Heat and Heat Waves
How Heat Waves are Changing Tourism in Europe
It was the middle of July, peak summer travel season, and the news from Europe wasn’t looking good: A heat-induced “surface defect” briefly closed the runway at London’s Luton Airport. Trains were delayed or canceled across Britain because of overheated tracks. More than two dozen weather stations in France recorded their highest-ever temperatures. And wildfires […]
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Pacific Northwest Restaurants Struggle as Temperatures Spike
On Wednesday, the temperature in the tight kitchen at Blotto, a pizza restaurant in Seattle, reached 108 degrees. Like many restaurants in the city, Blotto does not have air-conditioning. Facing due west, it gets hours of the summer-afternoon sunlight. The pizzeria’s owners, Jordan Koplowitz and Caleb Hoffmann, work in the kitchen, easily the hottest area […]
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Triple-Digit Temperatures Break Records in the Northeast
Several cities in the Northeast saw record-high daily temperatures on Sunday as a nationwide scorching peaked in many places around the United States. As of 3 p.m., the temperature in Newark had hit 101 degrees, exceeding the previous daily record for July 24 of 99 degrees, set in 2010, according to the National Weather Service. […]
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Delay as the New Denial: The Latest Republican Tactic to Block Climate Action
WASHINGTON — One hundred million Americans from Arizona to Boston are under heat emergency warnings, and the drought in the West is nearing Dust Bowl proportions. Britain declared a climate emergency as temperatures soared above 100 degrees Fahrenheit and parts of blistering Europe are ablaze. But on Capitol Hill this week, Republicans were warning against […]
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Extreme Heat Puts Life on Hold in Britain, a Land Not Built for It
LONDON — Trains slowed to a crawl. Schools and doctors’ offices shut their doors. The British Museum closed its galleries. Buckingham Palace curtailed the changing of the guard. And the government urged people to work from home. Much of Britain took an involuntary siesta on Monday as merciless heat filtered north from a fire-ravaged European […]
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Extreme Heat Continues Its March Across Western Europe
LONDON — The weather maps for Europe were blood red on Sunday as heat that has been baking Spain and Italy and fanning fires in southwest France worked its way north toward Britain. In London, it was warm, in the high 80s, but temperatures on Monday and Tuesday were forecast to hit 100 or higher […]
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Deadly Glacier Collapse in Italy Shows Reach of Europe’s New Heat
CANAZEI, Italy — Days before a glacier in the Italian Dolomites broke off with the force of a collapsing skyscraper, crushing at least 10 hikers under an avalanche of ice, snow and rock, Carlo Budel heard water running under the ice. “I heard what sounded like a river’s torrent,” said Mr. Budel, who lives in […]
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In South Asia, Climate Change Worries Take On Fresh Urgency
FATEHGARH-SAHIB, India — When the unseasonably heavy rains flooded the fields, and then the equally unseasonable heat shriveled the seeds, it didn’t just slash Ranjit Singh’s wheat harvest by nearly half. It put him, and nearly all the other households in his village in northern India, that much further from financial stability in a country […]
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Alaska Town Records 67 Degree Temperature, a December Record
In a holiday season of extreme weather events, this one stands out: a 67-degree Fahrenheit reading in Alaska the day after Christmas. The reading on Sunday, from a tidal station on Kodiak Island, set a statewide temperature record for December, the National Weather Service reported. The temperature at the station, in southern Alaska, reached the […]
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