But it's not just about a number on a thermometer: The USA's ongoing heat wave has also been deadly. At least 30 fatalities across the West this month are suspected to be related to extreme heat ...

A searing heat wave that has gripped much of the United States in recent days is suspected of killing at least 28 people in the last week, according to reports from state officials, medical ...

A weeklong heat wave has incinerated multiple temperature records in the West, subjected millions of people to unrelenting sweltering conditions and caused dozens of deaths. More than 50 cities in ...

Heat alerts are in effect for 16 states from Maine to Kentucky as the dangerous heat wave continues. Boston and Manchester, New Hampshire, both reached a record high of 98 degrees on Wednesday.

A heat wave was expected to bring record-high temperatures to the midwestern United States this week before spreading to the East Coast, forecasters said. At the same time, a bout of severe ...

Thousands died and people slept on roofs to cope with the early heat wave, which was supercharged by agricultural practices. By Tim Balk By the time cool air from Canada’s Hudson Bay arrived to ...

Des Moines, Iowa—near the epicenter of the heat wave Monday—hit 99 degrees in the afternoon, with a heat index of 111, while St. Louis also reached 99 and topped out with a heat index of 104 ...

Mr. Klinenberg is a sociologist and the author of “Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago.” Do you remember the heat dome that settled over Washington and Oregon in 2021 ...

The first-ever excessive heat warning was issued in Caribou, Maine. Dangerously high temperatures are hitting 14 states across the Midwest and Northeast on Wednesday as an unrelenting heat wave ...