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Bookmark or Share- Heat dome is broiling the Southwest. What is it? : NPRMuch of the Southwest U.S. is experiencing extreme heat this week — with temperatures blazing past 100 degrees. And a phenomenon known as a heat dome is to blame.
- What Is a Heat Dome? - The New York TimesA heat dome is a high pressure system way up in the atmosphere that helps create and encase heat, kind of like a lid on a pot that holds in steam.
- How a heat dome can push temperatures to dangerous highsSummer is notorious for producing punishing heat waves, often referred to as heat domes. A heat dome occurs when a ridge of high pressure builds over an area and doesn’t move for up to a...
- What to Know About Heat Domes—and How Long They LastExtensive heat waves that took place last July and broke more than 2,400 temperature-highs, were due to a heat dome—a dome of high pressure that traps air and heat. A heat dome is also ...
- Heat dome - WikipediaA heat dome is a weather phenomenon consisting of extreme heat that is caused when the atmosphere traps hot air as if bounded by a lid or cap. Heat domes happen when strong high pressure atmospheric conditions remain stationary for an unusual amount of time, preventing convection and precipitation and keeping hot air "trapped" within a region.
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