California&#39;s holiday heat wave strikes even coastal areas
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Californians sweated through soaring temperatures even at beaches Monday as much of the state ended the long Labor Day weekend in the grips of a record-setting heat wave.
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Cyprus braces for heatwave    NICOSIA, June 23 (Xinhua) -- A sweltering heatwave is to hit Cyprus as temperatures are expected to hit 40 degrees Celsius from Sunday in the capital Nicosia.
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Wildfires blown by fierce desert winds Monday reduced hundreds of Southern California homes to ashes, forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee and laid a hellish, spidery pattern of luminous orange over the drought-stricken region
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By Lea Blevins; Roman Gokhman  It's not officially summer yet, but the Bay Area got an early taste of summer heat this week.  "We have a high-pressure cell building over Central California," said Brooke Bingaman, National Weather Service spokeswoman.
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RAMONA, California  - Cooler, calmer weather helped firefighters gain the upper hand over seven remaining wildfires in Southern California on Sunday as residents sought clean water, food, and help rebuilding their lost homes.
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Warm weather across the country continued on Monday with highs above normal from the northern tip of Maine to Southern California.
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A handful of the more than 20 blazes that have burned across Southern California for six days remained serious threats on Friday.
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Cool, damp weather moved into Southern California from the Pacific Ocean on Friday boosting efforts to beat down stubborn wildfires, while weary families returned to find many homes unscathed but hundreds of others burned to rubble.
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Much of Southern California was pounded Wednesday by a powerful storm that dumped as much as a foot of rain in the mountains of Los Angeles County.
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Scorching heat pushed California's electricity supply to the brink Monday and threatened another round of blackouts as utility crews across the state struggled to restore power to tens of thousands of people left in the dark over the weekend.
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A heat wave swept southern California for a sixth day on Sunday, claiming the lives of an elderly couple, setting record temperatures and leaving thousands of customers without power.
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Triple digit temperatures smashed records across California Saturday, straining thermometers and air conditioners and prompting dozens of scattered electricity outages that left residents sizzling.
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U.S. East Coast power grid operators said they had enough electricity to keep air conditioners running Tuesday as a heat wave continued to grip the region.
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About 64,000 customers of Southern California's three biggest utilities were without power late Tuesday morning as a heat wave extended to its seventh day, the utilities said.
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The California coastline was expected to receive its first rain in over a week on Tuesday. The storm should also bring some snow to the Cascades and Sierra Nevada mountain ranges.
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A slow-rolling series of storms that battered parts of the West this week had more precipitation in store for California, where weather
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Wildfire-hit California prepares for at least another 24 hours of high winds and scorching temperatures.