South Florida "feels like" triple digit temps, here's what you should be doing
Saturday will be the hottest day of the week with a forecast high of 95 in Miami
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Saturday will be the hottest day of the week with a forecast high of 95 in Miami
Last summer, hundreds of millions of people were faced with triple-digit temperatures across the U.S. This year, it could happen again.
Florida is seeing two more recent instances of state government under Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis limiting the powers of local government with newly signed bills that deal with worker safety and police oversight.
A bill signed Thursday bans local governments from requiring heat and water breaks for outdoor workers. And a bill DeSantis signed Friday strips local citizen police oversight boards from investigating officers.
DeSantis signed a bill Friday that would ban local policy advisory commissions from initiating disciplinary actions against officers, instead limiting the citizens boards to making recommendations on policy.
Climate change means wine could soon have a higher alcohol content — but spoil faster and smell worse.
We Count! said the state's bills, if approved, would strip away Miami-Dade's ability to do what is right
"One firefighter stated the heater was so hot it looked as if the basement was currently on fire," the police report said of the incident that left Joan Littlejohn and Glennwood Fowler dead.
One Mississippi peanut and cotton farmer saw crop losses of about $1.2 million.
Daniil Medvedev, of Russia, said, "You cannot imagine" how intense the heat and humidity were on-court.
Research shows that there's a direct correlation between high temperatures and hot tempers
There's also a higher risk of suicide on hotter days
Highs soar to the low to mid 90s this afternoon with the potential for a few storms.
With this week's cooler stretch of temperatures, you may have noticed that people have been less grouchy. The high heat impacts our behavior in several ways.
