A heat wave is a prolonged period of excessively
hot weather, which may be accompanied by high humidity[1].
Heatwaves are caused by very hot humid days with very little
almost no air movement helping cool things down. As we all know air moves and
that’s why we get different temperatures, thus when the air isn’t moving the
hot air on a hot day remains the same for several days causing a heat wave. In
some places heat waves are a common phenomenon and are therefore not
considering extreme weather, in other places (Europe’s extreme heatwave in
2003) heatwaves are classified deadly.
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