Weather
WDAY News Reporter Riley Swenson talked to people exercising outdoors, in the summer heat.
StormTRACKER Meteorologist John Wheeler examines a warm start to August.
He was playing with prisms and sunbeams one day in the year 1800 when he noticed that the air in the red part of the spectrum seemed warmer than the other colors.
This is known as "elevated convection" because the conditions which cause the storm are formed in this higher layer.
In the summer, the sun dog effect can be achieved by thin cirrus clouds at 20,000 to 30,000 feet.
No measurable heat can reach Earth from any star in the sky other than the sun.
Sirius is called the “dog star” because it is the brightest star of the constellation, Canis Major, "The Big Dog."
The most accepted theory based on a reconstruction of the past climate is that the North Pole has been capped in ice for about 2.7 million years.
National Weather Service meteorologists said it's not critical.
The relative humidity is fairly useless as an indication of humidity discomfort.
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