Have you ever heard of a heating degree day? It is a meteorological statistic that is not often discussed, yet it plays an ...

The following chart shows every day that reached 100 degrees or higher in Cedar Rapids since Jan. 1, 1893. The maximum daily temperature data comes from weather archives of the National Oceanic and ...

Last month wasn’t only the hottest June by far in the observed temperature record, but marked the first-ever 12-month stretch of the Earth’s average temperature exceeding 1.5 degrees Celsius of ...