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Heat Wave by Marty Ambrose, 2000 New England's Disastrous Weather: Hurricanes, Tornadoes, Blizzards, Dark Days, Heat Waves, Cold Snaps ...andthe Human Stories Behind Them Heat Wave by Michel Marc Bouchard, 1998-01-16 Heat Wave by Derek Adams, 1996-10 Heat Wave (Heinemann First Library) by Catherine Chambers, 2007-01-15 Heat-wave; poems by Bruce Dawe, 1970 Heat Wave (Second Chance at Love) by Lee Williams, 1987-05 Heat wave by Caesar Smith, 1958 Heat Waves by Derek Wynard, 1988 Natural Disasters in Germany: Earthquakes in Germany, Floods in Germany, 2003 European Heat Wave, 2002 European Floods 1936 Meteorology: 1936 Atlantic Hurricane Season, Tornadoes of 1936, 1936 Cordele-Greensboro Tornado Outbreak, 1936 North American Heat Wave Heat Wave (Handbound Edition with original artwork by Ken Price) by Charles Bukowski, Kenneth Price, 1995-05 Heat Wave by Penelope Lively, 1996-12 Heat Wave by Penelope Lively, 1997-05-29

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41. News4Jax.com - Weather - Cause, Dangers Of Heat Waves
    Cause, Dangers Of heat waves. POSTED 325 pm EDT July 26, 2005 But heat waves are episodes of extreme heat lasts a week or longer and can extend over a  
    http://www.news4jax.com/weather/4771695/detail.html
    
    Extractions: Search Contact WJXT Get RSS Sign up for E-News Traffic ... Weather Email This Story Print This Story POSTED: 3:25 pm EDT July 26, 2005 JACKSONVILLE, Fla. Summer always brings days of hot weather and some of them may set new record high temperatures. But heat waves are episodes of extreme heat lasts a week or longer and can extend over a large section of the U.S. Jacksonville's senior meteorologist not only prepares his daily forecasts and monthly garden tips , but also puts some broader thoughts together for a regular column here on News4Jax.com. The factors that cause such conditions to occur are: Long Hours of Sunshine There are more hours of daytime solar heating than hours of nocturnal cooling. This causes the temperature of the air to increase daily unless cloud systems and cooling rains are generated. Reduction of Atmospheric Moisture The expansion of heated air causes a large high pressure aloft. High pressure areas produce sinking air, called subsidence. This not only brings drier air down from aloft, but the air is heated by compression by the more dense pressure of the lower atmosphere. This heated air creates a “lid” of warm air called an inversion that restricts the movement of rising air currents that would produce clouds and showers. This large dome of high pressure also blocks out cloud systems and rain-producing fronts. Dry landscape With less moisture in the soil and landscape, there is an absence of evaporative cooling in the lower atmosphere. The accumulation of smoke and dust reduces the ability of water vapor to condense into clouds or rain showers.

42. Ace
    While heat waves may seem more like an unpleasant aspect of summertime than a Each summer, one or more areas of the country are affected by heat waves,  
    http://www.acehardware.com/info/disaster_heatwave.jsp

43. The Heat Is Online
    heat waves to worsen across America and Europe, says study WASHINGTON heat waves like those that have hit Paris and Chicago in recent years are likely  
    http://www.heatisonline.org/contentserver/objecthandlers/index.cfm?id=4802&metho

44. July 2005 Heat Wave
    This was a deadly heat wave. Looking back at the Minneapolis Weather Bureau TOP heat waves CONSECUTIVE DAYS AT OR ABOVE 90 /18912005/ RANK NUMBER OF  
    http://climate.umn.edu/doc/journal/heat050713.htm
    
    Extractions: July 2005 Heat Wave Fresh on the heels of the fifth warmest June on record in the Twin Cities, July 2005 is also turning out to be quite warm. A streak of 9 days in a row of 90 degrees or warmer placed the summer of 2005 in the record books tied for 3rd place along with 4 other years. The last time the Twin Cities saw a stretch of 9 days in a row of 90 degrees or higher was back in 1988. The longest stretch of 90 plus degrees was July 5-18 1936 with 14 days in a row. This included a record stretch of five days in a row where the thermometer saw 100 or above. This was a deadly heat wave. Looking back at the Minneapolis Weather Bureau log books there were 84 deaths in Minneapolis and 92 in St Paul from July 12-16 1936 due to the heat. So far as of July 19th there has not been a 100 degree temperature yet this year in Minnesota. Other places in Minnesota have been warm as well. See St. Cloud Hot Weather Facts. from St. Cloud State University. Listed below is a National Weather Service Statement about this heat wave Return to Minnesota Climatology Working Group Main page

