The East Coast is enjoying a ridge of high pressure that has provided a dome of warm air, said Atlanta NWS forecaster Keith Stellman.
Behind the record temperatures was a dome of high pressure over the center of the country, which combined with a powerful drought to create the scorching temperatures, said Jake Crouch, a climate scientist at NOAA's National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.
It was all thanks to a large dome of persistent high pressure, clear blue skies and strong sunshine.
He devised a dome consisting of two shells, one nested in the other.
Wandering among the turbines, we passed some Ping-Pong tables, where a competition was under way, and stopped in front of a shiny white dome that looked like the nose of a passenger jet.
The project in question is a plan to build an entire cultural district in Abu Dhabi, including a futuristic arts center and a branch of France's Louvre Museum that will consist of a huge, white dome riddled with skylights over a network of man-made islands on the edge of the Persian Gulf.
The diagnosis is suspected when there is a history of a reddish and flesh colored dome shaped lesion that developed over the course of a few days to three weeks and bleeds easily.
But Labour MP for Watford, Claire Ward, a member of the Commons Select Committee on the Dome and a past critic of the secrecy and organisation of the exhibition, said she had been inspired.
It is constructed in the shape of a dome, with six trapezoidal side windows and a circular top window of a little under 80cm, making it the largest window ever built for space.
The organisers are billing it as "a chance of a lifetime" to perform in the Millennium Dome's central attraction to audiences of up to 12, 000 a show, six times a day.
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New Labour saw the countryside as a "rural version of the Dome rather than a real place where real people work and live" he added.
Four consecutive Sundays have been dedicated to d.j.s playing the music of Kraftwerk over a surround-sound system set up in a geodesic dome in the courtyard of MOMA PS1, in Queens.
The Super Bowl has always been held in warm-weather cities, like New Orleans, Tampa or San Diego, or in the controlled climate of a dome, where a roof shields fans from the weather outside.
It was the third straight loss for Syracuse (22-7, 10-6 Big East), which was humbled 57-46 in a loss to No. 7 Georgetown a week ago before a record Carrier Dome crowd of 35, 012.
Stand in the center of the rotunda and gaze up to the heavens through the eight-meter-high oculus at the center of the five-ton concrete dome --a stunning feat of ancient engineering, still intact after two thousand years.
As workers started to lay a wooden brace at the base of the dome, Brunelleschi suddenly became bedridden, leaving Ghiberti in charge of building a structure he had not designed.
Some of Richard Wilson's previous works include a large disc sawn out of the facade of a building for the Liverpool Year of Culture and a section of ship moored near the Millennium Dome in 2000, cut vertically to show its cross-section.
Local resident Patrick Allen is setting up the Friends of Langham Dome in a bid to preserve the building and turn a piece of RAF Langham's history into a museum - but why?
It was a brilliant demonstration of physics and geometry in a lightweight dome.
The former bathroom designer found only a dome base ensured screen positioning of 360 degrees.
Another corralled several thousand supporters of building a dome over Chicago to keep the city warm all year.
It is true that the grant to the Dome is a large sum of money, and the aim of attracting 12m visitors was too high.
Unlike the clusters of mini-domes Sinan used to diffuse the weight of a heavy dome, Tepebasi's six domelets are there for decoration, though their rain-resistant, zinc-plate coating ruins even that task.
Some in the oil industry questioned why it took the company so long to come up with the idea of a containment dome, and why it didn't have one ready to use.
He had cleverly created a stir by soliciting pledges from normal people to build a dome over the entire city of Chicago that would be deployed during the cold months of winter.
The biggest broadcast event of the year was suddenly jolted by silence and darkness when a portion of the Super Dome in New Orleans lost power early in the game's second half.
Abu Dhabi is negotiating to build a Louvre too: not a replica of the Paris palace but a huge translucent dome filled with fountains to be designed by a Frenchman, Jean Nouvel.
The lack of a ringmaster means decisions about the Dome's contents - such as the gender of the enormous figure that will dominate the body zone - are currently taken on what the Chief Executive of the New Millennium Experience Company, Jenny Page, told Panorama was a 'corporate basis'.
More chronic sufferers of lost love could opt for the Global Vipassana Pagoda, a massive dome-shaped meditation hall on the outskirts of Mumbai that can house more than 8, 000 people.
The group, which sold millions of albums, broke up with a farewell concert at the Tokyo Dome on the last day of last year.
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