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Chicago’s previous heat index record of 118 F, set July 13, 1995, stood for nearly three decades. Just before 3 p.m. Thursday, however, a heat index of 120 F was recorded at O’Hare ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) -Tens of millions of Americans were confronted with a one-two punch of brutally hot temperatures and oppressive humidity on Friday as an unrelenting heat wave settled over the ...
For the Excessive Heat Warning Saturday, dangerously hot conditions with heat index values of 110 to 112 degrees. For the Heat Advisory Sunday, heat index values up to 109 expected for North and ...
The July 1995 Chicago heat wave led to 739 heat-related deaths in Chicago over a period of five days. [1] Most of the victims of the heat wave were elderly poor residents of the city, who did not have air conditioning , or had air conditioning but could not afford to turn it on, and did not open windows or sleep outside for fear of crime. [ 2 ]
A generalized view of the heat index showing how the perception of heat by the human body increases with temperature but more rapidly at higher humidity levels. The heat index of a given combination of temperature and humidity is defined as the dry-bulb temperature which would feel the same if the water vapor pressure were 1.6 kPa. Quoting ...
More than 135 million Americans are at risk this week as a dangerous “heat dome” brings triple-digit temperatures to a swath of the US.. The heat wave is set to stretch from the Midwest to the ...
The official record high for Chicago for July 11 is also from 1936—but is recorded as just 97 °F (36 °C). Further west in what would today be the near and far suburbs (e.g. DuPage County and westward), temperatures reached a blistering 110 °F (43 °C) or still higher at points during this massive heat wave. These extreme temperatures are ...
CBS News senior weather producer David Parkinson reported early Tuesday that heat in the Chicago metro area would likely feel like 108 degrees, with temperatures in Louisville approaching triple ...