Reminds me of the Twilight Zone episode "The Midnight Sun".

Wisconsin deaths are up to 12 total...mostly elderly. If your elderly relatives/loved ones live alone and have air-conditioning, check in with them at least 2-3 times a day. If no air-conditioning move them where there is. If you you have elderly neighbors...do the same. We need to take care of each other to get through the heat wave.

Did anyone notice that they are tacking on new data to the beginning of recent stories instead of writing a completely new article? It must be the heat making them lazy.

The only problem with Earth is people live on it. The answer is to get rid of all the people and the Earth will get along just fine, just like it did before people were here.

Also 106 Degrees is just another normal Summer day here in Nevada. You just drink more water to compensate for the temperature. People work outside all day long. It is all relative.

Congratulations for the texts of the previous authors...you are great persons ! I am sure, as things are going, very soon we will have cases in the International Court in Hague for climate crimes cases and the rulers who refused to sign the Kyoto protocol and other environmental crimes will be tried there...A friend of mine, doctor, said that every thirty minutes an emergency case collapsed from the heath was coming to the hospital in Atlanta...if in July 2012 we have 46 deaths and thousands collapsed what will be in 2020 - millions ? Anybody thinking about this ? No ! It is very interesting and sad - Condoleesa Rice visited destroyed and ravaged town Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and nobody dared to ask her: "Why you did not sign the Kyoto protocol and we are suffering now from the climate change."...

It is odd. In winter you get the same story only instead of deaths from high temperatures, it is deaths from low temperatures. People are born and die everyday no matter what the temperature is.

I think it is normal and has been going on for some time now.

All of this sun and wind and no solar panels or wind turbines on any of these homes. Did you know that emergency generators can also charge the batteries for your solar and wind systems when you need them. They would have air conditioning and working lights and fridges now if they had converted. But unfortunately people still believe they need oil and coal powered electric plants to get power in their homes. That's because this is what the oil and energy companies want you to believe. Stay cool and stay hydrated. Think I'll kick back in the AC and enjoy a glass of iced tea.

I live closer to the equator than the states mentioned in the article. The weather is normal where I am and no hotter than usual.

You're having a hot summer. Nothing more and especially not climate change related.

Give it a rest climate freaks, will you?

It's a good thing anthropomorphic climate change is just a hoax concocted by elitist Liberals intent upon forcing red-neck republicans to drive electric cars and worship nature instead of God. Otherwise the climate catastrophe unfolding before our eyes would be concerning.

Here is an idea. Just another reason to exercise and eat right. If you actually go on a regular basis and break into a sweat, it makes those systems more efficient, and takes you out of your comfort zone that it will make the heat more tolerable. If you have extra body fat, you will be warmer, period. When it gets this hot, I do not stop running, I do it earlier in the morning. The heat just gives that nice comfy excuse to hang out on the couch.

well, like my tree hugging professor of environmental studies says regarding who are you going to believe, "its always about the money!" As for me, I believe we are responsible for the destroying the ozone layer with CFCs and the like due to our ignorance and arrogance. Like my biology professor suggested, I looked at the evidence of the naturally occuring elements in the atmosphere and the results of adding more naturally occuring elements (and complex chemicals compounds we have created, lets not forget the for profit people) into the atmosphere and have decided mankinds activities, whether good or bad or indifferent, have indeed changed the mxture in our atmospheric pot! The part this young mind doesn't understand is this: If global warming enthusists are wrong, then opponents can and will wag their fingers and and laugh at their idiocy. However, if they are right and we do not take a cautionary approach then no one will be around to wag anything, save for the few who evolve in a world without oxygen. So, what ever your motive for believing what you believe is fine by me, but I always thought people were smart enough to know an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Guess granny was wrong!

I'm soooo glad I live up here in Seattle. High of 78 today....it's 69 right now, by the way. Stay cool people.

Everyone...go watch "the story of stuff" on youtube.. Pixar did it best in WallE

Climate is what you expect. Weather is what you get.

Any good Republican will tell you....this heat wave is great ! ! ! ! It will kill off the weak that will become or... already is....a burden to society.

IT'S SO HOT .....REALLY - HOW HOT IS IT ........?

.....the birds have to use potholders to pull the worms out of the ground.

.....the trees are whistling for the dogs.

.....the best parking place is determined by shade instead of distance

.....hot water comes from both taps.

.....you can make sun tea instantly.

.....you learn that a seat belt buckle can be a branding iron.

.....the temperature drops below 90F and you feel a little chilly.

.....you discover that in July it only takes two fingers to steer your car.

.....you actually burn your hand opening the car door.

.....you break into a sweat the instant you step outside at 7:30 A.M.

.....your biggest motorcycle wreck fear is, "What if I get knocked off and end up lying on the hot pavement"?

.....the potatoes cook underground, so all you have to do is pull one out and add butter.

.....the cows are giving evaporated milk.

.....farmers are feeding their chickens crushed ice to keep them from laying boiled eggs.

IT'S SO DRY that the Baptists are starting to baptize by sprinkling, the Methodists
are using wet-wipes, the Presbyterians are giving rain checks, and the Catholics
are praying for the wine to turn back into
water!

It is now 101 Degrees here in LV NV.

Just think, five more degrees and I will be dead, AACCCKK!

Mean while I am going to have a cold Pepsi and enjoy life. May be even some barbecued hot dogs with relish too.

Update: It is now 106 Degrees here in Las Vegas at 3:55 PM.

ACCCCKKK! I am dead!

Actually, 106 Deg F feels just fine, another cold Pepsi please.

Something I've been wondering about lately; it seems to me that everything we do or use, daily, makes or requires heat. Often a great deal of heat. Phoenix is about ninety miles from here, and every air conditioner in that area is running, otherwise the place is uninhabitable in summer. All of those a/c units make heat which exits to the local environment, adding to the excessive heat which only more a/c alleviates, etc. Now add all the paving, glass and concrete, vehicles creating even more heat; industry more often than not adding heat, even electric motors create heat. Is there a "Mall of America" effect in this? As I've heard this enormous center in a northern state, has no means to heat the interior other than relying on the cumulative body heat from thousands of people, which apparently is enough to keep the place comfortable even during the coldest days. Is the country, the planet, now at least partially experiencing this "Mall of America" phenomenon? We all make heat every day in the normal routines of life, globally. We travel, cook, heat and cool our homes and businesses, smelt metal, make electricity, and millions of products, even in agriculture; and there are now seven billion of us on this "life boat". Not to mention the enormous wildfires, constant volcanic/hydrothermal activity, added to our daily routines, surely this can't be negligible.

All of those a/c units make heat which exits to the local environment, adding to the excessive heat which only more a/c alleviates, etc.

Physics correction - Most of the heat an a/c unit dumps to the outside is heat that is removed from the inside. It balances. Of course the unit does generate some heat due to mechanical and electrical operational loss. But it is a fairly small part of the total. This is kind of like worrying about the loss of the sun's energy that is being sucked up by solar cell panels.