1. Redirect heat waves Versión en Español (PDF File). Table of Contents. Sunstroke Anotherterm for heat stroke. If a Heat Wave Is Predicted or Happening Slow down. http://www.redcross.org/services/disaster/keepsafe/readyheat.html

2. Heat Waves Current Road Conditions. IEMA Employment Opportunities. IEMA. 110 East Adams. Springfield, Illinois 627011109 ( 217) 782-7860. Laws and Regulations. Heat is one of the most underrated and least understood of the deadly weather phenomena. and tornadoes, a heat wave is a "silent killer". Heat deaths occur quietly, without http://www.state.il.us/iema/HeatWaves.htm

Current Illinois Weather Current Road Conditions IEMA Employment Opportunities IEMA 110 East Adams Springfield, Illinois 62701-1109 Laws and Regulations Heat is one of the most underrated and least understood of the deadly weather phenomena. In contrast to the visible, destructive and violent characteristics associated with deadly weather, like floods and tornadoes, a heat wave is a "silent killer". Heat deaths occur quietly, without headline-making destruction. Many people don't realize how deadly a heat wave can be. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that on average, 384 people die each year, nationwide from excessive heat. More than lightning, tornadoes, floods and hurricanes combined! The Urban Heat Problem Measuring the Heat What You Can Do What Your Community Can Do Send comments, questions and suggestions to: iema_webmaster@state.il.us

3. Heat Wave Awareness Project Web Resources heat waves do not evoke the same sense of widespread urgency or fright as hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, and earthquakes. on causes of heat waves and an extreme heat fact sheet. The Red Cross heat waves Web Page. This webaite describes the symptoms of heat exhaustion, heat stroke, and http://www.esig.ucar.edu/heat/web.html

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5. Droughts And Heat Waves Droughts and heat waves. 1930s. Many states longest drought of the 20th century 7, Los Angeles 8day run of 100°-plus heat left 946 people dead http://www.infoplease.com/cgi-bin/id/A0886145.html

HOTWORDS CITE PRINT EMAIL in All Infoplease Almanacs Biographies Dictionary Encyclopedia Home Almanacs Atlas Dictionary ... Father's Day Infoplease Tools Periodic Table Conversion Tool Perpetual Calendar Year by Year ... Site Map Also from Infoplease Search Infoplease Info search tips Search Biographies Bio search tips World Disasters Droughts and Heat Waves Many states: 891 people died in 14-day heat wave. an estimated 10,000 people were killed during the summer in a long heat wave and drought. Damages totaled about $20 billion. worldwide: Summer, central and eastern U.S.: 739 people died in record heat wave. severe drought in southern plains region caused $4 billion in agricultural losses; no deaths. Summer, southern U.S.: severe heat and drought spread across Tex. and Okla., all the way to N.C. and S.C. At least 200 were left dead and $6 billion to $9 billion of damage was estimated. Summer, eastern U.S.: rainfall shortages resulted in worst drought on record for Md., Del., N.J., and R.I. The state of W.Va. was declared a disaster area. 3.81 million acres were consumed by fire as of mid-Aug. Record heat throughout the country resulted in 502 deaths nationwide. severe drought and heat killed an estimated 140 people. Damages were estimated at $4 billion.

6. Drought/Heat Waves ROCKY MOUNTAIN SURVIVAL GROUP. . AN INFORMATION CLEARINGHOUSE FOR SURVIVAL SELF-RELIANCE- Droughts/heat waves. Latest Articles Listed First. Understanding and Defining Drought A discussion of the http://www.rmsg.us/ndisas~1/drought.htm

ROCKY MOUNTAIN SURVIVAL GROUP Links added daily! REMEMBER TO "REFRESH" THIS PAGE OCCASIONALLY TO VIEW NEW ADDITIONS (Use Key) As always, if you know of an article or web page that belongs here - please let us know! Back to "Articles" Back to "Natural & Manmade Disasters" Use this link to REPORT a problem with this page. Droughts/Heat Waves Latest Articles Listed First Understanding and Defining Drought A discussion of the concept and definition of drought. Drought Indices An analysis and discussion of 8 drought indices, also available as a pdf Predicting Drought The multiple causes of drought and their use in drought prediction. Drought and Climate Change A short history of the Greenhouse Effect and climate change. Drought in the Dust Bowl Years A discussion of the impacts—social, environmental, and economic—of drought in the United States in the 1930s. Understanding ENSO and Forecasting Drought A discussion of El Niño’s impacts and its relationship to drought. Reported Effects of the 1997 El Niño through October 30 An NDMC analysis of media reports. Reported Drought-related Effects of the 1997–98 El Niño for November,

