Governor Gavin Newsom on Thursday announced the launch of a new, first-in-the-nation tool to forecast and rank heat severity in areas across California. (Video Above: Near-record heat expected in ...

The analysis uses county-level temperature ... the number of heat-related deaths and illness. Extreme heat kills and maims. Here are some of its victims from across the US. When the air ...

"The cumulative impacts of heat on the human body can be significant when consecutive days of excessive heat occur." ...

Extreme heat in the US has killed at least 147 people in just ... 64 had died in Pima County, Arizona; 39 in Maricopa County, Arizona; 26 in Clark County, Nevada; 11 in Webb County, Texas; and ...

(NEXSTAR) – Does it feel like a totally different climate when you go across town? It may be the urban heat island effect. The way a city is designed can make hot weather feel even worse.

Brendon Haggerty, with the Multnomah County Health Department, put the data into a map. His goal is for people and governments to use the map to reduce local heat. “In areas where we see warmer ...