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"It's awful." Residents forced to evacuate wildfires amid suffocating heat wave: 'We need to be looking for shade constantly' first appeared on The Cool Down.
Chicago heat wave, which took place 30 years ago this week, remains the Chicago area's deadliest weather disaster.Heat ...
Thursday marks the last day of oppressive heat, but Thursday’s thunderstorms bring muggy air that can turn dangerous for some ...
Heat alerts extend nearly statewide with high dew points making it feel closer to the mid-90s or slightly higher across the ...
Chicago commemorates the 1995 Heat Wave victims and honors WWII hero Emilio Aguirre with initiatives for future heat ...
For DesiPDX, a food cart on North Mississippi Avenue, it’s just the opposite. Deepac Saxena, the owner, said temperatures ...
The Puget Sound region is expected to warm up into the lower-90s Wednesday, with the rest of the week following suit.
A day before a heat wave was set to envelop the Willamette Valley, over 1,000 EWEB customers lost power. EWEB spokesperson ...
Emergency cooling centers in Bergen County will open on Tuesday for the upcoming heat wave that is expected to bring humid, ...
The heat advisory includes parts of Delaware, Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut and New Jersey, where two people died in ...
Extreme temperatures during the summer of 1995 caught Chicago off guard. A relentless heat wave settled over the city, and with no clear emergency plan, the response fell dangerously short. More than ...
From July 12 to 15 in 1995, the heat index soared above 120 degrees, killing 739 people in the deadliest natural disaster in ...