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1980
The Dallas/Fort Worth area experienced 42 consecutive days with high
temperatures above 38
—
°
C, with temperatures reaching 47
°
C at Wichita Falls,
Texas on June 28.
During the summer of 1983 temperatures over 38
C were common across Iowa,
Missouri, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio, Minnesota, Nebraska
and certain parts of Kentucky; the summer of 1983 remains one of the hottest
summers ever recorded in many of the states affected.
°
2001
—
Newark, New Jersey tied its all-time record high temperature of 41
°
C
with a heat index of over 50
°
C.
2003
—
In Portugal, the temperatures reached as high as 47
°
C in the south.
The European heat wave of 2006 was the second massive heat wave to hit the
continent in 4 years, with temperatures rising to 40
C in Paris; in Ireland, which
has a moderate maritime climate, temperatures of over 32
°
°
C were reported.
Temperatures of 35
°
C were reached in the Benelux and Germany (in some
areas 38
°
C, while Great Britain recorded 37
°
C.
2006
C. Also,
California experienced temperatures that were extraordinarily high, with records
ranging from 40 to 54.4
—
Temperatures in some parts of South Dakota exceeded 46
°
C. On July 22, the County of Los Angeles recorded its
highest temperature ever at 48
°
°
C.
—
2007
Bulgaria experienced its hottest year on record, with previously unre-
corded temperatures above 45
°
C. The Indian city of Datia experienced tem-
peratures of 48
°
C.
2008
—
Alice Springs in Australia
'
s Northern Territory recorded ten consecutive
days of temperatures above 40
°
C with the average temperature for that month
being 39.8
C. In March, Adelaide, South Australia experienced maximum
temperatures of above 35
°
C for 15 consecutive days, 7 days more than the
previous longest stretch of 35
°
C days. The March heat wave also included
eleven consecutive days above 38
°
C. The heat wave was especially notable
because it occurred in March, an autumn month, in which Adelaide averages
only 2.3 days above 35
°
°
C.
2009
Adelaide, South Australia was hit by a heat wave with temperatures
reaching 40
—
C for 6 days in a row, while many rural areas experienced tem-
peratures hovering around about mid
°
40
°
C. Kyancutta on the Eyre Peninsula
*
endured at least 1 day at 48
°
C. In neighbouring Victoria recorded 3 consecutive
days over 43
C, and also recorded its highest ever temperature 8 days later in a
secondary heatwave, with the mercury peaking at 46.4
°
°
C.
2010
On 26 May, at Mohenjo-daro, Sindh province in Pakistan, a national
record of high temperature of 53.5
—
°
C occurred.
In late July and early August 2011, temperatures in Iraq were exceeding 49
°
C
(Baghdad
—
52
°
C).
The summer of 2003, in some regions of Western Europe, was one of the
warmest summer seasons with heat waves affecting mainly Central and Western
Europe. Two anomalous heat waves taking place in June and July
August (espe-
cially the second wave) were especially powerful. Droughts accompanying them
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