Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday announced the launch of a new, first-in-the-nation tool to forecast and rank heat severity in ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif — California has launched a new rating system to help people prepare for extreme heat events in the state, ...

The National Weather Service HeatRisk map shows “major” and “extreme” heat risk – shaded in red and purple, respectively – across most of California on Friday, July 5, 2024.

A map shared by the National Weather Service on Monday night shows the highest temperatures in California ... one-fifth of the U.S. population, are under some type of heat advisory this week.

Jordan King is a Newsweek reporter based in London, U.K. Her current focus is on religion, health, food safety and population ... English. California is set to experience a heat wave over the ...

California's Mosquito Fire broke out in the Tahoe National Forest near the Oxbow Reservoir, 3 miles east of Foresthill, in Placer County amid a scorching heat ... has a population of about 3,000 ...

California is one of several states forecast to fall victim to the first major U.S. heat wave of 2024 this week, with the ...

According to the science communications firm Climate Central, human-caused climate change has made this week’s heat wave in California at least five times as probable. The maps that follow help ...

seven extreme heat waves between 2013 and 2022 resulted in nearly 460 deaths, 5,000 hospitalizations, and 344 adverse birth outcomes, affecting nearly the entire population of California.