Roughly 130 million people in the United States are under threat from a prolonged heat wave that has already broken records with dangerously high temperatures. Forecasters warn that this oppressive heat is expected to continue into next week, potentially shattering more records from the East Coast to the West Coast.
Jacob Asherman, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, stated that oppressive heat and humidity could combine to spike temperatures above 38 degrees Celsius in parts of the Pacific Northwest, the Mid-Atlantic, and the Northeast. In Oregon, cities such as Eugene, Portland, and Salem could see records broken, Asherman added.
Dozens of other records throughout the U.S. could fall, causing millions to seek relief from the sweltering conditions in cooling centers from Bullhead City, Arizona, to Norfolk, Virginia. The National Weather Service announced on Saturday that it is extending the excessive heat warning for much of the Southwest into Friday.
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Heat wave threatens 130 million in U.S., records expected to shatter
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