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    A heat dome is a weather phenomenon consisting of extreme heat that is caused when the atmosphere traps hot ocean air, as if bounded by a lid or cap. Heat...
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    Urban areas usually experience the urban heat island (UHI) effect, that is, they are significantly warmer than surrounding rural areas. The temperature...
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    quickly than usual, which intensified the ridge so strongly it caused a heat dome. Indeed, on June 27, the height at which 500 hPa air pressure was sustained...
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    The 1936 North American heat wave was one of the most severe heat waves in the modern history of North America. It took place in the middle of the Great...
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    taken to hospital emergency departments, 5,261 of whom were admitted. The heat dome was attributed to climate change and La Niña. In June 2022, high pressure...
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  • Paraguay, and Uruguay set records for July temperatures. There was a heat dome above Paraguay associated with the unusual weather, which was also exacerbated...
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    with vigorous lightning activity. Atmospheric convection Flammagenitus Heat dome "A Photo-Essay on the Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki". University of...
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    The Dome of the Rock (Arabic: قبة الصخرة, romanized: Qubbat aṣ-Ṣaḵra) is an Islamic shrine at the center of the Al-Aqsa mosque compound on the Temple Mount...
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    geodesic dome is a hemispherical thin-shell structure (lattice-shell) based on a geodesic polyhedron. The rigid triangular elements of the dome distribute...
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  • Dome A or Dome Argus is the highest ice dome on the Antarctic Plateau, located 1,200 km (750 mi) inland. It is thought to be the coldest naturally occurring...
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    parts of western Russia, due to the heat dome effect. Anticyclone conditions over Russia resemble those in the 2010 heat waves, with parts of Siberia were...
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    the expected hot conditions will not approach those reached during the 'Heat Dome' of late June 2021". On May 13, the hamlet of Arviat, Nunavut reached...
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  • to solar radiation. These are one result of urban heat islands: pollutants concentrate in a dust dome because convection lifts pollutants into the air...
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    Record-setting U.S. heat dome places 126 million under alerts, Axios, August 22, 2023. "Chicago roasting in record-setting heat that feels like 120 degrees"...
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    parallel to the isobars. Weather portal Anticyclonic storm – Type of storm Heat dome – weather phenomenonPages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback...
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    temperatures (likely exacerbated by climate change) to form a heat dome, which drove the local heat index to historic highs. In early June 2023, a LUMA Energy...
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    Retrieved October 10, 2009. Gibbens, Sarah (June 29, 2021). "What is a heat dome? Pacific Northwest swelters in record temperatures". National Geographic...
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    asphalt and dark roofs, anthropogenic heat from cars and less natural environments, thereby creating a "heat dome" that blocks the cooler air from the...
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    migmatite (a metamorphic-texture rock frequently found in domes due to the typical involvement of heat and/or pressure with their formation). The intrusion...
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    station of Bologna Borgo Panigale (at the airport), unaffected by the heat dome of the city, for both 1961–1990 and 1991–2020 periods, in order to highlight...
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    February 19, 2015. Hasenstab, Alex (February 10, 2022). "Oregon's 2021 heat dome notches another record". Oregon Public Broadcasting. Retrieved July 13...
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    December 10, 2006. Hasenstab, Alex (February 10, 2022). "Oregon's 2021 heat dome notches another record". Oregon Public Broadcasting. "U.S. Climate Normals...
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    temperature that day being 40.0 °C (104.0 °F) in Kapelle-op-den-Bos. The heat dome which caused extreme temperatures in north-west Europe was expected to...
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    layers from Mount Takahe have also been found at Dome C, Dome F, Mount Takahe itself, Mount Waesche, Siple Dome and elsewhere in Antarctica. Apart from ice...
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  • the human death and damage to the economy caused by single events like heat domes, fires and floods. We are trying to save what you hold dear. Join us....
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    November 2009. "Drought". Archived from the original on 15 January 2012. ‘Heat dome’ surrounding Australian CBDs leave suburbs to scorch Archived 3 March...
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  • Kato), has set up the Muscle Dome, an underground fight ring where his champion, Lee Son-Min (Ken Lo), uses Blood Heat and goes through his opponents...
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    In 2022, several areas of the world experienced heat waves. Heat waves were especially notable in East Asia, the Indian subcontinent, Australia, western...
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    Igloo (category Domes)
    and heat loss when the door is opened. Animal skins or a snow block can be used as a door. The igloo is architecturally unique in that it is a dome that...
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    direct cause of the heat is that, under high pressure, the air subsides (sinks) toward the surface. This sinking air acts as a dome capping the atmosphere...
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