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1: Title
2: Essential Question
3: Drought
4: What Do You Think?
5: Drought Monitoring
6: Assessing Drought
7: Drought Impacts
8: How Do We Measure Drought?
9: Heat Waves
10: Heat Wave Weather Patterns
11: How Is Heat Measured?
12: Heat Watches and Warnings
13: Human Responses to Heat
14: Heat Related Illnesses
15: Key Points: Extreme Heat and Drought
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Heat Waves
Heat waves are extended periods of unusually hot weather relative to the normal temperature of an area for a given season.
Heat waves can worsen drought conditions, put added stress on crops, and have health impacts for humans and livestock.
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