The intense heat wave that left several high temperature records between Saturday and Sunday will persist this week, moving into central states, the Midwest and the Southeastwarned the National Weather Service (NWS, in English)
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Temperatures well above normal values for this time of year, even setting records, they will be felt in the Rockies, across the Plains, and in the middle and lower Mississippi, Tennessee, and lower Ohio valleys.
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“With heat indices could easily reach triple digits in many placesheat advisories, and extreme heat advisories cover much of the eastern Plains, the middle and lower Mississippi Valley, the lower Ohio Valley, the Tennessee Valley, and the Midwest Coast region. Gulf,” the NWS said in its latest bulletin.
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Extreme heat will also accumulate east of the Carolinas, with advisories now in effect for portions of the eastern Carolinas and coastal Georgia as well.
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27 high temperature records left by the extreme heat wave
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The historic heat wave has left temperatures above triple digits this weekend. On Saturday, the temperature reached 114 degrees at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airporttying a record set more than a century ago.
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In the death Valley In California, one of the hottest places on the planet, thermometers climbed to 120 degrees Fahrentheit.
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The temperatures reached 100 degrees or more in Las Vegas and even in Denver, where it snowed less than a month ago.
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Total, 27 communities tied or broke records temperature on Saturday, according to data from the Weather Service.
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In Phoenix, a man said in a TikTok video that he was able to cook some hamburgers on the dashboard of his car.
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What is certain is that this week there will be “drastic and intense warming” in much of the country as the jet stream moves north, the AccuWeather site said.
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“A large heat dome will expand further over the central states, midwest and southeast for the next few days,” AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Dan Pydynowski said.
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Wichita, Kansas will approach 100 degrees this Monday. Chicago and Indianapolis will reach highs on Tuesday.
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The heat comes with strong to severe storms
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“As the heat and humidity build up on Monday, a severe storm complex may reach northern Illinoissaid the National Weather Service in Chicago. “Dangerous heat and humidity will continue Tuesday and Wednesday.”
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Little change is expected for Wednesday and back-to-back record days are forecast in many places.
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The heat wave colliding with the cold front will produce and showers and thunderstorms in the northern northern plains. Storms are also expected to form near a warm front moving down the Ohio Valley into the southern Great Lakes region.
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