The weather is much less hospitable in most of the rest of the United States: this summer's heat-wave took 100 lives in Texas, for example.
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.
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.
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.
Most are pulling 12-hour (7 a.m. to 7 p.m.) shifts during a record-setting heat wave.
But the earth itself radiating energy outwards in the form of long-wave heat rays.
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.
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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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.
The heat wave resulted in the fourth-warmest July on record for the United States.
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Millions of people were left in the dark, with no power, no telephones, no internet, and no air-conditioning during the worst heat wave in years.
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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.
Cities across the mid-Atlantic have prepared for the anticipated heat wave by designating cooling centers and advising residents on how to remain safe.
The power has gone south to cool off the United States' north-east, which baked in July's 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.
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.
Some are saying that the heat wave sweeping across the U.S. is driving people into cool, air-conditioned theaters, and in a poll posted yesterday, 59% of readers voted that the heat does, in fact, make them more likely to go to the theater.
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.
The recent heat wave that has fried much of the country, ruined crops and led to heat-related deaths has again raised the question of whether this and other extreme weather events can be attributed to human-induced climate change.
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.
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.
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