Cooling Centers and 7 Tips to Keep Cool in a Heat Wave ANALYSIS by Dr. Don Donahue, Director, Firestorm Healthcare Response Team   A heat wave impacting the eastern United States with record temperatures is set to continue while downed power lines from Indiana to Maryland due to an intense weekend weather system have left more than 3 million customers without power. Although the winds are as damaging as a hurricane’s, a deracho doesn’t give the advance notice in the way a hurricane does, so many businesses and communities were taken by surprise by the intensity of the hurricane-force winds and subsequent damage. High temperatures coupled with high humidity pushed the heat index to range between 105 and 115 degrees, according to the National Weather Service. Heat advisories remained in effect into Sunday across the southeast and lower half of the Mississippi valley, wi...

Health Matters - 7 Tips to Keep Cool in a Heat Wave   HEADLINE: Killer Heat Wave Moves to Northeast, MidAtlantic SUMMARY: As fires ravage Arizona and sweltering heat settles into many areas across the country, a new study published in the journal Climate Change by Stanford scientists finds that large areas of the globe will warm up so quickly that even the coolest summers will be hotter than the hottest summers of the past 50 years. Several deaths have been reported and the National Weather Service warned that the heat wave would bring temperatures in the 90s and triple digits with high humidity to the East Coast and Southeast for several days. Story Link from ABC News   ANALYSIS by Dr. Don Donahue, Director, Firestorm Healthcare Response Team Many factors influence weather: La Niña, El Niño, the Jet Stream, cyclic warming and cooling trends, major volcanic eruption...