The West's record-shattering heat wave isn't over as heat dome shifts into the Plains
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An oppressive heat wave across much of the western United States had cities and their residents sweltering through conditions this weekend that are normally more common at the height of summer
An oppressive heat wave across much of the western United States had cities and their residents sweltering through conditions this weekend that are normally more common at the height of summer.
The blistering heat wave, which has persisted all week throughout California and the desert Southwest, will continue to build and spread east into the central U.S. in the coming days.
More than 150 daily temperature records and around 50 monthly all-time records have been broken between Tuesday and Saturday, the National Weather Service said. March high-temperature records were set or matched from Palm Springs, California (108 degrees Fahrenheit), to Boise, Idaho (83), and from San Francisco (89) to Nashville, Tennessee (89), it said.
On Sunday, Phoenix (102), Yuma, Arizona (99), and El Centro, California (100), set high-temperature records for the date, the weather service office in Tempe, Arizona, said. More records were expected to fall in the coming days.
Temperatures that are 20 to 40 degrees Fahrenheit above average for this time of year will be common from the Southwest into the Great Plains, according to the National Weather Service.
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