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Kansas City weather can keep you on your toes, from heat waves to icy winter storms.
—Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 3 Jan. 2025
As the world faces increasingly extreme weather, research is finding that heat waves are being underestimated in some parts of the world.
—Lauren Sommer, NPR, 24 Dec. 2024
Extreme weather events from heat waves to hurricanes have been exacerbated by global warming.
—Susan F. Lu,
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wenzheng Mao, Harvard Business Review, 27 Nov. 2024
Across the country, once-in-a-lifetime climactic events have become regular occurrences: extreme heat waves in Arizona, fires in Hawaii, floods in Vermont.
—Colleen Hamilton, Them, 11 Dec. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1893, in the meaning defined above
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“Heat wave.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/heat%20wave. Accessed 15 Jan. 2025.
Kids Definition
heat wave
noun
: a period of unusually hot weather
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