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heat wave News

heat wave News From the Web

  • 07/20/11 Topic: Killer Heat Waves: Weather Whys (Farm & Ranch) Source: San Saba News & Star - San Saba TX There's a big heat wave hitting much of the U.S. right now.
  • 07/13/11 Weather Whys: Killer heat waves Source: The Bryan-College Station Eagle - Bryan TX There's a big heat wave hitting much of the U.S. right now.
  • 12/02/10 Study finds higher mortality risk from early heat... Source: News-Medical.Net The risk of dying from a heat wave is highest when heat waves occur early in the summer and are hotter and longer than usual, according to a Yale study published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives ( EHP ).
  • 12/01/10 Early summer heat waves are deadliest Source: The Daily India Researchers have pointed out that the risk of dying from a heat waves is highest when they occur early in the summer and are hotter and longer than usual.
  • 11/30/10 Heat wave deaths highest in early summer Source: ScienceDaily The risk of dying from a heat wave is highest when heat waves occur early in the summer and are hotter and longer than usual, according to a Yale study published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives ( EHP ).

Background on heat wave

A heat wave is a prolonged period of excessively hot weather, which may be accompanied by high humidity.

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