temperature
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The Santa Barbara Airport recorded a record-high daily temperature of 95 degrees Wednesday, breaking an old record of 94 degrees on that date in 2016, according to preliminary information from the National Weather Service.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
The hypothalamus is a small region deep within the brain that helps regulate hunger, body temperature, hormone activity and energy use.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 24, 2026
"With the baby, I've been staying indoors more, keeping on top of checking the temperature… so there's that isolation," she said.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
Don’t use your sous-vide bath, should you be so fortunate as to have one, cooking the steak for hours until it reaches the desired temperature and then finishing with a quick sear.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
She got it to the right temperature and then reduced the flow.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Now, the scorching temperatures of recent weeks have left the 38-year-old from west London "obsessively" reading about the heatwave and constantly checking her weather app.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
One patent describes a wafer-holding plate that can detect and adjust surface temperatures to correct flaws caused by old machinery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
After the sweltering weekend, temperatures in the Southland are expected to drop Monday through Wednesday, but only by a few degrees, the weather service said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
Cooling temperatures during the shift from the Pliocene to the early Pleistocene, along with major changes in local habitats, may have contributed to the disappearance of Limnospondylus ajimuensis.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 24, 2026
My body was like a shuttle reentering the Earth’s atmosphere, hitting against particles of air and facing temperatures of three thousand degrees Fahrenheit.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
Vocabulary lists containing temperature
Physical Geography - Introductory
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Weather and Climate - Introductory
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Physical Geography - Middle School
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