Across the United States, the line between routine summer heat and life‑threatening disaster is getting thinner. As ...

It's a sizzling start to the third week of August as several million people across the central U.S. face potentially deadly heat. While it is forecast to ease in the coming days in the middle of the ...

Hot summers are nothing new for much of the United States, but the combination of heat and humidity has taken on a truly antagonistic role this year, pushing us closer to our melting points in an ...

Heat waves are becoming commonplace, and so too is high humidity, which can strain the electrical grid, hurt the economy, and endanger human health. But the global prevalence of record-breaking ...

A long stretch of humid heat followed by intense thunderstorms is a weather pattern historically seen mostly in and around the tropics. But climate change is making humid heat waves and extreme storms ...

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) — The dangers of heat and humidity are so well known it’s become cliche to mention them. But the impacts can extend farther than even scientists and doctors realized. In a ...

Wednesday will have heat, showers and a high risk of rip currents at area beaches. Temperatures will be in the low-to-mid 90s with heat indices peaking between 101 to 106 degrees, according to NWS ...