06/07/2024

Western Heat Dome Shatters Records

Here’s when it could end

After breaking numerous records in the western United States on Thursday, the season’s first major heat wave is continuing Friday, scorching cities from Texas to California. The hazardous heat should gradually ease this weekend but will persist in portions of Texas and Oklahoma.

The sprawling heat dome set scores of records Thursday, including in Sacramento, Phoenix and Las Vegas, which matched its earliest high of at least 110 degrees.

More than 25 million people from California’s Central Valley to Texas remain under heat alerts on Friday. The most extreme temperature forecasts triggered the highest levels of the National Weather Service’s HeatRisk forecast, which rates the danger to human health.

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