Heat Wave

From historic drought and water restrictions to heat waves and extreme storms, homeowners are having to find ways to make their homes more water and energy resilient. And ready to help them navigate the changing climate are thousands of small businesses leading the charge on climate-conscious home improvement.

America sizzled through some hot nights last month, enough to make history.

Climate Central’s Climate Shift Index shows the “fingerprints” of climate change — showing how its impacts, like lingering overnight heat, can cause heat waves. LX News climate storyteller Chase Cain explains.

Through extreme heat and freezing cold, it’s important to have a reliable electricity plan. We learn more about how Reliant is ensuring Texans feel informed and prepared this summer. MORE: Reliant.com/Degrees

There’s a noticeable difference at North Texas lakes: water levels are down. Here is what it’s going to take to bring those levels back to normal.

July finished as the third-warmest July on record at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. The average high was 102.4 degrees, which is almost seven degrees above normal. This July calendar shows the high temperatures over the past month. Only four days were below 100 degrees. Only two days the high was lower than normal. The overnight lows in July were also…

The Biden administration is launching a new website to help communities dealing with extreme heat. Heat.gov provides the public and decision-makers with information and tools to understand and reduce the health risks associated with extreme heat.

There’s a new website that federal officials hope can help people and local governments beat the heat and keep it from getting deadly.

Record-breaking temperatures forecast as heat wave blasts across the United States

A partnership between Meals on Wheels of Tarrant County and TXU Energy provides free window air conditioning units to Meals on Wheels clients in need.

Climate change makes extreme weather more frequent and intense, and heat waves are no exception. Each day. Climate Central’s new Climate Shift Index shows you where weather patterns are most connected to climate change. Climate storyteller Chase Cain joins LX News host Marcel Clarke to show the index and how it depicts Texas and New Mexico during this heat...

Summers are getting hotter each year in the U.S., with warming increasing the fastest in the western and southwestern parts of the country. Climate change is making extreme weather events more intense and more frequent, whether they are droughts or heat, explains NBC 5 meteorologist Samantha Davies. She joined LX News Now to discuss the Texas heat.

Crews worked through the night to fill a gaping sinkhole that opened up on a Bronx street Tuesday, swallowing an entire van as severe weather slammed the tri-state area with flash floods and torrential rain, but authorities say at this point it doesn’t appear that weather was a factor. It was a disappearing act that no one expected — a…

Britain shattered its record for highest temperature ever registered Tuesday amid a heat wave that has seared swaths of Europe — and the national weather forecaster predicted it would get hotter still in a country ill prepared for such extremes.

A passenger shared this footage of wildfires surrounding his train in Spain. Firefighters are battling wildfires in Spain, Portugal and France.

The British government was holding an emergency response meeting to plan for record high temperatures next week after authorities issued their first-ever “red” warning for extreme heat.

Afer a brief break and a little rain Thursday, the heat wave will resume Friday. Sunny and hot weather is anticipated through the weekend.

Perhaps the only thing rising higher than the heat these days is what people are paying for their electric bills

A heat wave that’s already lasted more than a week keeps on baking the U.S., Asia and even the Arctic.

These next few days, North Texas will feel some of the hottest temperatures in a long time.