A heat wave hit the DMV area over the weekend, and one of the country's Founding Fathers paid the price.

The recent blast of cold weather has given alligators a chance to show off their way of coping with freezing temperatures.

On Monday, officers with the South Milwaukee Police Department were called to Grant Park along Lake Michigan for a report of an alligator.

Photos are popping up across social media of squirrels splaying out to try and beat the excessive heat hitting the U.S.

There is a unique visual experience happing right now in the Sierra Nevada created by the warming temperatures.