What Makes a Heat Dome Different from Regular Heat Waves A heat dome forms when an exceptionally warm air mass at middle ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- This time, 30 year ago, Chicago was grappling with extreme and unprecedented deadly heat. ABC7 is looking back on the tragedy that changed the way the city responds to natural ...

OK. One of the times I went running this week in our nation's capital, it was early in the morning but already 82 degrees and 82% humidity. Washington, D.C., has had daytime temperatures over 100 this ...

Each fraction of a degree of warming will have a bigger impact than the last on lengthening heat waves, with the most extreme heat waves lengthening the most. Tropical regions will see larger changes ...

The Mediterranean Sea is particularly susceptible to marine heat waves—such as the record-breaking 2022 heat wave, which was characterized by anomalously high sea surface temperatures—due to the ...