Right now, this is a firestorm in a heat wave not unlike many others I have seen.
But when a heat wave pushed temperatures into the lower 90s Fahrenheit, organizers and local officials postponed the race until another day.
In some hospitals, lifesaving equipment dates back to the Soviet era, and air conditioning is a rarity even after 11, 000 Muscovites died in a heat wave last year.
It does not help that India is reeling under a heat wave that has claimed some 250 lives, half in Rajasthan (the state where India's nuclear tests took place).
It is more likely that cycling combined with the dehydrating effects of a ten-hour plane trip plus a heat wave threw his electrolytes out of balance and triggered an event.
Sears, for example, has developed a response model based on weather, e.g. targeted emails on window AC units during a heat wave targeted at relevant zip codes 3-5 days after a heat wave.
Global food prices have jumped in recent months due to volatile and extreme weather conditions, particularly due to a drought in the US and a heat wave in some parts of Eastern Europe.
We had a scorcher in Philadelphia today with temps hitting nearly 100 degrees (I think the official high was 96 degrees), marking the end (we hope) of a heat wave that saw schools close early.
This cool-down follows a heat wave that roasted much of the country for more than a week and contributed to dozens of heat-related deaths, including 18 in Maryland and 10 in Virginia, according to state officials.
Temperatures in Germany have been in the 80s thanks to a heat wave and the hearing between the two technology giants over design rights to their respective tablet computers had to take a few breaks this afternoon.
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The cool-down follows a heat wave that roasted much of the country for more than a week and comes as the National Climatic Data Center reported the mainland United States has experienced the warmest 12 months since record-keeping began in 1895.
Studies of weather-related mortality have found that with heat-related deaths there tends to be a significant level of death "displacement" - put bluntly those who were likely to die anyway simply died sooner, so the period after a heat wave tends to see fewer than average deaths.
In Delhi, the national capital, a recent heat wave compelled the government to mandate early shuttering of stores and a ban on home air-conditioner use until after 9 p.m.
Drought: a nationwide heat wave that broke 3, 215 high temperature daily records this past June.
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The cause was a rolling brownout, due to a California heat wave and excessive use of air conditioning.
The fourth Wednesday of July 2005 was the fifteenth day of a searing heat wave in the Northeast.
As parts of Europe are engulfed by a brutal heat wave this summer, it makes one wonder: Who's getting it the worst?
Australia has been gripped by a summer heat wave with near-record temperatures and the action of court is promising to be just as hot.
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At 27, Watkins brings refreshing youth and innocence to a song sung from the perspective of a grizzled barge-worker: Only "a fruit jar full of iced tea" and "a half a day off with pay" provide relief to a lingering heat wave.
The assessment came with a warning: Operating procedures are available to maintain power in the unlikely event that a combination of severe conditions a power outage and delayed transmission projects occur at the same time as a prolonged heat wave with high humidity that keeps air conditioners running nearly non-stop.
Based on the Phoenix lander, the craft is tasked with giving us a peek beneath the planet's surface, armed with tools that include a geodetic instrument from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which will be used to calculate Mars' rotation axis, a seismic wave sensor and a subsurface heat probe, to measure the planet's internal temperature.
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Most are pulling 12-hour (7 a.m. to 7 p.m.) shifts during a record-setting heat wave.
As morning works its way westward around the planet, so does a wave of heat-expanded atmosphere, known as a thermal tide.
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We have always had huge day-to-day and year-to-year variations in our weather, and we always will do, and a couple of cold winters are no more evidence that climate change has stopped than a single summer heat-wave proves that global warming is happening.
Millions in the central and eastern United States who experienced the latest heat wave got somewhat of a reprieve Monday.
The report concludes that global warming favours the spread of disease especially if that warming leads to extreme weather events like Hurricane Katrina or the killer heat wave that struck France a few summers ago.
In the first wave, Bush had a double-digit lead, but by the final wave of polling, the race had become a dead heat, indicating that the president's momentum had eroded.
The key may lie in the phrase "unslakeable thirsting in the backyard" in the last verse. (Yes, "unslakeable, " as in "insatiable, " one example of Veirs' idiosyncratic use of language.) She's not crass enough to spell it out so explicitly, but she's equating emotional longing with heat-wave dehydration, in a wonderfully subtle way.
Intel has warned that if the heat wave continues, the guts of a PC will one day generate the same heat--10, 800 degrees--as the surface of the sun.
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