatures from the Pacific Northwest to the South for much of the first ...
On May 21, 2022, heat became prevalent in the Mid-Atlantic, resulting in a near record hot Preakness Stakes horse race, with Baltimore and Philadelphia having temperatures of 95 °F (35 °C), Washington DC at 92 °F (33 °C), and New York City at 90 °F (32 °C). [ 6] This heat persisted into May 22, when Dulles International Airport hit 91 °F ...
June 17, 2024 at 3:25 PM. The summer is coming in hot: As Thursday's solstice approaches, a heat wave is hitting the East Coast and Midwest and expected to last through at least Friday. Almost 66 ...
Updated June 21, 2024 at 9:07 AM. There was no letup from the sweltering heat wave frazzling much of the eastern United States on Friday, with some 90 million Americans under heat alerts ...
A heat wave [1] or heatwave, [2] sometimes described as extreme heat, is a period of abnormally hot weather. [3]: 2911 Definitions vary but are similar. [4] A heat wave is usually measured relative to the usual climate in the area and to normal temperatures for the season.
A slow-moving and potentially record-setting heat wave is spreading across the Western U.S., the National Weather Service said, sending many residents in search of a cool haven from the ...
Main article: Heat waves of 2015. Between April and May 2015, a heat wave occurred in India, killing more than 2,200 people in that country's different geographical regions. Daytime temperatures hovered between 45 and 47 °C (113 and 117 °F) in parts of two states over the weekend, 3–7 °C (5.4–12.6 °F) above normal.