Roughly 130 million people are under threat from a long-running heat wave that has shattered records with dangerously high temperatures. More records could fall through the coming week, from the Pacific Northwest to the mid-Atlantic states and the Northeast. Record temperatures were notched in multiple places in across the West on Saturday.
In Portland, Oregon, festival-goers enjoyed the music, but struggled in high temperatures Friday as a slow-moving heat wave spread across the Western U.S. The National Weather Service said much of the West Coast is likely to see triple-digit temperatures. A water-dropping helicopter drops on flames from the advancing Lake Fire in Los Olivos, Calif., Saturday, July 6, 2024. A water-dropping helicopter drops on flames from the advancing Lake Fire in Los Olivos, Calif., Saturday, July 6, 2024.
“A dangerous and historic heatwave is just getting started across the area, with temperatures expected to peak during the Sunday-Wednesday timeframe,” the National Weather Service in Las Vegas said in an updated forecast. In more humid parts of the country, temperatures could spike above 100 F in parts of the Pacific Northwest, the mid-Atlantic and the Northeast, said Jacob Asherman, a weather service meteorologist.Meteorologists predicted that temperatures would be near daily records in the region through most, if not all, of the coming week, with lower desert highs reaching 115 to 120 degrees F .
The hottest temperature ever officially recorded on Earth was 134 F in July 1913 in Death Valley, eastern California, though some experts dispute that measurement and say the real record was 130 F , recorded there in July 2021.Triple-digit temperatures are likely in the West, between 15 and 30 F higher than average into next week, the National Weather Service said.
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