Extreme heat will again scorch a large section of the US, including areas where thousands have lost power
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Extreme heat is forecast again for a large swath of the Mideast and Southeast on Wednesday, testing power grids and leaving more than 88 million people under heat warnings or advisories.
Temperatures could soar as much as 20 degrees above average, pushing heat indexes well into the triple digits.
Fifty locations across the central and southern US may get close to or exceed high-temperature records Wednesday, according to the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center. Multiple cities, including St. Louis, Nashville, and Charlotte, North Carolina, have already broken daily records this week.
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