45. Heat Waves And Human Health
    Human and animal mortality is high also during heat waves. There are various definitions of heat waves, but a common one is a series of days with maxima  
    http://www-das.uwyo.edu/~geerts/cwx/notes/chap03/heatwave.html
    
    Extractions: E. Linacre Death rates at midlatitudes tend to be highest in winter, when people are confined indoors and therefore are more exposed to infectious diseases. Human and animal mortality is high also during heat waves There are various definitions of heat waves, but a common one is a series of days with maxima over 35 C. Heat waves can cause great discomfort to people, and in the extreme they can cause heat stroke , which involves brain dysfunction (e.g. a stroke or convulsions), hot and dry skin, and a body-core temperature above 40 C (1). Heat stress should be measured in terms of its effect of the human energy balance, e.g. the apparent temperature or heat index . Heat-related deaths are most common amongst the elderly and sick people, and they tend to occur one day after great heat, perhaps because of the time taken to modify the blood’s composition in a way that precipitates heart or brain thrombosis. In Australia and the USA, heat waves kill more people than any other weather-related disaster (1, 3). Moreover, it is estimated that for every death specifically attributed to high temperatures, there are ten more due to the heat aggravating a pre-existing illness. Heat deaths and measured summer temperatures are strongly correlated in many parts of the USA but not in the southeastern states (the 'South') (4). One could hypothesise that many heat-related deaths in the South, where high dewpoints and maxima over 30

46. Heatwave
    WISCONSIN IS NOT IMMUNE FROM THE TRAGEDIES CAUSED BY heat waves. THIS IS ESPECIALLY TRUE DURING A HEAT WAVE WHERE A MODERATE CLIMATE PREVAILS SUCH AS  
    http://www.crh.noaa.gov/mkx/flyers/flyerheatwave.htm
    
    Extractions: WITH THESE TRAGIC DEATH TOLLS THE WEATHER SERVICE HAS FOUND WAYS TO EFFECTIVELY WARN THE PUBLIC OF THE COMBINED DANGERS OF HEAT AND HUMIDITY ASSOCIATED WITH HEAT WAVES. THE WEATHER SERVICE USES THE HEAT INDEX /HI/ AS AN ESTIMATE OF HOW HOT IT REALLY FEELS WHEN THE RELATIVE HUMIDITY IS ADDED TO THE ACTUAL AIR TEMPERATURE. THE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE WILL ISSUE AN EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING WHEN IT EXPECTS THE DAYTIME HEAT INDEX VALUES TO EXCEED 110 DEGREES FOR 3 HOURS OR MORE...WHILE NIGHTTIME HEAT INDEX VALUES EQUAL OR EXCEED 80 DEGREES FOR ANY 24 HOUR PERIOD. THE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN NWS OFFICE SERVICES 20 COUNTIES IN SOUTH-CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN. OTHER NWS OFFICES THAT SERVICE WISCONSIN USE A DAYTIME HEAT INDEX THRESHOLD OF 115 FOR WARNINGS. REMEMBER THAT IF HEAT INDEX VALUES EXCEED 110 DEGREES...SUN-STROKE... HEAT CRAMPS OR HEAT EXHAUSTION IS LIKELY WITH PROLONGED EXPOSURE AND/OR PHYSICAL ACTIVITY. HELP EACH OTHER...

47. National Weather Service Forecast Office - Milwaukee, WI
    WISCONSIN IS NOT IMMUNE FROM THE TRAGEDIES CAUSED BY heat waves. SINCE 1982 heat waves HAVE BEEN RESPONSIBLE FOR MORE DEATHS IN WISCONSIN THAN ALL OTHER  
    http://www.crh.noaa.gov/mkx/heatwave.php
    
    Extractions: 2005 Press Release - a major summer killer in Wisconsin HEAT IS THE NUMBER-ONE WEATHER KILLER IN THIS COUNTRY. EXTREME HEAT AND HUMIDITY ASSOCIATED WITH HEAT WAVES DIRECTLY KILLED ON AVERAGE AT LEAST 237 PEOPLE A YEAR IN THE UNITED STATES FOR THE PERIOD OF 1994-2003. THESE NUMBERS ARE BASED ON INFORMATION FROM THE CENTERS OF DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION /CDC/. KEEPING AN EYE ON THE HEAT INDEX WITH THESE TRAGIC DEATH TOLLS THE WEATHER SERVICE HAS FOUND WAYS TO EFFECTIVELY WARN THE PUBLIC OF THE COMBINED DANGERS OF HEAT AND HUMIDITY ASSOCIATED WITH HEAT WAVES. THE WEATHER SERVICE USES THE HEAT INDEX /HI/ AS AN ESTIMATE OF HOW HOT IT REALLY FEELS WHEN THE RELATIVE HUMIDITY IS ADDED TO THE ACTUAL AIR TEMPERATURE.

