Prolonged period of excessively hot weather

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Hot time in the old town : the great heat wave of 1896 and the making of Theodore Roosevelt / Edward P. Kohn.

Hotterdam : how space is making Rotterdam warmer, how this affects the health of its inhabitants, and what can be done about it / Frank van der Hoeven, Alexander Wandl.

Heat wave : a social autopsy of disaster in Chicago / Eric Klinenberg.

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Heat waves (Meteorology)

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Hot time in the old town : the great heat wave of 1896 and the making of Theodore Roosevelt / Edward P. Kohn.

Hotterdam : how space is making Rotterdam warmer, how this affects the health of its inhabitants, and what can be done about it / Frank van der Hoeven, Alexander Wandl.

Heat wave : a social autopsy of disaster in Chicago / Eric Klinenberg.