#heat-wave

Summer Arrives in BC

It’s too damn hot to want to do anything, really. Just when you think you’ve adjusted, some internal thermostat finally clicking over to “This is Fine,” the humidity kicks up another ten percent or the breeze you were depending on just to be able to breathe drops away or the thermometer slides up another degree or two. And then you’re right back where you started, standing in front of the floor…

Heat Wave by wildwinters

Italy, 2018. Summer in Italy is sticky, especially in Marina di Pietrasanta. Louis Tomlinson, a soft and independent omega, goes to spend his holidays there with his daughter Alice. He has rented a vacation home built on a large estate owned by one Harry Styles, a kind-hearted alpha who is not very fond of children, but he tries.

Heat wave in India, highs 6-10 degrees above average

NEW DELHI – The unusual heat wave that has been gripping northern India for the past two weeks shows no sign of abating. The IMD, India Meteorological Department, predicts that maximum temperatures will remain flat at an average of 40 degrees over the next fifteen days. “The prolongation of the heat wave is an anomalous phenomenon,” says meteorologist Mahesh Palawat, vice president of the Skymet…

Extreme, dangerous heat in the Southwest U.S. could break records this weekend

Sheena, a Asian elephant, gets a cold water spray shower from elephant keeper Corey Barr, at the Phoenix Zoo on June 2, 2016, in Phoenix. Image: Ross D. Franklin/AP An uncommonly serious heat wave is forecasted to roast the Southwest starting late today and lasting into next. At the peak of the heat, Phoenix might come close to its all-time record high temperature level of 122 degrees Fahrenheit,…