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The heatwave that baked parts of the Bay Area in triple digits on Thursday ushered in record-breaking and record-tying temperatures across the region for a second day straight.
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Dozens of hikers set out for the summit of Piestewa Peak on a July evening, their flashlights dancing in the dark. “You feeling O.K.?” Trevor Plautz, a park ranger, asked two women, one of whom had stumbled and was breathing hard.
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Parts of Oklahoma and Texas are now in drought.This drought has developed rapidly enough to be considered a flash drought.Some locations had one of their driest Julys on record, sending topsoil moisture plummeting.An ongoing heat wave, and typical August heat, may
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The heat index hit 100 degrees at 6 a.m. Thursday in Galveston, Tex. And, it didn’t drop below that until 10 p.m. Friday night. It’s part of a larger heat wave across the Deep South and Southern Plains that shows no signs of letting up through at least next week.
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But this heat wave already set some all-time hottest daily low temperature records Thursday in both Galveston (86 degrees) and Palacios, Texas (87 degrees).
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California’s wildfire season is starting late this year, according to fire scientist Tom Rolinski, who monitors fuel conditions for Southern California Edison. But the late start is no indication of a mild fire season ahead.
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Alaska has seen the lowest levels of sea ice ever this summer as record temperatures and wildfires hit the region with some areas completely ice free — an event which has never occurred so early in the year and has ramifications for the arctic climate and the Earth as a whole.
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While the worst of this summer's heat seems to have passed in the U.S. and Europe, Japan is in the throes of a dangerous heat wave.
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The Big U.S. Wet of 2018-19 went on cruise control in July, but the year so far managed to hang on as the nation’s wettest calendar year to date in records going back more than a century, NOAA reported on Wednesday.
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Climate science at a glance
Human-caused climate change is increasing wildfire activity
