Las Vegas' temperature climbed to 115 shortly after 1 p.m. at Harry Reid International Airport, breaking the old mark of four consecutive days set in July...
The National Weather Service says the temperature climbed to 115 degrees Wednesday afternoon at Harry Reid International Airport.
“Even people of average age who are seemingly healthy can suffer heat illness when it’s so hot it’s hard for your body to cool down,” said Alexis Brignola, an epidemiologist at the Southern Nevada Health District. More than 142 million people around the U.S. were under heat alerts Wednesday, especially in Western states, where dozens of locations tied or broke heat records over the weekend and are expected to keep doing so all week.Oregon has seen record daily high temperatures, with Portland reaching 103 F and Salem and Eugene hitting 105 F on Tuesday. The number of potentially heat-related deaths in Oregon has risen to 10, according to the state medical examiner’s office.
The heat was blamed for a motorcyclist’s death over the weekend in Death Valley National Park. At Death Valley on Tuesday, tourists queued for photos in front of a giant thermometer that was reading 120 F .Simon Pell and Lisa Gregory from London left their air-conditioned RV to experience a midday blast of heat that would be unthinkable back home.At the Grand Canyon, the National Park Service was investigating the third hiker death in recent weeks.
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