7. The Heat Is Online Long before we experience protracted, detectable heat waves from global warming,we experience the effects of a more unstable climate altered drought and http://www.heatisonline.org/weather.cfm

Home News Weather Science ... Solutions Weather Overview Extreme Weather Profile: 2003 Extreme Weather Profile: 2002 Extreme Weather Profile: 2001 Extreme Weather Profile: 2000 ... US Hit by 42 Billion Dollar-plus Loss Events in 20 Years Extreme Weather Events Long before we experience protracted, detectable heat waves from global warming, we experience the effects of a more unstable climate altered drought and rainfall patterns, more intense storms, more temperature extremes, unseasonal weather events and more intense and severe downpours. Extreme Weather Profile: 2004 Findings published in the journal Science in September, 2000, reinforced previous projections of increasingly destructive weather as climate change progresses. That study follows two previous studies by Karl et al. which had established the connection between greenhouse warming and extreme weather events: " Trends in U.S. Climate during the Twentieth Century , Consequences, Spring, 1995, Vol. 1, No. 1, Thomas Karl et al. Also: The Coming Climate by Thomas R. Karl, Neville Nicholls and Jonathan Gregory, Scientific American, May, 1997. A 2003 report by the World Water Council noted a steady increase in extreme weather events over the past 40 years with "major flood disasters" rising from 7 in the 1970s, to 18 in the 1980s to 26 in the 1990s.

8. American Red Cross- Heat Wave heat waves (PDF File). The duration of excessive heat plays an importantrole in how people are affected by a heat wave. Studies http://www.redcross.org/services/disaster/keepsafe/heat.html

Disaster Services Disaster Safety Interactive Map Chemical ... Winter Storms Find Your Local Red Cross Enter Zip Code Here: Search Our Site Find Out Who Our Supporters Are Home Services ... Disaster Safety Heat Waves Heat Waves (PDF File) Why Talk About Extreme Heat? What Is Extreme Heat? Awareness Information ... What to Do During Extreme Heat Why Talk About Extreme Heat? Heat can kill by pushing the human body beyond its limits. Under normal conditions, the body's internal thermostat produces perspiration that evaporates and cools the body. However, in extreme heat and high humidity, evaporation is slowed and the body must work extra hard to maintain a normal temperature. Elderly people, young children, and those who are sick or overweight are more likely to become victims of extreme heat. Because men sweat more than women, they are more susceptible to heat illness because they become more quickly dehydrated. The duration of excessive heat plays an important role in how people are affected by a heat wave. Studies have shown that a significant rise in heat-related illnesses happens when excessive heat lasts more than two days. Spending at least two hours per day in air conditioning significantly cuts down on the number of heat-related illnesses. Studies have shown that a significant rise in heat-related illnesses happens when excessive heat lasts more than two days.

9. CNN.com - US - Heat Waves Likely To Bring More Rolling Blackouts - July 01, 2000 CNN http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/07/01/power.grid.crisis/index.html

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10. Skip Navigation Link Www.nws.noaa.gov Forecasts/Warnings. Major heat waves/Droughts. NWS Local Forecasts; 610 DayOutlook; 8-14 Day Outlook; Excessive Heat Outlooks; Seasonal Drought Outlook; http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/heat/index.shtml

www.nws.noaa.gov Site Map News Organization Search Weather Services Aviation Climate Hydro, ... Questions/Comments? Death Valley, Photo courtesy of American West Travelogue You should know what actions to take to protect yourself, family, pets and property against excessive heat and drought: Heat Index Heat Wave: A Major Summer Killer text, pdf Are You Ready for a Heat Wave? NOAA Weather Radio Be aware and be prepared! Forecasts/Warnings Major Heat Waves/Droughts NWS Local Forecasts 6-10 Day Outlook 8-14 Day Outlook Excessive Heat Outlooks ... 1995: July Heat Wave (pdf) 1993: Drought/Heat Wave in the Southeast Some files are in PDF. Click here to download a free Adobe Acrobat Reader. Weather Services Weather Awareness Data Analysis Projects/Research, ... Office of Climate, Water, and Weather Services 1325 East West Highway Silver Spring, MD 20910

11. CNN.com - The Hidden, Human Cost Of Heat Waves - August 1, 2001 CNN http://cnn.com/2001/HEALTH/08/01/heat.wave.cost/index.html

