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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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Key Points: Extreme Heat and Drought
Extreme heat is caused by increased solar radiation coupled with low moisture and winds.
Heat and drought can have major and lasting impacts on humans, crops and livestock.
