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Extreme Heat Warning 2017

2017-08-01 23:51:51| PortlandOnline

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Extreme heat is exhausting and expensive

2016-07-21 12:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Grist: Its July, the month where the whole world collectively reaches for the nearest chilled beverage. Work be damned: Hordes of city-dwellers are relocating to the seaside, celebrities frolic in Ibiza, and most of us in the continental United States are tethered to the air conditioner right now. Just kidding first-world problems are the least of our worries in the middle of this 14-month global heat streak. It turns out that increasingly hot summers are going to wreak total havoc on some countries...

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Southwest braces for more extreme heat on 1st day of summer

2016-06-20 11:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Associated Press: As the mercury soared, records were falling. A severe heatwave ushered in the first day of summer Monday in the broiling Southwest, where extreme temperatures were blamed for at least five deaths over the weekend. Towns along the Arizona-California border were getting the brunt of the extreme temperatures on Monday. In Palm Springs, the thermometer hit 121 degrees in the early afternoon. The temperature in Phoenix broke a record and hit 116 degrees. A cool off was expected in the coming...

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Extreme heat to sear Southwest, plains: Phoenix could approach 120 degrees

2016-06-19 14:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

EcoWatch: Dangerous and potentially deadly heat will spread toward the Southwest this weekend while continuing to impact parts of the Plains and South. Some cities have already received record-breaking temperatures this week: Columbia, Missouri, broke its old record high of 96 degrees (set in 1952) by reaching 99 degrees on Wednesday. Des Moines, Iowa, tied its old record high of 96 degrees (set in 1913) on Wednesday. The most extreme heat in the coming days will be in the Desert Southwest where...

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Extreme Heat: How Urban Design Needs to Adapt to Rising Temperatures

2016-04-25 13:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

CurBed: Rising temperatures from climate change pose numerous challenges to cities, including coastal flooding, rising sea levels, and droughts. But a new report by the Design for Risk and Reconstruction Committee (DfRR) of the American Institute of Architects New York addresses an often overlooked, but seemingly obvious issue head-on: the danger of higher and higher temperatures. Extreme Heat suggests that cities, and the way we build and design them, needs to adapt and evolve to deal with the coming...

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