By Payton Major, Taylor Ward andMonica Garrett, CNN

Updated 1:02 PM ET, Thu July 7, 2022

https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/07/weather/excessive-heat-us-south/index.html

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(CNN)The third heat wave of the still-early summer is scorching the US South, and “it will get worse … before it gets better,” warns the National Weather Service.

Over 65 million people across 16 states are under heat alerts Thursday, with triple-digit heat indexes — or “feels like” temperatures — expected in cities including Dallas; St. Louis; Memphis, Tennessee; Little Rock, Arkansas; Birmingham, Alabama; Atlanta; and Raleigh, North Carolina.

The latest heat wave continues a trend playing out in recent weeks on every continent in the Northern Hemisphere — and something that will be more frequent with human-induced climate change, experts with the Copernicus Climate Change Service said Thursday.

Above-normal temperatures will soar Thursdayinto the upper 90s and…