Roughly 130 million people were under threat Saturday and into next week from a long-running heat wave that already has broken records with dangerously high temperatures - and is expected to shatter more from East Coast to West Coast, forecasters said.
A person cools off during the Waterfront Blues Festival on Friday, July 5, 2024, in Portland, Ore. A slow-moving and potentially record-setting heat wave is spreading across the Western U.S., sending many residents in search of a cool haven from …PORTLAND, Ore. –
“Certainly a pretty anomalous event that we’re expecting here, which looks like it will continue through at least midweek,” Asherman said. PHOTOS: More records expected to shatter as long-running blanket of heat threatens 130 million in U.S. A new heat record for the day was set on Friday in California’s Death Valley — one of the hottest places on Earth - with the mercury climbing to 127 F The old mark of 122 F was last tied in 2013.
The Eastern U.S. also was bracing for more hot temperatures. Baltimore and others parts of Maryland were under an excessive heat warning, as heat index values could climb to 110 F , forecasters said. That does not include the death of a 10-year-old boy earlier this week in Phoenix who suffered a “heat-related medical event” while hiking with family at South Mountain Park and Preserve, according to police.
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