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Honolulu, Hawaii, has experienced a string of record-breaking high temperatures since mid-May, including a tie of its all-time June high temperature earlier this month.
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I was born in Thame, Nepal, around 1960. I’m not exactly sure what year. When I was 12 years old, my father passed away.
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Freaky weather conditions unleashed by climate change and “never seen before” in Utah’s highlands are making wildfires more difficult and dangerous to control because fire managers’ experience is becoming increasingly irrelevant for predicting the behavior of blazes.
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US Forest Service and Interior Department officials warned senators Thursday that the upcoming wildfire season would be worse than last year's, which left dozens of people dead in California, saying that "if we're lucky, this year will simply be a challenging one."
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With Arctic temperatures running well above average in May, sea ice in the region continued its long-term decline, finishing with the second lowest extent for the month.And since then, things have gotten worse.
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Monday and Tuesday saw highs of 109 and 108 degrees, respectively, in Phoenix.
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South Texas is searing in an oppressive heat wave that is sending temperatures into the triple digits, already topping one all-time June record and pushing heat indices above 120 degrees in some locations.
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Climate science at a glance
Extreme heat is among the most obvious and well documented effects of climate change.
The signal of climate change is especially clear in the western United States where a formal attribution study has made the link.
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Expectations of unusually high temperatures and dry, gusty winds across parts of the northern Bay Area this weekend prompted Pacific Gas and Electric Co. to shut down power to about 1,600 customers Saturday morning as a safety precaution....
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In April, the U.S. set a record for the wettest 12 month period in history. According to new government data, that record lasted all of a month.
