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Tourists cool off in a public fountain at the Sforzesco Castle, in Milan, Italy, Saturday, July 15, 2023. Temperatures reached up to 42 degrees Celsius in some parts of the country, amid a heat wave that continues to grip southern Europe.

Heat wave bakes southern Europe, sparking warnings to stay inside, drink water and limit exercise

Tourists cool off in a public fountain at the Sforzesco Castle, in Milan, Italy, Saturday, July 15, 2023. Temperatures reached up to 42 degrees Celsius in some parts of the country, amid a heat wave that continues to grip southern Europe.

July 17, 2023, 8:03am Nation & World

Italian health officials intensified heat warnings Monday as southern Europe began a brutally hot week with temperatures expected to top 40 Celsius — or 104 Fahrenheit — on a continent already sizzling under the sun and overburdened by tourists. Read story

People watch as the sun sets behind clouds on Sunday, May 22, 2022, in Coral Springs. A patch of Saharan dust arrived late Friday and overnight Saturday, which may cause hazy conditions and hue-altered sunrises and sunsets.

Three Saharan dust clouds targeting South Florida: Here’s when they’ll get here

People watch as the sun sets behind clouds on Sunday, May 22, 2022, in Coral Springs. A patch of Saharan dust arrived late Friday and overnight Saturday, which may cause hazy conditions and hue-altered sunrises and sunsets.

July 15, 2023, 5:55pm Nation & World

We’re in the thick of Saharan dust storm season in South Florida, which is not all bad — these massive blobs of hot, dirty air roaming the Atlantic Ocean are also hurricane killers. Plus there are those pretty sunsets. Read story

Patrick Timm is a local weather specialist. His column appears Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays.

Weather Eye: Heat advisory in effect, but temperatures will ease soon

Patrick Timm is a local weather specialist. His column appears Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays.

July 15, 2023, 6:00am Clark County News

A heat advisory is in effect today as temperatures soar well into the 90s. It will be short-lived with some cooling Sunday, probably into the upper 80s, and then a weak trough of low pressure from the Gulf of Alaska pays us a brief visit on Monday. Read story

A person jogs on the Las Vegas strip during a heat advisory, Friday, July 14, 2023 in Las Vegas. Nearly a third of Americans were under extreme heat advisories, watches and warnings Friday, including in Las Vegas as a high pressure dome moves west from Texas.

Heat wave could break Vegas record as visitors stay inside chilled casinos and ER doctors are busy

A person jogs on the Las Vegas strip during a heat advisory, Friday, July 14, 2023 in Las Vegas. Nearly a third of Americans were under extreme heat advisories, watches and warnings Friday, including in Las Vegas as a high pressure dome moves west from Texas.

July 14, 2023, 5:19pm Nation & World

Visitors to Las Vegas on Friday stepped out momentarily to snap photos and were hit by blast-furnace air. But most will spend their vacations in a vastly different climate — at casinos where the chilly air conditioning might require a light sweater. Read story

Congregation member Gayle McFarland, of Montpelier, Vt., collects sodden table cloths in the basement of Bethany Church, in downtown Montpelier, Thursday, July 13, 2023. In Vermont, communities were cleaning up Thursday from the floods that were more destructive in some places than 2011's Tropical Storm Irene.

Man drowns in home in Vermont’s 1st recorded flooding death

Congregation member Gayle McFarland, of Montpelier, Vt., collects sodden table cloths in the basement of Bethany Church, in downtown Montpelier, Thursday, July 13, 2023. In Vermont, communities were cleaning up Thursday from the floods that were more destructive in some places than 2011's Tropical Storm Irene.

July 14, 2023, 7:45am Nation & World

A man who died as a result of a drowning accident in his home is Vermont’s first death related to recent storms and historic flooding, the state’s emergency management agency said. Read story

Park visitors watch the sunset on Tuesday, July 11, 2023, in Death Valley National Park, Calif. July is the hottest month at the park with an average high of 116 degrees (46.5 Celsius).

Death Valley visitors drawn to the hottest spot on Earth during ongoing U.S. heat wave

Park visitors watch the sunset on Tuesday, July 11, 2023, in Death Valley National Park, Calif. July is the hottest month at the park with an average high of 116 degrees (46.5 Celsius).

July 14, 2023, 7:40am Life

DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — As uninviting as it sounds, Death Valley National Park beckons. Read story

People spend time in a public pool in Wehrheim near Frankfurt, Germany, on a hot Saturday, July 8, 2023.

Acropolis’ midday closure leaves many tourists in the lurch as a heat wave lashes southern Europe

People spend time in a public pool in Wehrheim near Frankfurt, Germany, on a hot Saturday, July 8, 2023.

July 14, 2023, 7:28am Nation & World

Tourists in central Athens huddled under mist machines and zoo animals in Madrid were fed fruit popsicles Thursday as southern Europeans suffered through a heat wave that was projected to get much worse heading into the weekend. Read story

A man runs along a small road on the outskirts of Frankfurt, Germany, as the sun rises early Thursday, July 13, 2023.

Heat wave in southern Europe projected to worsen for weekend

A man runs along a small road on the outskirts of Frankfurt, Germany, as the sun rises early Thursday, July 13, 2023.

July 13, 2023, 8:09pm Nation & World

Tourists in central Athens huddled under mist machines and zoo animals in Madrid were fed fruit popsicles Thursday as southern Europeans suffered through a heat wave that was projected to get much worse heading into the weekend. Read story

FILE - A fisherman reels in his catch as the sun rises over the Atlantic Ocean, June 28, 2023, in Bal Harbour, Fla. An already warming Earth steamed to its hottest June on record, with global oceans setting temperature records for the third straight month, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Thursday, July 13.

Meteorologists say Earth sizzled to a global heat record in June and July has been getting hotter

FILE - A fisherman reels in his catch as the sun rises over the Atlantic Ocean, June 28, 2023, in Bal Harbour, Fla. An already warming Earth steamed to its hottest June on record, with global oceans setting temperature records for the third straight month, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Thursday, July 13.

July 13, 2023, 1:18pm Latest News

An already warming Earth steamed to its hottest June on record, smashing the old global mark by nearly a quarter of a degree (0.13 degrees Celsius), with global oceans setting temperature records for the third straight month, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Thursday. Read story

A small tractor clears water from a business as flood waters block a street, Wednesday, July 12, 2023, in Barre, Vt. Following a storm that dumped nearly two months of rain in two days, Vermonters are cleaning up from the deluge of water.

Vermont braces for more rain in wake of historic flooding

A small tractor clears water from a business as flood waters block a street, Wednesday, July 12, 2023, in Barre, Vt. Following a storm that dumped nearly two months of rain in two days, Vermonters are cleaning up from the deluge of water.

July 13, 2023, 1:18pm Nation & World

Vermont prepared for the next round of storms — and possibly a tornado — as people took advantage of calm weather Thursday to clean up from historic flooding that damaged thousands of homes, businesses and roads, and left some residents stranded. Read story