Heat Wave News

Parts of South Australia are on "red alert" for bushfires as abnormally high November temperatures grip the state.

Meteorological events that happened on November 20th: 1869 A second great windstorm in 3 days struck Vermont and New York blowing railroad trains off their tracks.

NSW residents have been told to prepare their homes for bushfire, with sweltering heat expected to hit most of the state in coming days.

AN evening shower or thunderstorm is expected around Brisbane and the Gold and Sunshine coasts today, with a short-lived heat wave due to arrive tomorrow.

THE Wimmera and Mallee is in the midst of a record heat wave for November. Hopetoun has already experienced four consecutive days above 35 degrees while Horsham has experienced two and Bureau of Meteorology forecasters have predicted another four consecutive days of 35 degrees or above across the region.

The beavers took cover intheir underwater lodges, but hundreds of other animals were left seeking shade or a cooling breeze Thursday when a power outage hit Adelaide Zoo during a heat wave.

ADELAIDE can "pencil in" some relief for the weekend from this week's blistering heatwave, with forecasters expecting Sunday to reach only 29C.

A negligent pet owner left his dog to 'cook to death' inside a boiling hot car while he visited his girlfriend.

After a year of living with no indoor shower, dishwasher or central air conditioning, an east Orange County couple calls it an off-the-grid paradise.

Some people complain about the weather. Mark Davis does something about it. The 33-year-old Snoqualmie resident is the sun behind Snoqualmie Weather, a Web site he developed in February 2008 to monitor Mother Nature's activity in the region.

Guess when the following events are most likely to occur: 1) Date of 1st inch of snowfall in Concord : 2) Date of ice out on Lake Winnipesaukee : 5) Date most likely to be within a heat wave in Concord : 8) Most likely date above 100 degrees in Concord : 11) Date most likely for a northeast hurricane : 14) Most likely date below 0 degrees farenheit ...

I'VE BEEN trying to figure out why I love my garden most right now, when it's so not at its best.

Is the world warming? Yes. Average global temperatures increased by 0.74C in the past century, and by 0.6C in the century before that.

Well we had some interesting weather this year. This summer started off wet and cool with much above normal rainfall for the month of June.

Florida summers can be viciously hot and humid, with temperatures nearing or exceeding 100 degrees.

It all started with a a oestupida idea and a message about pinot noir. Two of the founders of Twitter Inc.

The 2009 Pinot Noir harvest is wrapping up in the Santa Lucia Highlands appellation, with winegrowers reporting potentially very high quality and normal yields.

Atlantic hurricane season officially stretches until the end of November, but the 2009 season seems to be over with barely a whimper.

SIDON/ BEIRUT: Large fires broke out in the north and south of Lebanon on Monday due to the recent heat wave that assailed the country while Civil Defense forces struggled to put out the flames.

This month's record-setting heat wave will take a break for a few days as showers move into the area today and Friday.