Health Officials Urge Residents to Take Precautions Ahead of Dangerous Heat Wave
Across the region emergency officials are preparing for the dangerous heat.
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Across the region emergency officials are preparing for the dangerous heat.
The National Weather Service warns this could be one of the worst heat waves in decades.
Six days of scorching weather and an end is in sight. But it's still hot. People around Baltimore describe how they're dealing with the heat as they anticipate those cooler temps.
A woman suffering from heat exhaustion on a sailboat near Annapolis has been taken to the hospital.
The heat wave we've been dealing with this week will last for a few more days, although we're going to see some thunderstorm activity begin to creep into the picture, too.
Worcester County has canceled a burn ban that has been in effect since the first week in July.
While heat waves like the one we're currently sweltering in have impacts on land, it's also being felt on the water.
The heat, combined with a lack of rain, is causing serious problems for some Maryland growers.
The heat has arrived, once again. We started our next heat wave today. Our high hit 95 degrees at BWI-Marshall this afternoon. We will only drop to the mid 70s overnight before going right back up to the mid 90s again tomorrow.
The record heat created major problems on local roads.
The heat wave that hit the Mid-Atlantic is showing some signs of letting up with relatively cooler temperatures this week. But the region is still seeing the cumulative effects of the extreme heat. Thirteen people have now died of heat-related illnesses during this stretch of brutally hot days, many of them in Baltimore City.
The Maryland health department is reporting that the death toll in this heat wave now stands at 13.
The heat that blanketed much of the U.S. began to ease up from unbearable to merely very hot Sunday as temperatures from the Midwest to the East Coast dropped from highs above 100 degrees down to the 90s.
Thousands of residents in the mid-Atlantic region still remain without power more than a week after deadly summer storms struck the area.
Americans dipped into the water, went to the movies and rode the subway just to be in air conditioning Saturday for relief from unrelenting heat that has killed 30 people across half the country.
Maryland emergency management officials say cooling centers are opening across the state to help residents cope with the extreme heat. They will have cool air and free water for residents.
Excessive heat warnings are in effect for the mid-Atlantic region with temperatures expected to feel like 110 degrees in the Baltimore-Washington area.
It's been a week since a massive storm shut the lights off in Maryland, and thousands are still braving the heat without air conditioning.
Worcester County on Maryland's Eastern Shore has issued a burn ban and officials in nearby Talbot County are asking residents to avoid burning because of increased risk of fire during the current heat wave.
Five days after a wicked windstorm walloped Maryland, thousands remain in the dark. Hundreds of BGE crews are working to restore power but patience is wearing thin.
More than 75,000 people are spending the Fourth of July without electricity or air conditioning. Widespread power outages continue, five days after a violent storm.
This unusually hot weather is taking its toll.
Utility crews are struggling to catch up with a backlog of millions of people without electricity for a fourth hot day.
Day three and the lights are still out for tens of thousands. The heat turned deadly as cleanup continues around the region from this monstrous storm.
The residents of four nursing homes in Maryland are feeling the heat, because they are still without air conditioning in the aftermath of last week's storm.
