#extreme-heat

#extreme-heat

The highest temperature that Jonathan Paul has ever recorded in a London Tube station is about 42 Celsius, or 107.6 Fahrenheit. Paul, a researcher at Royal Holloway, University of London, uses his thermometer-equipped smartphone to take such readings. 42C is the kind of heat that would send someone running to the nearest air-conditioned building. Underground, though, they can't. There's nothing but stifling tunnels and screeching trains down here.

When she did not return, friends raised the alarm. A search team found her the next day, less than 100 yards (91 metres) from the parking lot. According to the infrared thermometer used by the death investigator at the scene, Hannah's body registered 142F (61C) after a day in the desert sun. Inside her backpack were three empty water bottles, packets of fruit snacks, sunscreen and a fully charged portable phone battery. Her phone, however, had no power. Heat exposure killed Moody a week before her 32nd birthday.

Coastlines around the world are threatened by flooding, erosion, and saltwater incursions into wells and community water supplies. In the United States, the Southeast and Northeast are most susceptible to hurricane and storm surge flooding, as well as losing freshwater supplies due to saltwater incursion as the sea rises. In the West, coastal erosion, including the loss of homes on bluffs above Pacific beaches, and water supply issues are the primary concerns facing homeowners who live near the ocean.

Residents of the Western U.S. sweltered in a heat wave Saturday that hospitalized some people, with temperatures forecast to hit dangerous levels throughout the weekend in Washington, Oregon, Southern California, Nevada and Arizona. About 1.2 million people were under extreme heat risk, meaning temperatures were expected to stay dangerously high with no relief overnight. The largest area under the warning was around Tucson, Arizona, where the National Weather Service forecast highs between 102 and 107 degrees Fahrenheit (39 and 42 degrees Celsius).

The association said that from the beginning of June to at least the end of August, the opening hours of the Colosseum area should run from 7am to 8.15pm. For three years, we've been asking for the opening of the whole park to be brought forward to 7am and for closing to be postponed by an hour, said AGTA. These changes would benefit the public health of everyone: visitors, guides and other workers.

"I don't think it's the product," says Brian Lowit, the owner of Mount Desert Island Ice Cream in Mount Pleasant. "People are just like, 'I'll stay cooler by staying in my house.'"

On July 23 more than 35 million people are at a major or extreme risk of heat effects, according to the National Weather Service.

Despite the sweltering heat today in Portland, with temperatures nearing 100, residents are advised to keep cool, as not everyone is equipped for such weather.

When extreme heat hits the Boston area, emergency departments are packed with people who are dehydrated, experiencing kidney or heart problems, or are having heat cramps. The stress of the heat exacerbates those conditions, and we'll see a 10 percent jump of people in the emergency department not just for heat illness, but also weakness or syncope or other conditions due to the heat.

Starting on Saturday June 21, nearly 20 extreme-weather records were broken in a single day, including in Mitchell, SD, which broke its daily high when temperatures climbed to 104 degrees.

Despite an extreme heat warning, BROOKLYNNYC Public Schools will remain open, with temperatures expected to reach 100F and heat indexes up to 105F.

The National Weather Service warns that a dangerous heat wave, combined with high humidity, will blanket much of the central and eastern US, with temperatures possible above 100°F.

I actually watched him. He drank a bunch of water. I mean a bunch, and then he went right out and got rid of it.