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Recent Examples of heat wave
An estimated 84% of heat wave days between 2020 and 2024 would not have happened without global warming, according to a 2025 Lancet report on health and climate change.
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Dr. Megan Still, ABC News, 20 Apr. 2026
Arizona has experienced a steady rise in average temperatures over the past 25 years, with record-breaking high temperatures, including the state’s unprecedented, 100-degree-plus heat wave in March.
—Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com, 17 Apr. 2026
Elevated temperatures lasting more than five days are defined as a marine heat wave.
—Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Apr. 2026
This year’s El Niño will feed off the marine heat wave, but once formed, El Niño will in turn help the marine heat wave intensify and persist, said Dillon Amaya, a research scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Physical Sciences Lab.
—Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2026
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Dr. Megan Still, ABC News, 20 Apr. 2026
Arizona has experienced a steady rise in average temperatures over the past 25 years, with record-breaking high temperatures, including the state’s unprecedented, 100-degree-plus heat wave in March.
—Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com, 17 Apr. 2026
Elevated temperatures lasting more than five days are defined as a marine heat wave.
—Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Apr. 2026
This year’s El Niño will feed off the marine heat wave, but once formed, El Niño will in turn help the marine heat wave intensify and persist, said Dillon Amaya, a research scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Physical Sciences Lab.
—Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for heat wave
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The woman was hiking in the Long Canyon Trail area in Simi Valley’s Wood Ranch community on Thursday when she was bitten by a rattlesnake, marking the seventh such incident in Ventura County in the past month as recent heat drives increased snake activity.—
Brittany Miller,
FOXNews.com,
1 May 2026
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Carbon nanotubes are conductive, meaning electricity and heat can move through them, and both types of nanotubes absorb and reflect electromagnetic waves.—
Chelsea Gohd,
Space.com,
1 May 2026
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“Heat wave.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/heat%20wave. Accessed 3 May. 2026.
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