heat-waves

Even in late September temperatures have reached 30C, although strangely these blistering hot late heat-waves mostly came in the early 20th century rather than more recent decades when warm autumns were more common.

Weatherwatch: September by the sea 2011

Costs include those related to losses from declining agricultural production, heat-waves, droughts, flooding events, extreme precipitation, biodiversity loss, disease spread, and soil erosion.

Matthew Yglesias » The Limits to Growth 2010

Tim Hagan stared at the shimmering heat-waves of the desert and tried to solve the problem.

CHAPTER V 2010

The other issue is the severe winters and killer heat-waves where a bike is useless and you end up using the Street cars or Subway trains that suck-up power and add to the polution and GHG production.

Bike Rental Scheme You Say? In Toronto You Say? « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2009

Not sure what... droughts, heat-waves in summer... famines, actual measurable acceleration in the sea-level changes.

Rabett Run EliRabett 2009

And, clearly, storms and heat-waves are every bit as real as dogs and oranges.

Process Philosophy Rescher, Nicholas 2008

Take a song like ‘Through Clouds of Fire’ as an example ; sheets of cleansing fire billow outwards, singeing and blistering all within reach, exemplified by bursts of grainy detonations and their aftermaths, the searing heat roiling out in furnace intense heat-waves ; aided and abetted by a piercing anguished scream of pain riding the billows, pain that is both descriptive of spiritual pain and also the righteous pain of an angered deity.

01 « June « 2008 « Niqnaq 2008

Take a song like ‘Through Clouds of Fire’ as an example ; sheets of cleansing fire billow outwards, singeing and blistering all within reach, exemplified by bursts of grainy detonations and their aftermaths, the searing heat roiling out in furnace intense heat-waves ; aided and abetted by a piercing anguished scream of pain riding the billows, pain that is both descriptive of spiritual pain and also the righteous pain of an angered deity.

yet another barzel review 2008

This would be a huge step forward in understanding, but it would also suggest that land-cover changes have already had significant climatic effects ever since forest-clearing & agriculture started (ex., the US 1930s dust-bowl/heat-waves), and hence humans for millenium have been living & adjusting to its effects (w/the pure radiational effects of increased CO2 recently not being a particularly big player).

Pielke's Challenge « Climate Audit 2005

In heat-waves burned that board 102 to the boss, and the breastplate failed to shelter at all the spear-thane young.

Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere 2003