There’s something about heat waves that puts everyone on edge. The whole energy of a city changes as temperatures rise. As the climate continues to change globally, we’re seeing more and more heatwaves in unlikely places. If you like to turn to art to make sense of the world, there’s a long history of heat wave movies depicting the (excuse the pun) heated temperaments and short fuses that tend to emerge.

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