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State electric grid strains amid record heat; Austin breaks 86-year-old record
statesman It was so hot Wednesday that power plants across the state stuttered amid high demand, prompting the manager of the electric grid for much of the state to order about 100 large industrial...
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In U.S., 2012 so far is hottest year on record
reuters.com (Reuters) – The first eight months of 2012 have been the warmest of any year on record in the contiguous United States, and this has been the third-hottest summer since record-keeping began...
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Australia is so hot they had to add new colors to the weather map
washingtonpost.com As scorching temperatures persist across Australia, the country’s Bureau of Meteorology added a new color to its weather forecasting map, extending the range to 54ºC, or 129ºF, from...
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Not Even Close: 2012 Was Hottest Ever in U.S.
nytimes.com Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images A dry section of the Morse Reservoir in Cicero, Ind., in July. The numbers are in: 2012, the year of a surreal March heat wave, a severe drought in...
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Global increase in record-breaking monthly-mean temperatures
springer.com legalbrief The last decade has produced record-breaking heat waves in many parts of the world. At the same time, it was globally the warmest since sufficient measurements started in the...
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Australian summer lurches from fire to floods
phys.org Roger Barnes rescues a friend’s surfboard from a flooded home in the Brisbane suburb of Newmarket on Monday. From bushfires raging in searing tinder-dry conditions to surging floodwaters and...
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China endures worst heat wave in 140 years
usatoday.com A child cooks shrimp and an egg in a frying pan heated by a manhole cover on a hot summer day on July 31 in Jinan, China. It has been so hot that eggs are hatching without incubators and a...
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National Heat Records Update. China Heat Intensifies
wunderground.com As of Friday August 9th, the heat wave in eastern Asia continues but in central Europe it has subsided. Some of the highlights below. Eastern China This map illustrates quite well...
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Is Siberia the Newest Hot Spot?
thinkprogress.org CREDIT: NASA Earth Observatory It hasn’t been a typical summer in Siberia. High temperatures for this time of year are usually in the mid-to-low 60s Fahrenheit, but this July they hit...
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Severe Heat Waves Are Expected to Double by 2020
usnews.com By 2100, extreme heat waves could cover 80 percent of the globe By Allie Bidwell Heat distorts the appearance of a car as a heat wave spreads across the American West on June 30, 2013 in...
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