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Download PDF Welcome to Larisa English Club #29 What’s in The News? What is a Heat Wave? Speaking Practice. Comparing with Adjectives at The Shop! English Grammar. What are Comparative Adjectives? What’s in The News? What is a Heat Wave? A heat wave is a prolonged period of excessively hot weather, which  may be accompanied by high humidity, especially in oceanic climate  countries. While definitions vary, a heat wave is measured relative to  the usual weather in the area and relative to normal temperatures for  the season. Temperatures that people from a hotter climate consider  normal can be termed a heat wave in a cooler area if they are outside  the normal climate pattern for that area. The term is applied both to hot weather variations and to  extraordinary spells of hot which may occur only once a century. Severe  heat waves have caused catastrophic crop failures, thousands of deaths  from hypothermia, and widespread power outages due to increa