Heat Wave

The unprecedented water temperatures — reaching up to 95 degrees Fahrenheit in some places — could intensify storms and hurricanes in the Sunshine State.

Britain broke an all-time heat record this week, and a heat wave in the U.S. stretched from California to the South.

For the first time, authorities have given a heat wave a name. Scientists hope that naming extreme heat events will help the public protect itself.

Fires such as those caused by a recent record-breaking heatwave in Europe will likely become more common as the climate warms, scientists say.

A landfill in New Delhi, India spontaneously combusted this week during a record heatwave.

Simultaneous heat waves have hit the Arctic and Antarctica, raising temperatures by more than 50 degrees in parts of both polar regions.

July 2021 was the single hottest month in history, according to a new NOAA report.

Temperatures over 120 degrees Fahrenheit are part of a "heat dome" scorching the western United States.

Satellite data finds that June 2021 was the hottest June ever recorded in North America.

Undulations in the jet stream have caused a heat dome to descend on the Pacific Northwest, leading to record high temperatures in the US and Canada.