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Average number of days per year U.S. locations are projected to experience heat waves based on 3‐day minimum temperatures exceeding 80 °F. As shown in Figure 2, the historical plot (1986–2005) shows the total number of days exceeding the threshold in the baseline, and subsequent plots show the increase in the number of days for each global warming threshold.
