Matthew HaugheyWe should name our heat waves after oil companies, in alphabetical order like hurricanes or tornadoes. So you’d say the western US is currently suffering from heat wave: Shell Oil this week.
Mr. Teatime@mathowie
Wouldn't we run out of names really quickly, and have to number them?
"Wait, did you mean Exxon12 or Exxon13?, bacause that was in the same place, no?"
...although I guess in some places (e.g. Romania right now), the heat waves will just bleed into one another soon enough, and then it's just one per year again, all summer/autumn, followed by the rain season and then back to Summer.