30 million people under heat alerts as western US swelters

[Klaralven]

Hot weather alerts are in place for more than 30 million people across the western United States after the region's second heat wave in weeks brought another round of record-equalling high temperatures.

Sweltering conditions have hit much of the Pacific seaboard and as far inland as the western edge of the Rocky Mountains over the weekend, with forecasters warning of more to come on Sunday.

Las Vegas matched its all-time record of 117 degrees Fahrenheit (47.2 Celsius), according to the National Weather Service (NWS) -- a temperature recorded in the desert entertainment city once in 1942 and three other times since 2005.

Forecasters issued an excessive heat warning for the city along with several other urban centers including the southern city of Phoenix and San Jose, the center of the Silicon Valley tech industry south of San Francisco.

"Over 30 million people remain under either excessive heat warnings or heat advisories," the NWS said on Saturday, adding that dangerous heat and dry conditions would continue through Sunday.

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20210711-30-million-people-under-heat-alerts-as-western-us-swelters

[multigraincracker]

1. I love to visit my friends on the West Coast,

but happy to live in Michigan. 7 day forecast looks like 40% chance of showers everyday and highs in the high 70s to low 80s. I live in the middle of the state and can go to either the West Coast or East Coast of the state in an hour or so. Looks like my friends may visit me this summer.

[Demsrule86]

2. I live in Ohio and feel the same way.

[smirkymonkey]

3. This has been kind of a scary summer so far and we aren't even halfway into it.

I am kind of bracing for hurricane season hear on the east coast. It's been almost 10 years since hurricane Sandy and it wouldn't surprise me if we had another repeat.