western

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The margin of records across the western US was "utterly absurd", its chief scientist Robert Rohde said.

From BBC • May 26, 2026

The heatwave is a result of a so-called "heat dome", external - the warm air from northern Africa trapped under a high-pressure system over western Europe.

From BBC • May 26, 2026

A so-called "heat dome" of warm air from northern Africa trapped under a high-pressure system over western Europe is behind the high temperatures not usually seen until high summer.

From Barron's • May 25, 2026

“The universal reaction was shock,” said Lesa Lessard Pearson, chair of the Select Board in Belchertown, a town of 15,000 in western Massachusetts.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 23, 2026

He told them that he wanted the Sudetenland, the western portion of Czechoslovakia where another large ethnic German population lived.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti