The U.S. is set to deal with yet another scorching heat wave, but this one could be the hottest yet
, with Las Vegas expected to flirt with its all-time record high, while more remote areas deal with heat that could rewrite the record books for the whole world.Las Vegas is expected to hit 114 degrees on Wednesday, while highs are forecast to reach 115 on Saturday and Sunday.
The National Weather Service says there’s a 43% chance the city could tie or exceed its all-time record high of 117 on Saturday, and puts the chance on Sunday at 34%. Temperatures will be even hotter elsewhere, including Death Valley, a desert area in eastern California near the Nevada border close to Las Vegas, where the forecast shows highs reaching 129 on Sunday and Monday.
The highest verifiably recorded air temperature on Earth is 129.2 degrees, which Death Valley hit in 2013 and a recording station in northeast Kuwait matched in 2016."Any way you cut it, it's going to be dangerously hot this weekend," the Las Vegas National Weather Service officeThe official all-time record high at Death Valley and also on Earth is 134 degrees, recorded on July 10, 1913.