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24/7 Wall St. Insights We used data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2022 American Community Survey. The range of deviation from the historic normal temperature among the 50 cities is 4.6 degrees to...
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The unrelenting, record-breaking heat wave gripping much of the U.S. since the beginning of July is not abating. As of Monday, over 146 million Americans were under heat alert, according to Heat.gov....
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More than 100 million people were under heat alerts from coast-to-coast on Saturday as the long-duration heat wave continued. And according to forecasts, a new round of heat will build in the eastern...
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The early July heat wave that has gripped the West has spread throughout the nation. Sure, it’s summer, and it’s hot in summer, but the intensity, duration, and geographic spread of the heat wave...
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Hurricane Beryl, fueled in part by exceptionally warm ocean temperatures, pounded southern Jamaica on Wednesday afternoon, leaving a trail of destruction, including damaged houses and downed power...
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Of all the natural disasters that have ever occurred, the most destructive, expensive, and devastating have happened in the last few years. This is true for every country in the world, and especially...
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Much of the U.S. Midwest and the Northeast are under extreme heat conditions thanks to a heat dome that is sitting over the area. The heat dome is a high-pressure system in the upper atmosphere that...
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In the first eight months of 2023, there were 23 separate billion-dollar climate and weather disasters in the United States, breaking the record of 22 such events in 2020. These extreme weather...
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Extreme weather is on the rise. July 2023 was the hottest month ever recorded. The heat wave caused at least 147 deaths in the United States, many of them in Arizona and Texas. According to the...
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The U.S. is a nation of voracious ice cream eaters – second only to New Zealand in per capita consumption, according to the trade publication Frozen Dessert Supplies – and July is the month in...
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Ice cream is quite possibly the ultimate comfort food, especially in hot weather, so it’s little wonder that we’ve been enjoying it so enthusiastically in recent weeks. (Whether having a famously...
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Scientists estimate that July 4th this year was the hottest day on earth since global temperatures were first recorded around 1880, and possibly the hottest in the past 125,000 years. “Looking to...
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