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Nicole Acevedo

https://news.yahoo.com/125-degrees-puerto-rico-faces-225745341.html

Wed, June 7, 2023 at 3:57 PM PDT·4 min read

Puerto Rico endured temperatures that felt as hot as125degrees Fahrenheit this week, according to the National Weather Service, as the U.S. territory experiencesexcessive heat conditionsthat will continue for another week.

The tropical island already experienced record-breaking minimum and maximum temperatures for this time of year onMondayandTuesday, when it jumped to 95 degrees. But theheat index, which measures how temperatures feel like to the human body,surpassed 120degrees Fahrenheit on Tuesday in parts of Puerto Rico, evenpeaking to 125in the northern towns.

The combination of a low-pressure system near Florida and a high-pressure system just east of Puerto Rico has essentially formed a “heat dome” that has remained stuck in the…