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Displaying 10 of about 298 results… to climate-change-related 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 and responsibilities … …
… The summer of 2022 brought extreme heat over most of the Eurasian continent and North America. This abnormal warming led to extraordinarily long-lasting extreme heat waves. A research team from the Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has reviewed the extreme heat wave events of this summer as well as the progress in related studies in recent years, …
… The science Previous research has found that heat waves and urban heat island effects reinforce each other’s effects. These heat islands are … buildings to the urban environment increases by as much as 20 percent during a heat wave. Most of this heat is waste heat from air conditioning. The study’s results will …
… The world’s first named heat wave hit Seville, Spain, this week, pushing temperatures past 110 degrees Fahrenheit and earning the most severe tier in the city’s new heat wave ranking system. [...] Zoe is the first named heat wave to hit Seville since …
… If you looked at the heat index during this summer’s sticky heat waves and thought, “It sure feels hotter!,” you may be right. An analysis by … in a wide swath, from the Great Lakes south to Louisiana. During the July 1995 heat wave in Chicago, for example, which killed at least 465 people, the maximum heat index …
… This summer is coming in hot. The New York Times reports that a heat wave caused record-high temperatures this weekend in 16 cities from the Southwest to … is traveling east to the Great Lakes, with more than 100 million Americans under heat alerts, according to the Washington Post. Across large swaths of the country, …
… [...] To capture the real impact of a heat wave, the National Weather Service uses its heat index. It portrays what the temperature and humidity really "feel like" to the …
… Urbanization and human-caused climate changes have led to increases in heat events around the world. For example, in July 2012, an extreme heat wave hit the Chicago area, causing temperatures to skyrocket to 40°C (104°F) and …
… The ongoing drought was already hitting electricity generation. A looming heat wave this Labor Day weekend might threaten Western states’ power grids and their … already warning of rotating blackouts. California has already seen historical heat this week, fueling wildfires that have spurred evacuations and closed a section …
… South Asia has been suffering an unprecedented heat wave, with March 2022 the hottest on record in India. There is growing evidence that rising heat is disproportionately affecting women — one study in India found they were …