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A weekslong heat wave will intensify this weekend and push temperatures close to 130 degrees
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An already dangerous weekslong heat wave will only worsen this weekend asa heat domeintensifies and reaches peak strength over parts of the Western United States.
The heat dome is so formidable theNational Weather Service in Phoenixcalled it “one of the strongest high pressure systems this region has ever seen.” Around 100 heat records could fall today through the weekend as it intensifies, piling onto the more than 1,000 high temperature records broken in the US since June.
More than 90 million people are under heat alerts after the heat dome expanded into places like California, which is now experiencing its first extreme heat wave of the…
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