The pattern for the northeastern United States will be a 'tale of two weeks' as low humidity and cool to seasonable air much of this week are replaced with surging heat this weekend and the first heat wave of the season.

A major heat wave is forecast to spread across large swathes of northern China this week, bringing record high temperatures to some areas, according to China’s meteorological authorities. The heat wave,

More than 20 million people were under weather advisories for extreme heat as forecasts predicted another week of soaring temperatures.

China is the biggest emitter of the greenhouse gases that scientists say are driving climate change and longer, hotter heatwaves. Authorities in Beijing issued an orange alert for extreme heat on June 11,

Maryland recorded a heat-related death in early June, and with the National Weather Service prediction of record high temperatures this summer, Baltimore County