Visitors to Las Vegas on Friday stepped out momentarily to snap photos and were hit by blast-furnace air.
But most will spend their vacations in a vastly different climate — at casinos where the chilly air conditioning might require a light sweater.
“We’ve been talking about this building heat wave for a week now, and now the most intense period is beginning,” the National Weather Service wrote Friday., watches and warnings. The blistering heat wave was forecast to get worse this weekend for Nevada, Arizona and California, where desert temperatures were predicted to soar in parts past 120 degrees Fahrenheit during the day, and remain in the 90s F overnight.
His daughter, Kathy Zhagui, 20, offered her recipe for relief: “Probably just water, ice cream, staying inside.”
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