MAIN PAGE WORLD U.S. WEATHER ... ABOUT US CNN TV what's on show transcripts CNN Headline News CNN International ... askCNN EDITIONS CNN.com Asia CNN.com Europe set your edition Languages Time, Inc. Time.com People Fortune EW The hidden, human cost of heat waves ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) Every year, natural disasters wreak havoc in the United States, producing dramatic scenes and billions of dollars in damages. But while major storms and earthquakes may garner more headlines and incur heavier financial losses, a less obvious weather phenomenon heat waves produce among the highest human costs of all such disasters. Statistics gathered by the World Health Organization show that heat waves account for the two top deadliest weather-related disasters in the United States over the last decade and three of the top five. While the financial damage from a heat wave may not be as high or as evident as that caused by a hurricane or earthquake, high temperatures do come at a cost. For instance, the WHO said government agencies spent $3.7 billion on a heat wave that struck pockets of the country in summer 1998. Top 10 deadliest weather-related phenomena in U.S. from 1990-2000

12. Sterling Heat Wave Page WHAT TO DO WHEN heat waves STRIKE. Click here for the plain text version Avoid The Outdoors During Extreme Heat. Stay Out of the Sun http://www.nws.noaa.gov/er/lwx/heat.htm

www.nws.noaa.gov Site Map News Organization Search WHAT TO DO WHEN HEAT WAVES STRIKE Click here for the plain text version Increase Your Intake of Non-Alcoholic, Non-Carbonated, Caffeine Free Beverages Such as Water and Juice. Wear Clothing That is Light in Color and Loose Fitting. Avoid The Outdoors During Extreme Heat. Stay Out of the Sun. Stay in an Air-Conditioned Environment if Possible. Shopping Malls Offer Relief if Your Home is not Air-Conditioned. Check On The Elderly. They are Especially Susceptible to Heat Related Illness. Eliminate Strenuous Activity Such as Running, Biking and Lawn Care Work When it Heats Up. Eat Less Foods That Increase Metabolic Activity/Heat. Proteins are an Example. Increased Metabolic Heat Increases Water Loss. HEAT RELATED ILLNESSES AND THEIR SYMPTOMS SUNBURN - Redness and pain in the skin. In severe cases there is also swelling, blisters, fever, and headaches. HEAT CRAMPS - Heavy sweating and painful spasms usually in the leg or abdomen muscles. HEAT EXHAUSTION - The person becomes weak and is sweating heavily. The skin is cold, pale and clammy. The pulse becomes thready. Fainting and vomiting accompanies heat exhaustion.

13. Illinois Emergency Management Agency Heat Waves heat waves. Heat is one of the most underrated and least understood of the deadlyweather phenomena. Many people don t realize how deadly a heat wave can be. http://www.state.il.us/iema/prep/heatwaves.htm

Rod R Blagojevich, Governor IEMA Links Contacts Employment Opportunities Kids' Page Laws and Regulations ... Illinois Home Search Illinois [Search Tips] Heat Waves Heat is one of the most underrated and least understood of the deadly weather phenomena. In contrast to the visible, destructive and violent characteristics associated with deadly weather, like floods and tornadoes, a heat wave is a "silent killer". Heat deaths occur quietly, without headline-making destruction. Many people don't realize how deadly a heat wave can be. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that on average, 384 people die each year, nationwide from excessive heat. More than lightning, tornadoes, floods and hurricanes combined! The Urban Heat Problem Measuring the Heat What You Can Do What Your Community Can Do Preparedness Links Earthquakes Heat Waves Severe Weather Preparedness Severe Weather Preparedness Week ... Illinois Regional Law Enforcement Mutual Aid Meetings Agency Features Homeland Security Updates Successful Mitigation Activities EMA Post-Event Hazard Mitigation Strategy Report ... (FEMA-1416-DR-IL) Some files on this site are in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. You may download a FREE

14. Dying Alone In The Heat Wave, An Interview With Eric Klinenberg were in trouble? What could Chicago do differently in future heat waves? Weknow that more heat waves are coming. Every major report http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/443213in.html

"By the end of Heat Wave New Yorker Boston Globe Heat Wave Chicago Sun-Times "What makes Heat Wave such an essential book at this moment in American politics is that, using the 1995 heat wave as his paradigm, Klinenberg has written a forceful account of what it means to be poor, old, sick and alone in the era of American entrepreneurial government. . . . It's hard to pin down Heat Wave Salon.com American Prospect Times Higher Education Supplement The Nation Heat Wave Canadian Journal of Urban Research Heat Wave Dying Alone An interview with Eric Klinenberg author of Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago Question: Take us back to July 1995 in the city of Chicago. How hot was it? What were the city and its residents going through? Klinenberg: The heat made the city's roads buckle. Train rails warped, causing long commuter and freight delays. City workers watered bridges to prevent them from locking when the plates expanded. Children riding in school buses became so dehydrated and nauseous that they had to be hosed down by the Fire Department. Hundreds of young people were hospitalized with heat-related illnesses. But the elderly, and especially the elderly who lived alone, were most vulnerable to the heat wave. Question: How many people died as a result of the heat wave?

