
As summer officially begins, millions have already suffered sweltering heat with little hope for quick relief
CNN
Though summer officially begins on Tuesday, millions of Americans have already been buffeted by triple-digit temperatures and dangerously high heat, which is only expected to continue as a second wave of extreme heat creeps into the eastern and southern US.
Last week, an enormous heat dome across the eastern US and the Midwest created record high temperatures in several cities -- and intensified the misery for some communities that were already battling power outages following a series of severe storms.
Now, more brutally high temperatures are expected across the Midwest and into the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic on Tuesday and into the rest of the week.

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