![]() EPA chose this definition for several reasons: For consistency across the country, Figures 1 and 2 define a heat wave as a period of two or more consecutive days when the daily minimum apparent temperature (the actual temperature adjusted for humidity) in a particular city exceeds the 85 th percentile of historical July and August temperatures (1981–2010) for that city. Heat waves can be defined in many different ways.
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