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… The summer of 2022 brought extreme heat over most of the Eurasian continent and North America. … warming led to extraordinarily long-lasting extreme heat waves. A research team from the Institute of Atmospheric … Chinese Academy of Sciences has reviewed the extreme heat wave events of this summer as well as the progress in related …
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… disasters i.e. floods, glacial melting, drought, and heat waves. The plan includes: situation analysis heat index background to heat waves in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa heatwave early warning & coordination heat wave declaration heat wave surveillance & coordination roles …
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South Asia: Heat wave 2022

… The collection explores causes and the various impacts this heat wave brings on society in South Asia. India and Pakistan are … shortages. To break the cylce, South Asia is turning to heat action plans and resilience measures. … The collection …
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… catastrophe, countries in western Europe experienced a heat wave that resulted in 27,000 dead: 15,000 deaths in France, … critical public health measures that can save life in a heat emergency are early warning systems, the immediate …
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… Assessing geographic variability in heat wave vulnerability forms the basis for planning appropriate … Given several recent deadly heatwaves in India, heat is increasingly being recognized as a public health …
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… Mavalankar, Meredith Connolly and Anjali Jaiswal A deadly heat wave is currently bearing down on communities across India, … The spiking temperatures underscore the need for local heat adaptation plans and early warning systems to reduce the …
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Last year was the hottest year of the decade for some parts of Sri Lanka, while it was the second hottest year after 2016 for most of other parts of the country. The annual mean temperatures calculated from the data taken from 22 weather stations across the country show that 2019 was the hottest year of the decade for nine areas covered by those station…
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… who say their study is the first to show the country’s heat-wave trajectory forecasts a 75 per cent increase in heat waves by 2030, a 189 per cent by 2060 and a 277 per cent …
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… Scorching summer heat is hard to imagine now in mid-winter Paris, but in six … world's athletes arrive for the Olympics, another pounding heat wave would spell trouble for organizers. [...] Organizers of …
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… people died than would normally have been expected as a heat wave gripped Europe’s south this summer, according to … data. Across the Mediterranean, people were brought low by heat of an intensity and duration that is becoming …
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… The heat wave in week 30 of 2019 caused 2,964 deaths. This is nearly … more deaths than during an average summer week. During the heat waves in 2006, the number of additional fatalities per … mortality rates. This year, there was a nationwide heat wave from 22 up to and including 27 July. It was brief but …
… land in spring can have on the intensity of summer heat waves by retaining higher soil moisture levels between … that spring irrigation reduced the intensity of summer heat waves by 0.29°C and 2.5 days, and when combined with … through the year. Though the intensity of extreme heat wave events may be reduced, these climatic challenges will …
… in Quebec have developed a new warning system for heat waves that they say is more precise and better adapted to climate change. Quebec has had a heat-alert system in effect since 2010, but researchers are modifying it because they expect periods of extreme heat will extend beyond the summer months in the future. The …
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… By Vinayak Dewan The death toll from the intense heat that strikes India each year between March and July has … the situation around. Roofs were painted white to reduce heat absorption; state governments adjusted working hours to … [...] … By Vinayak Dewan The death toll from the intense heat that strikes India each year between March and July has …
… The world’s first named heat wave hit Seville, Spain, this week, pushing temperatures past … and earning the most severe tier in the city’s new heat wave ranking system. [...] Zoe is the first named heat

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