Heat Wave News

An Indian man bathes as a woman prepares to wash clothes at a lake on a hot afternoon in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, May 22, 2013.

A blistering heat wave has caused massive power cuts and water shortages across much of north and western India, and some people are taking to the streets to express their anger with the government.

The heat wave continued unabated in the Indian capital Thursday with the minimum temperature settling five notches above average at 31.4 degrees Celsius and the maximum expected to hover around the 45 degrees Celsius mark.

As no significant rain giving system is approaching the country, the weather is likely to remain oppressive due to high temperature during the day and at nighttime.

For any New York City resident with plans to go out and enjoy the upcoming warmth after the deep freeze of winter, be warned, death from overwhelming heat waves are expected to rise dramatically this summer, according to a study published in the journal Nature Climate Change.

A sharp, hot upper-level ridge built into the U.P. on May 21, 1994. It brought 90-degree temperatures with it.

Summers growing up in Manhattan meant leaving the Baked Apple for two months to go to sleepaway camp.

Clear, sunny skies are in the forecast across Korea in the coming days, with temperatures expected to reach up to 30 degrees Celsius.

This summer Trojan is bringing that heat wave from last December back to the Windy City by giving away thousands of free vibrators .

Bhopal : Intense heat wave sweeping Madhya Pradesh has claimed three lives in the state since yesterday, police said today.A 50-year-old man died due to severe heat in Sagar last evening, while another man was found dead under a tree on National Highway 26, they said.A trainee constable also died following heat stroke at the Police Training School ... (more)

This week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is featuring new information on extreme heat and the national impact of heat-related illnesses during Extreme Heat Awareness Week.

Supporters of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf political party of cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan gather during a protest against the killing of Zara Shahid Hussain, a leading member of the PTI, outside the mausoleum of Mohammad Ali Jinnah in Karachi May 20, 2013.

The residents of Manhattan and New York are already feeling the effects of global warming after experiencing Hurricanes Irene and Superstorm Sandy.

A report said that seven people lost their lives due to heatstroke in different areas.

Tata-Kandra Road in Jamshedpur wears an unofficial bandh look on Sunday afternoon as the city recorded its hottest day in four years with the mercury touching 45.5 C, five degrees above normal.

The Courier on Sunday won seven statewide awards, including two first-place awards, for journalistic excellence during 2012.

On St. Dunstan's Day, a tornado that traveled from Windsor to St Albans, England was described as a "marvelous sore tempest of weather , the air being darkened on every side from the four corners thereof, and withal chanced such a thunder as few the like had been heard." Forest fires in Michigan sent smoke across New England, which made the sky as ... (more)

Parts of Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Vidarbha, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Odisha and Andhra Pradesh would experience heat wave to severe heat wave conditions during the next three days.

Heat-related fatalities are projected rise steeply in Manhattan due to warming climate.

Nagpur, May 19 : The orange city Saturday recorded a maximum temperatures of 47 degrees Celsius, making it the hottest place in the country, an India Meteorological Department official said here Sunday.