hot weather

Nearly half a billion children are facing twice as many days of extreme heat each year — or more — than their grandparents did, the UN said Tuesday, warning of deadly consequences. As climate change continues to push up temperatures…
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Pilgrims have remained inventive in their quest for comfort, despite Saudi Arabia’s diligent efforts to mitigate the sweltering heat at the holy sites. Alongside the Kingdom’s measures — which include extensive cooling systems — pilgrims…
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Saudi spokesperson warned of rising temperatures reaching 48ºC as pilgrims gear up for Hajj this week, state news agency SPA reported on Tuesday. Muhammad Al-Abdulaali, the health ministry’s spokesperson, said high temperatures pose “a…
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Heat-related deaths and strokes during the Hajj have fallen by 47.6 and 74.6 percent respectively over a 40-year period because of the interventions by the Saudi Arabia government, according to a study published in May this year. The…
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Delivery riders in the UAE will have more comfortable midday breaks during the hot summer months with the 6,000 rest stations to be opened across the Emirates, in partnership with various government entities and private sector companies.…
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The Saudi National Center for Meteorology announced on Tuesday that this year’s Hajj weather at the holy sites is expected to be extremely hot with strong surface winds during the day, which may cause dust and sandstorms at times,…
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Sizzling heat across Asia and the Middle East in late April that echoed last year’s destructive swelter was made 45 times more likely in some parts of the continent because of human-caused climate change, a study Tuesday found. Scorching…
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A pair of Siberian tigers pant incessantly beside a pond at their zoo enclosure in the scorching summer heat of the Iraqi capital. Temperatures on Monday breached 50 degrees Celsius (122 Fahrenheit) in Baghdad for the second day in a row…
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The planet’s temperature spiked on Tuesday to its hottest day in decades and likely centuries, and Wednesday could become the third straight day Earth unofficially marks a record-breaking high. It’s the latest in a series of climate-change…
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An expert in the field of smart phone technology provided a set of tips to prevent the phone from overheating in hot weather, and a set of instructions to reduce its temperature if this happens. And the expert, Alexei Vershiyagin, talked…
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