A "heat dome," similar to a heat wave, is a high-pressure system trapping hot air and causing prolonged high temperatures. Heat domes differ from heat waves in their duration and the stagnant nature ...

From Texas clear to Georgia, from the Gulf Coast on up to the Canadian border, a mass of dangerous heat has started spreading like an atmospheric plague. In the days and perhaps even weeks ahead, a ...

ARLINGTON, Va. − A heat dome expanding across much of the Midwest and South will envelop over 100 million Americans with temperatures at or above 100 degrees on an almost daily basis this week, ...

With much of the Midwest and the Northeast broiling — or about to broil — in extreme summer heat this week, meteorologists are talking about heat waves and heat domes. Both mean it's really hot — and ...

A study from Oregon State University and the U.S. Forest Service found the four-day extreme heat event scorched more than 1,000 square miles of tree canopy Using satellite imagery, researchers have ...

OPELIKA, Ala. (WTVM) - Much of the Southeast is under a heat warning, Alabama and Georgia are included, due to a Heat Dome that will be making things hotter and muggier over the weekend and into next ...

The heat dome that roasted and sweltered more than 100 million people on a daily basis during July in the eastern United States has broken down. However, a new heat dome is already building in the ...

We managed to breach the 90s yesterday, and that’s just the beginning. Temperatures keep climbing today through the weekend with little to no rain the next 5 days. Rain may return for the middle of ...

Let’s take a moment to think back to mid-summer, when we were all enjoying cooler temperatures than normal, cloudy skies, and unexpectedly extra rainfall. Although it was a welcome alternative to the ...

Using satellite imagery, researchers have discovered that nearly 5% of Oregon and Washington’s western forest canopy — about the size of Rhode Island — was scorched and damaged in the multi-day 2021 ...

Using satellite imagery, researchers have discovered that nearly 5% of Oregon and Washington’s western forest canopy — about the size of Rhode Island — was scorched and damaged in the multiday 2021 ...

A study from Oregon State University and the U.S. Forest Service found the four-day extreme heat event scorched more than 1,000 square miles of tree canopy. Using satellite imagery, researchers have ...