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From the Panhandle to the Keys, temperature records were either matched or set Tuesday afternoon. More of the same was due Wednesday.
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Due to the excessive heat, the Naples Zoo will close early, at 1 p.m., through Friday, and will set up temporary early access hours through Sept. 30.
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Heat alerts were in affect across the entire state and a good part of deep south U.S. states from Texas to South Carolina Tuesday with heat index values up to 115 in some areas.
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Heat alerts are in affect across parts of Florida today and tomorrow, including across Southwest Florida.
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The National Weather Service forecast is calling for a heat advisory for much of Southwest and West Central Florida from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday.
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Nearly a month into a stifling heat wave, corrections officials are attempting to alleviate sweltering conditions in Florida’s unairconditioned prisons, but advocates for inmates say the efforts fall short and aren’t being carried out the same way at all facilities.Throughout July, inmates’ supporters pressed the Department of Corrections to take steps to offer some relief to the roughly 85,000 people locked up in prisons.
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Hurricane Don was short-lived, returning to tropical storm status Sunday and likely to lose tropical characteristics by early Monday while a low pressure system still has a chance to become a tropical depression during the next few days while it moves westward across the tropical Atlantic and eastern Caribbean Sea. Additionally, heat advisories were continued in most of Southwest and South Florida.
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The heat index, also known as the apparent temperature, is what the temperature feels like to the human body when relative humidity is combined with the air temperature. There is direct relationship between the air temperature and relative humidity and the heat index, meaning as the air temperature and relative humidity increase (decrease), the heat index increases (decreases).
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As areas of South Florida, including Collier, Hendry and Glades counties, swelter under a heat advisory with heat indices up to 110 again today, portions of the southwest United States have been melting under those actual temperatures for nearly three weeks.
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The National Weather Service has issued a heat advisory for portions of Southwest and South Florida until 8 p.m. on Monday.