Turning up the heat watch.According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. National Weather Service (NWS NWS National Weather Service NWS Naval Weapons Station NWS New World Symphony NWS Nuclear Weapon State NWS Not Work Safe NWS National Watercolor Society NWS North Warning System NWS Nose Wheel Steering NWS National Waste Strategy (UK) ) data, excessive heat is the leading weather-related cause of death, with at least 1,500 excess deaths from heat-elated causes during the average U.S. summer. The NWS has been testing its Heat/Health Watch Warning System to provide the public with five days' advance notice of excessive heat events. Now the NWS has announced that the system, which has become a model for others worldwide, will be expanded to include every U.S. city with a population exceeding 500,000. In Philadelphia Philadelphia, ancient cities Philadelphia, name of several ancient cities. One was in Lydia, W Asia Minor (now W Turkey). At the foot of Mt. Tmolus and near the location of modern Alaşehir, it was founded in the 2d cent. B.C. , the first city to implement the system, 117 lives were saved over three years. |
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