Global warming fingerprint
	Heat waves and periods of unusually warm weather

Texas

Deadly heat wave, summer 1998. Heat claimed more than 100 lives in the region. Dallas temperatures were over 100^oF (37.8^oC) for 15 straight days.

Reference: NCDC, 1998. 1998 Summer Heat and Precipitation Extremes. National Climatic Data Center. http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/
ol/reports/texas98/
texasrecords.html

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