The numbers are staggering. In what the National Weather Service has described as a 'never-ending heat wave,' records continued to fall across the West this week: 120 degrees Farenheit (49 degrees Celsius) in Las Vegas; a low that never dipped below 92 F in Phoenix; Five straight 100-plus F days in Oregon.
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