Sentences with phrase «hit by a heat wave»

Grant Newsome had this funny tweet of a weather report for Ann Arbor (which is being hit by a heat wave) with the caption: «Don't go to school up north, the weather is always too cold and miserable.»

We have been hit by a heat wave in the middle of February and it's melting hot outside.

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Phoenix, Tucson and other cities hit by the current heat wave are built for extreme temperatures, Keller said, so they're unlikely to see high levels of mortality.

Yet it's already the deadliest heat wave to hit India since at least 1998 and, by some accounts, the fourth - or fifth - deadliest worldwide since 1900.

The first thing I remember when getting into Cairo was getting hit in the face by a heat wave, even though it was September and 9 pm.

From a deadly heat wave that killed hundreds in Chicago — with the South Side's predominantly African - American neighborhoods among the hardest hit — to the long - lasting devastation of Hurricane Katrina, the country's most vulnerable populations are hit first and worst by climate - related disasters.

Since 1950 the number of heat waves worldwide has increased, and heat waves have become longer.5 The hottest days and nights have become hotter and more frequent.6 7 In the past several years, the global area hit by extremely unusual hot summertime temperatures has increased 50 - fold.8 Over the contiguous United States, new record high temperatures over the past decade have consistently outnumbered new record lows by a ratio of 2:1.9 In 2012, the ratio for the year through June 18 stands at more than 9:1.10 Though this ratio is not expected to remain at that level for the rest of the year, it illustrates how unusual 2012 has been, and how these types of extremes are becoming more likely.

The molecule will first use the heat energy in expansion and on cooling will again condense and sink because heavier, and it will cool when its heat expanded volume flows to colder air which absorbs the heat, the internal kinetic energy of vibration, which if strong enough will pass that heat to another colder (which is why visible light is not a thermal energy, it is not powerful enough to move a molecule of matter into vibration, it takes the bigger heat wave, longwave infrared, aka thermal infrared called that because it is the wavelength of heat)-- that is how convective heating warms the fluid gas air in a room, by circulation, in the rise and fall of molecules as they expand and condense, not by heat energy propelling molecules to hit other molecules..

We're being hit by more and more multi-billion dollar climate & weather disasters like hurricane Sandy, the recent Great Plains heat waves and (most likely) ongoing «unprecedented» flooding in Colorado — disasters pushed beyond their natural variability by the changing conditions of our new climate.