About a third of U.S. residents were under excessive heat advisories or warnings on Sunday.
A history-making heat wave that baked Southern U.S. communities with triple-digit temperatures over the weekend will offer little relief this week and could spread dangerous conditions farther across the Sun Belt.
The center of the heat wave is expected to spread eastward Monday, with extreme temperatures continuing through at least next weekend,. Heat indexes this week are expected to spike to dangerous levels along the more humid Gulf Coast and in the Southeast. Heat warnings were in the forecast for communities in the Pacific Northwest to the tip of Florida.
. Heat waves can be more threatening the longer they linger, because stress accumulates over time when people can’t find adequate respite. . The city, along with its surrounding suburbs in Maricopa County, Arizona, recorded 425 deaths associated with heat last year.“We’re currently on pace to break the all-time consecutive streak of 110-degree days. Currently that record is 18 days,” said Gabriel Lojero, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Phoenix. “We’re forecasting temperatures to be near or above 115 this week, so it’s likely we’re going to break that record.
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