More than 70 million are under heat warnings and advisories on Saturday through early next week as a potent heat dome sends temperatures soaring to levels the National Weather Service is calling "potentially deadly." The heat wave, made worse by a long-term, climate change-influenced drought, shows signs of eventually swelling into the middle of the country and then eastward through next week.
Heat advisories blanket nearly the entire state of Texas and Oklahoma, and extend as far east as Tennessee. These advisories and a more serious warning, known as an excessive heat warning, also are in place all the way to the West Coast, with triple-digit heat roasting California's Central Valley. Daily temperature records already have been set beginning Friday, and more are likely to fall Saturday and beyond. Overall, temperature departures from average during this heat wave are about 10 to 20°F or more above normal for this time of year. Friday's record highs included:
109°F: Las Vegas.
123°F: Death Valley, Calif., where the hottest temperature in the world was recorded. This was one of the earliest 123-degree readings ever recorded in the U.S., tweeted weather historian Maximiliano Herrera.
113°F: Phoenix.
103°F: Austin.
100°F: Albuquerque
98°F: Houston
High temperatures in the Southwest are likely to peak Saturday and Sunday, before the core of the high-pressure area, or heat dome, shifts eastward and parks itself over the Tennessee River Valley.
https://www.axios.com/2022/06/11/heat-w ... as-arizona
And the drought goes on.
https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu
It was 106F here yesterday, predicted to be in the mid 90Fs today due to the off shore flow on the coast. Temps move back up mid week. An early hot and very dry summer.
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