Weather

Washington Post - A blistering late-summer heat wave that is moving east across the Midwest and toward the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast could set scores of records through Thursday.In the Midwest and Ohio Valley, many locations could see their hottest weather of the year during the last days of climatological summer, which spans June to August. Temperatures could also approach 100 degrees east of the Appalachians by Wednesday.  

EcoWatch - In an extreme flooding event across eight districts in Bangladesh, roughly three million people have been left stranded. According to Bangladeshi newspaper The Daily Star, locals reported not having seen such severe flooding in 37 years.

Time - The number of heat-related deaths in the U.S. increased 117% between 1999 and 2023, according to new research. The research comes after a summer of scorching temperatures and heat waves in the U.S.Research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association on Monday found that the number of annual heat-related deaths jumped from 1,069 in 1999 to 2,325 in 2023. In total, there were 21,518 heat-related deaths in that 24-year period. In the last seven years alone, researchers found a sharp increase in heat-related deaths, coinciding with record-breaking high temperatures.

Researchers analyzed data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on all heat-related deaths recorded in the country from 1999-2023. The number of deaths fluctuated year-to-year, but researchers found that heat-related deaths increased by 16.8% per year from 2016-2023.