Gabriella Rudy is a news associate for NBC News.
A scorching streak in Phoenix has set new daily records for 10 straight days during an October heat wave sweeping much of the West. At 109 degrees Fahrenheit on Thursday, Phoenix was over 10 degrees hotter than its normal temperature on that day of the year, which is 94 degrees, according to the National Weather Service. The forecast calls for this streak of broken records to potentially reach up to 16 days in a row. The current record at a U.S.
As excessive heat persists in the lower-48, tropical trouble is brewing in the Gulf of Mexico as the National Hurricane Center continues to watch an area that could gradually develop into a tropical or subtropical depression or storm sometime next week. Regardless of development, there's a strong chance of very heavy rain starting this Sunday and continuing throughout next week in Florida.
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