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    A heat dome is a weather phenomenon consisting of extreme heat that is caused when the atmosphere traps hot air as if bounded by a lid or cap. Heat domes...
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    Urban areas usually experience the urban heat island (UHI) effect, that is, they are significantly warmer than surrounding rural areas. The temperature...
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    were not as extreme as in the regions farther north. The heat wave was characterized as a heat dome because of the extreme temperatures and the exceptionally...
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  • heat-related ailments. Another 173 people were killed in the United States. The hot season in Mexico began on 17 March 2024. In May 2024, a heat dome...
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    The 1936 North American heat wave was one of the most severe heat waves in the modern history of North America. It took place in the middle of the Great...
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    taken to hospital emergency departments, 5,261 of whom were admitted. The heat dome was attributed to climate change and La Niña. In June 2022, high pressure...
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  • flooding around the edges of the ridge. It is a similar phenomenon to the heat dome, and the two typically coincide as functions of strong areas of high atmospheric...
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    with vigorous lightning activity. Atmospheric convection Flammagenitus Heat dome "A Photo-Essay on the Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki". University of...
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  • Paraguay, and Uruguay set records for July temperatures. There was a heat dome above Paraguay associated with the unusual weather, which was also exacerbated...
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    geodesic dome is a hemispherical thin-shell structure (lattice-shell) based on a geodesic polyhedron. The rigid triangular elements of the dome distribute...
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    had its slowest start since 2014. This was due to a large stationary heat dome over Central America and Mexico, as tropical cyclogenesis in June often...
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    asphalt and dark roofs, anthropogenic heat from cars and less natural environments, thereby creating a "heat dome" that blocks the cooler air from the...
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    off to the slowest start since 2014. This was due to a large stationary heat dome over Central America and Mexico, as tropical cyclogenesis in June often...
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  • Dome A or Dome Argus is the highest ice dome on the Antarctic Plateau, located 1,200 km (750 mi) inland. It is thought to be the coldest naturally occurring...
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  • "Northeast and Midwest prepare for dangerously hot temperatures and heat dome - CBS News". www.cbsnews.com. June 17, 2024. Retrieved December 4, 2024...
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    parallel to the isobars. Weather portal Anticyclonic storm – Type of storm Heat dome – Weather phenomenon Barometric ridge – Elongated region of high atmospheric...
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    station of Bologna Borgo Panigale (at the airport), unaffected by the heat dome of the city, for both 1961–1990 and 1991–2020 periods, in order to highlight...
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    The Dome of the Rock (Arabic: قبة الصخرة, romanized: Qubbat aṣ-Ṣaḵra) is an Islamic shrine at the center of the Al-Aqsa mosque compound on the Temple Mount...
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    February 19, 2015. Hasenstab, Alex (February 10, 2022). "Oregon's 2021 heat dome notches another record". Oregon Public Broadcasting. Retrieved July 13...
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    parts of western Russia, due to the heat dome effect. Anticyclone conditions over Russia resemble those in the 2010 heat waves, with parts of Siberia were...
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    warning hazardous seas watch heat dome The effect created by Earth's atmosphere trapping hot ocean air like a lid or cap. heat burst A rare phenomenon involving...
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  • Development. After the 2021 heat dome in British Columbia, she created a research group to investigate how the heat dome affected wildlife and ecosystems...
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    temperatures (likely exacerbated by climate change) to form a heat dome, which drove the local heat index to historic highs. In early June 2023, a LUMA Energy...
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    migmatite (a metamorphic-texture rock frequently found in domes due to the typical involvement of heat and/or pressure with their formation). The intrusion...
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    the expected hot conditions will not approach those reached during the 'Heat Dome' of late June 2021". On May 13, the hamlet of Arviat, Nunavut reached...
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  • Kato), has set up the Muscle Dome, an underground fight ring where his champion, Lee Son-Min (Ken Lo), uses Blood Heat and goes through his opponents...
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    December 10, 2006. Hasenstab, Alex (February 10, 2022). "Oregon's 2021 heat dome notches another record". Oregon Public Broadcasting. "U.S. Climate Normals...
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    temperature that day being 40.0 °C (104.0 °F) in Kapelle-op-den-Bos. The heat dome which caused extreme temperatures in north-west Europe was expected to...
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    area used air conditioning. Several major heat waves in the 2010s and 2020s, including the June 2021 heat dome that set record temperatures in the state...
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    including the discovery of a "minor amount" of asbestos. During the heat dome in June 2024, one of the towers had the water supply cut for 13 hours...
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