The maps—which are a collaboration between the NWS and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)—show the risk of heat-related impacts across the lower 48 states between August 2 ...

Governor Gavin Newsom on Thursday announced the launch of a new, first-in-the-nation tool to forecast and rank heat severity ...

Take action when you see symptoms of heat exhaustion and heat stroke." A map from the National Weather ... the states most at risk for extreme impacts are Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Arkansas ...

An interactive map created by the Centers ... experience negative health outcomes from heat.” But CDC’s Heat and Health Index shows that heat risk is about much more than temperatures.

You can click anywhere on the interactive map and pull up a seven-day forecast of risk assessments for any city, town or area. HeatRisk analyzes how unusual the heat is for the time of year and ...

A few months ago, scientists anticipated a hotter-than-usual summer and many Americans are now feeling the heat. For several regions in the U.S., the first week of August marks the fifth heat wave ...

denoted on the HeatRisk map in green (more on this in a moment). Based on the NWS’s calculations, these areas are expected to see “little to no risk” from forecasted heat. One step up is ...