Heat waves and heat domes: What to know about rising temperatures [OOow45qxkGg]
(23 Jun 2026) FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: 4667831 ASSOCIATED PRESS ARCHIVE: Pula, Croatia – 2 July 2025 1. Woman waving a fan ASSOCIATED PRESS Boulder, Colorado – 2 July 2025 2. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Henson, meteorologist at Yale Climate Connections: ++COVERED++ “A heat wave is a stretch of days in which temperatures are far enough above normal to really cause problems.” ASSOCIATED PRESS ARCHIVE: Athens, Greece - 9 July 2025 3. Close of sign at pharmacy reading: 44C (111.2 degrees Fahrenheit) 4. Hellenic Red Cross volunteers distributing water and giving instructions ASSOCIATED PRESS Boulder, Colorado – 2 July 2025 5. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Henson, meteorologist at Yale Climate Connections: ++PARTIALLY COVERED++ “So the greenhouse gases that humans have been adding to the atmosphere for more than 100 years are warming the climate, and as you might expect, that's affecting heat waves. When heat wavs happen, they're tending to last longer, tending be stronger, and often more intense.” ASSOCIATED PRESS ARCHIVE: Newburgh, Indiana - 8 April 2025 6. Various of the coal-fired Warrick Power Plant ASSOCIATED PRESS ARCHIVE: Athens, Greece - 9 July 2025 7. Tourist covering her head with a fan ASSOCIATED PRESS Boulder, Colorado – 2 July 2025 8. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Henson, meteorologist at Yale Climate Connections: ++PARTIALLY COVERED++ “We tend to think of deadly weather events as the things that are dramatic and visual, like a hurricane or a tornado. Heat can be just as dangerous and every bit as deadly.” ASSOCIATED PRESS ARCHIVE: Horseshoe Beach, Florida - 28 September 2024 9. Various drone shots of debris and damage after Hurricane Helene ASSOCIATED PRESS ARCHIVE: Banpur, Uttar Pradesh - 17 June 2023 10. Paramedics giving water to patient with signs of heat stroke inside ambulance 11. Patient being transferred from ambulance to hospital ASSOCIATED PRESS Boulder, Colorado – 2 July 2025 12. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Henson, meteorologist at Yale Climate Connections: ++PARTIALLY COVERED++ “When you hear the term heat dome, it's usually people referring to a large mass of hot air that extends not just at the surface but up several miles and it can expand over hundreds of miles horizontally. Within that zone you've got usually not many clouds to block the sun, so full sunshine, you often have air descending and that not It not only tends to warm the air, but it makes it harder for it to rain.” ASSOCIATED PRESS 13. ANIMATED GAPHIC illustrating a heat dome ASSOCIATED PRESS Boulder, Colorado – 2 July 2025 14. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Henson, meteorologist at Yale Climate Connections: ++PARTIALLY COVERED++ “So it's one thing to deal with a really hot day and get through it, get home, get some relief. But especially if you don't have air conditioning at home, you may be in a heat wave where the temperature doesn't get below 80 Fahrenheit (26.6 degrees Celsius) at night. And so that accumulated impact on your body is really hard, especially on older people, folks with health conditions that are pre-existing.” ASSOCIATED PRESS ARCHIVE: Veracruz, Mexico - 16 June 2024 15. 82-year-old woman trying to cool down at her home in downtown Veracruz 16. Woman wiping her sweat and sitting on bed 17. Various elderly women resting in a nursing home 18. Various elderly people resting next to a fan ASSOCIATED PRESS Boulder, Colorado – 2 July 2025 19. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Henson, meteorologist at Yale Climate Connections: ++COVERED++ ASSOCIATED PRESS ARCHIVE: Karachi, Pakistan - 17 May 2025 ASSOCIATED PRESS Find out more about AP Archive: Twitter: Facebook: Instagram: You can license this story through AP Archive: