Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY-5h agoFollow
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Aheat wave gripping parts of the nation added an exclamation point to a series of announcements this week about the world’s warming climate.
A city water park in Grand Island, Nebraska, doesn’t open for another two weeks, but residents could have used it Thursday when the temperature reached 96, 21 degrees above normal for that date.
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In Shreveport, Louisiana, on Thursday, the high of 94 tied a 148-year-old record. That was one of more than 110temperature records broken or tiedacross 21states this week. In Texas,Galveston sweltered, setting or tying records three out of four days.
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