15. Klinenberg, Eric: Heat Wave Though we seldom hear about them, during a typical year more people die in heat wavesin the United States than in all other natural disasters combined. http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/14801.ctl

Go to ... Full text search Excerpts Subject catalogs Subject index ... Shopping cart contents or Print an order form Klinenberg, Eric Heat Wave A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago . 320 p., 35 halftones, 3 maps, 7 figures, 12 tables. 2002 Cloth $27.50 0-226-44321-3 Spring 2002 Paper $15.00 0-226-44322-1 Spring 2003 On Thursday, July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day in which the temperature would reach 106 degrees. The heat index, which measures how the temperature actually feels on the body, would hit 126 degrees by the time the day was over. Meteorologists had been warning residents about a two-day heat wave, but these temperatures did not end that soon. When the heat wave broke a week later, city streets had buckled; the records for electrical use were shattered; and power grids had failed, leaving residents without electricity for up to two days. And by July 20, over seven hundred people had perishedmore than twice the number that died in the Chicago Fire of 1871, twenty times the number of those struck by Hurricane Andrew in 1992in the great Chicago heat wave, one of the deadliest in American history. Though we seldom hear about them, during a typical year more people die in heat waves in the United States than in all other natural disasters combined. Until now, no one could explain either the overwhelming number or the heartbreaking manner of the deaths resulting from the 1995 Chicago heat wave. Meteorologists and medical scientists have been unable to account for the scale of the trauma, and political officials have puzzled over the sources of the city's vulnerability. In

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17. Heat Wave Awareness Project heat waves do not evoke the same sense of widespread urgency or frightas hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, and earthquakes. Heat Wave http://www.esig.ucar.edu/heat/

18. Bmj.com Keatinge 327 (7414): 512 coronary and cerebral thrombosis.6 Other deaths in heat wavesare probably due to overload of already failing to be at risk in American heat waves. So arepatients taking http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/327/7414/512

Home Help Search/Archive Feedback ... Table of Contents BMJ 2003;327:512-513 (6 September), doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7414.512 PDF of this article Email this article to a friend Respond to this article Read responses to this article Related letters in BMJ PubMed citation Related articles in PubMed Download to Citation Manager This article has been cited by other articles Citation Map Search Medline for articles by: Keatinge, W. R Alert me when: New articles cite this article Collections under which this article appears: Other geriatric medicine Environmental Issues Editorial Death in heat waves Simple preventive measures may help reduce mortality Increasing evidence shows that atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are rising and are causing global warming. Record air temperatures were recorded in Britain during the last month. Accurate estimates of the consequences of these must wait until daily mortality data are available, but press reports indicate that the hot weather caused around 1000 deaths during one week alone in Britain and perhaps 10 000 overall in France, where temperatures were

19. Detroit S Killer Heat Wave Of 1936 Detroit s killer heat wave of 1936 By George Cantor / The Detroit News. Soonthe memory receded and blended in with other heat waves. http://info.detnews.com/history/story/index.cfm?id=134&category=life

20. Sterling Heat Wave Page WHAT TO DO WHEN heat waves STRIKE. Click here for the plain text version.Increase Your Intake of NonAlcoholic, Non-Carbonated, Caffeine http://www.erh.noaa.gov/er/lwx/heat.htm

www.nws.noaa.gov Site Map News Organization Search WHAT TO DO WHEN HEAT WAVES STRIKE Click here for the plain text version Increase Your Intake of Non-Alcoholic, Non-Carbonated, Caffeine Free Beverages Such as Water and Juice. Wear Clothing That is Light in Color and Loose Fitting. Avoid The Outdoors During Extreme Heat. Stay Out of the Sun. Stay in an Air-Conditioned Environment if Possible. Shopping Malls Offer Relief if Your Home is not Air-Conditioned. Check On The Elderly. They are Especially Susceptible to Heat Related Illness. Eliminate Strenuous Activity Such as Running, Biking and Lawn Care Work When it Heats Up. Eat Less Foods That Increase Metabolic Activity/Heat. Proteins are an Example. Increased Metabolic Heat Increases Water Loss. HEAT RELATED ILLNESSES AND THEIR SYMPTOMS SUNBURN - Redness and pain in the skin. In severe cases there is also swelling, blisters, fever, and headaches. HEAT CRAMPS - Heavy sweating and painful spasms usually in the leg or abdomen muscles. HEAT EXHAUSTION - The person becomes weak and is sweating heavily. The skin is cold, pale and clammy. The pulse becomes thready. Fainting and vomiting accompanies heat exhaustion.

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