A high-pressure dome parked over the Southwest is elevating temperatures from Florida to California, a heat wave that forecasters say could last two weeks.
Many Texans are familiar with the chorus of cicadas that fills the air on the hottest days of early July. But this week, the bugs seem particularly raucous. It could be, at least in part, a result of the heat wave that has been baking the region and shows no signs of letting up. On Tuesday, the high temperature was expected to reach around 103 degrees in El Paso and San Antonio. It’s not that individual cicadas are louder than they were before, said Allen F. Sanborn, an emeritus professor of bio