heat wave

prolonged period of excessively hot weather
Thing type_of_meteorological_phenomenon Q215864
heat wave
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heat wave

Summary

heat wave is a type of meteorological phenomenon[1]. It draws 1,086 Wikipedia views per month (type_of_meteorological_phenomenon category, ranking #6 of 22).[2]

Key Facts

  • heat wave's video is recorded as Hoe voorkomen we snikhete nachten.webm[3].
  • heat wave's image is recorded as Wcmax1 JUL 14 - AUG 3 2019 cr.png[4].
  • heat wave's instance of is recorded as type of meteorological phenomenon[5].
  • heat wave's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh90004180[6].
  • heat wave's subclass of is recorded as weather[7].
  • heat wave's subclass of is recorded as meteorological phenomenon[8].
  • heat wave's subclass of is recorded as extreme weather[9].
  • heat wave's Commons category is recorded as Heat (meteorology)[10].
  • heat wave's opposite of is recorded as cold wave[11].
  • heat wave's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01qw8g[12].
  • heat wave's has cause is recorded as global warming[13].
  • heat wave's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Heat waves[14].
  • heat wave's facet of is recorded as global warming[15].
  • heat wave's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/heat-wave-meteorology[16].
  • heat wave's BBC Things ID is recorded as fbac9b7b-69af-4d29-8678-d55ba8ae4dd0[17].
  • heat wave's different from is recorded as heat burst[18].
  • heat wave's different from is recorded as extreme heat[19].
  • heat wave's has list is recorded as list of heat waves[20].
  • heat wave's label in sign language is recorded as Canicule Nf 1 1 1 - Elix.webm[21].
  • heat wave's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as WikiProject Climate change[22].
  • heat wave's Google News topics ID is recorded as CAAqBwgKMIrWhAswmcSBAw[23].
  • heat wave's EuroVoc ID is recorded as c_3f4ff841[24].
  • heat wave's BBC News topic ID is recorded as czp2j9gdep0t[25].
  • heat wave's Fandom article ID is recorded as ru.apocalypse:Жара[26].
  • heat wave's Fandom article ID is recorded as ru.weather:Жара[27].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for heat wave include Thermidor[28], a calendar month[29], in France[30].

Why It Matters

heat wave draws 1,086 Wikipedia views per month (type_of_meteorological_phenomenon category, ranking #6 of 22).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[31] It is known by 18 alternative names across languages and contexts.[32]

Entities named for it include Thermidor[28], a calendar month[29], in France[30].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . BBC Things. wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [31] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [32] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 20d ago · Nat (WDU) · 2026-04-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of weather, meteorological phenomenon, extreme weather
    Local thumb /static/img/heat-wave.png
    Umls cui C5197912
    Instance of
    + 12 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/29431|batch #29431]]: UNDRR-ISC Hazard Information Profile ID for extreme weather events"
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