Heat

Austin Energy is asking Southwest Austin residents to conserve energy, especially between 2-8 p.m., to lower the risk of outages.

About 15,000 people were without power for several hours in East Austin on Wednesday evening. Austin Energy said high demand caused the outage.

After a July that was much cooler than in years past, Austin has plunged back into a streak of triple-digit days.

The team is part of an international project using the Games to develop tools for making hyperlocal climate predictions. UT researchers plan to apply what they learn in Austin.

The state of Texas is being sued over the lack of air conditioning in its prisons, where indoor temperatures can top 100 degrees in the summer. In federal court, inmates detailed the extreme measures they’ve taken to get out of the heat, like starting fires or inflicting self-harm.

Newly released autopsies show extreme temperatures in state prisons may have contributed to multiple recent deaths behind bars. But the state says heat hasn’t killed any prisoners in more than a decade. A lawsuit challenging Texas prison heat protocols will be heard in federal court on Tuesday.

After two back-to-back summers of record-breaking heat, many expected more of the same. But so far, the West Coast has been the region to tangle with the "heat dome." That could change, though.

Soda cans will often warp or explode when they're left in a car in summer. Here's why that happens and a reminder of how dangerous hot cars can be.

It's hot. It's going to get hotter. Prepare yourselves. The heat dome could be headed this way.

In 1954, 21 families moved into homes in Austin’s Allandale neighborhood. They did so under one condition: They would be the subject of an experiment.