48. Heat And Health - Heat Waves
    People might suffer more often from heatstroke, and more may die from heart attacks and other heat waves Pollution Tainted Water Disease Carriers  
    http://globalwarming.enviroweb.org/isproblem/heatnhealth/hh_heatwave.html

49. [E] - Global Warming To Worsen Heat Waves In American And European Cities (by Ro
    Researchers from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado released findings last week predicting that cities in the US and  
    http://www.emagazine.com/view/?2006

50. Heat Waves Of The 21st Century: More Intense, More Frequent And Longer Lasting
    PhysOrg news heat waves of the 21st Century More Intense, More Frequent and Longer Lasting.  
    http://www.physorg.com/news806.html
    
    Extractions: The survey takes less than two minutes, there's nothing to identify you personally, and you won't receive any email or other sales pitches by participating. August 12, 2004 Heat waves in Chicago, Paris, and elsewhere in North America and Europe will become more intense, more frequent and longer lasting in the 21st century, according to a new modeling study by two scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colo. In the United States, heat waves will become most severe in the West and South. The findings appear in the August 13 issue of the journal Science.

51. EPA: HIRI - Heat & Health - Stratgies To Address Heat Waves
    The EPA Heat Island Reduction Initiative Site This section provides information about how the heat island effect can raise summertime urban temperatures  
    http://www.epa.gov/heatisland/about/excessiveheatevents.html
    
    Extractions: Local governments can play an important role in predicting and responding to excessive heat events, or heat waves. Two increasingly common strategies are heat alert systems and heat island reduction measures. Heat Health Watch-Warning Systems predict when heat waves are likely to affect public health, and alert public officials to this threat. These systems use computer programs that analyze National Weather Service forecasts and other local data to forecast dangerous conditions. Working with the University of Delaware's Synoptic Climatology Lab , approximately 20 cities in the U.S. have established Heat Health Watch-Warning Systems. Participating cities include Philadelphia, Seattle, Chicago, and St. Louis, as well as numerous municipalities throughout Europe. Can Heat Island Reduction Strategies Lower the Risk of Excessive Heat Events?

52. The 2003 European Heat Waves
    The current issue of Eurosurveillance updates and provides additional context to the report in early 2004 of an estimated 22 080 excess deaths in England  
    http://www.eurosurveillance.org/em/v10n07/1007-222.asp
    
    Extractions: Contributors employed a variety of methods to estimate the number of excess deaths during and just after the 2003 heat episodes and to relate daily death counts to weather, to concentrations of air pollutants, and to demographic and social characteristics. Indeed, the varying emphases and methods demonstrated by the six national contributors provide complementary evidence of what happened in 2003, and to whom. While the absence of uniform methods does limit between-country comparisons of the health impact of the 2003 heat waves, these reports taken together suggest that weather alone does not explain the varying tolls of excess death within and between countries. Investigators in Rome and Turin calculated rates of excess death as a function of socioeconomic level. They report that the greatest excess was in people living in areas of the lowest socioeconomic level, and suggest that finding may be upwardly biased, due in part to the phenomenon that those who have the means to do so leave Italian cities in summer, leading to an overestimate of the denominator for economically advantaged elderly people resident in the city in summer [7].

53. More Intense, More Frequent, And Longer Lasting Heat Waves In The 21st Century -
    More Intense, More Frequent, and Longer Lasting heat waves in the 21st Century Observations and the model show that presentday heat waves over Europe  
    http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/short/305/5686/994
    
    Extractions: [DOI: 10.1126/science.1098704] Gerald A. Meehl and Claudia Tebaldi A global coupled climate model shows that there is a distinct geographic pattern to future changes in heat waves. Model results for areas of Europe and North America, associated with the severe heat waves in Chicago in 1995 and Paris in 2003, show that future

54. American News | 08/03/2005 | Heat Wave To Give Way To Cooler Temps
    Heat wave to give way to cooler temps weather in the Aberdeen area has been like a broken record with the persistent heat waves that keep coming back.  
    http://www.aberdeennews.com/mld/aberdeennews/news/12290929.htm
    
    Extractions: Talk about beating a dead horse. The weather in the Aberdeen area has been like a broken record with the persistent heat waves that keep coming back. A number of cliches come to mind. Perhaps the most accurate adage: Any way you slice it, it's been hot. A heat advisory was in effect Tuesday for most of central and northeastern South Dakota. In Aberdeen, Tuesday's high was 93 degrees, and as of 7 p.m., the heat index high was 103, said Jessica Elsen of Aberdeen's National Weather Service office. That means it felt 10 degrees hotter in the Hub City than it actually ever was Tuesday. But for those of you sick of the summer sizzle, there is hope.

55. Meeting: Heat Waves, Housing And Health
    meeting proceedings heat waves, housing and health.  
    http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/php/meeting/
    
    Extractions: Heat waves, Housing and Health A one-day workshop on "heat waves, housing and health" in the UK was held at LSHTM on 7 May 2004. The meeting was jointly hosted by LSHTM, London Metropolitan University and the University of Birmingham. The objectives of the meeting were: To review current knowledge on linkages between heat, health and housing, and identify research priorities To review the evidence base for public health responses to heat waves, and what can be learned following the heat wave of 2003 in Europe. To discuss the nature and potential benefit of a heat health warning system for London (part of the EC funded PHEWE project). To identify implications of climate change on heat-related health impacts. To develop a research and response network.

56. 1/12/2004 -- Scientists Tie Heat Waves To Greenhouse Gases
    10/8/2005 Spain Withers Under Heat Wave and Drought, Associated Press 10/8/2005 Bush signs energy bill that will cost billions, International Herald  
    http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=36842

57. Metropolis - Tokyo Talk: Heat Waves
    Iron Chef this isn?ft, but this week we got a few happy homemakers all hot and bothered over the great ?gto microwave or not to microwave?h debate.  
    http://www.metropolis.co.jp/tokyostreetfashionarchive349/326/tokyostreetfashioni

58. Space Today Online - Powerful Heat Waves In Earth's Future
    STO covers Space from Earth to the Edge of the Universe.  
    http://www.spacetoday.org/SolSys/Earth/FutureHeatWaves.html
    
    Extractions: The observatory sits out in the middle of the lake to reduce distortion from Sun heating the air above the ground. Turbulence is reduced by a smooth flow of wind across the lake. The usually cloudless skies over the lake and the clear air at 6,750 feet elevation make the observatory a great site for solar observations.

59. MFD - Public Education - Heat Waves
    heat waves Adapted from information provided by the American Red Cross Heat wave Prolonged period of excessive heat and humidity.  
    http://www.merriam.org/MFD/Education/HeatWave.htm
    
    Extractions: Adapted from information provided by the American Red Cross Doing too much on a hot day, spending too much time in the sun or staying too long in an overheated place can cause heat-related illnesses. Know the symptoms of head disorders and overexposure to the sun, and be ready to give first aid treatment. Know what these terms mean... Heat wave: Prolonged period of excessive heat and humidity. The National Weather Service steps up its procedures to alert the public during these periods of excessive heat and humidity. Heat index: A number in degrees Fahrenheit (F) that tells how hot it really feels when relative humidity is added to the actual air temperature. Exposure to full sunshine can increase the heat index by 15 degrees F. Heat cramps: Heat cramps are muscular pains and spasms due to heavy exertion. Although heat cramps are the least severe, they are an early signal that the body is having trouble with the heat.

60. Weather.com - Storm Encyclopedia -
    Heat Wave Watches and Warnings Droughts Historical Droughts Extreme Heat Safety Forecasting heat waves Heat Impact Palmer Drought Severity Index  
    http://www.weather.com/encyclopedia/heat/
    
    Extractions: OAS_MJX_on=true; OAS_spoof='/p/f/r/schoolday-education'; OAS_listpos='PageCounter,Leader1,Skyscraper,Hidden1,Hidden2'; OAS_query='context=hng_schdy'; CM_tag='hng_schdy_cont'; cmCreatePageviewTag(CM_page_id, CM_cat_id, CM_rmid, CM_urs_id, CM_where_search, CM_partner, CM_dma, CM_country, CM_state, CM_topProdID, CM_detailProdID, CM_prodViewTag, CM_shop5Tag, CM_shop9Tag); Home My Page Health Travel ... SunReady Local Weather See weather related to ... Allergies Skin Protection Air Quality Fitness Health Home Planner Pets Schoolday Sporting Events Driving Golf Ski Outdoors Business Travel Vacation Planner Heat Wave Watches and Warnings Droughts Historical Droughts Extreme Heat Safety ... UV Index Although the threshold criteria may vary depending on the location, two kinds of heat-related alerts may be issued. Heat Advisory - issued when the heat, or combination of heat and humidity, is expected to become an inconvenience for much of the population, and a problem for some. Excessive Heat Warning - issued when the heat, or combination of heat and humidity

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