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Heat Dome Sets Over 300 Temperature Records Across More Than Half of U.S.
A heat dome is affecting more than half the United States through the July 4 weekend. Forecasters expect more than 300 temperature records to fall from the Midwest to the East Coast.
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A heat dome is affecting more than half of the United States through the July 4 holiday weekend, CBS News reported. Dangerously high temperatures ramped up Wednesday from the Midwest to the East Coast. More than 300 temperature records are expected to be set by Saturday, CBS News reported.
The total includes more than 100 record highs and more than 200 record warm overnight lows through Saturday evening, according to CBS News meteorologist Nikki Nolan. Temperatures will be 20 to 30 degrees above average. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani stated that these are extremely dangerous conditions.
The city is deploying vans staffed with nurses and paramedics for the first time to hand out water, electrolytes and sunscreen while also opening cooling centers throughout the five boroughs. Mamdani recommended that all New Yorkers stay inside and stay cool. In Philadelphia, organizers shortened plans for the city's Salute to Independence parade Friday due to the heat.
Nashville temperatures could reach a high of 101 degrees and feel like 114, with heat patrols handing out cold bottled water to the city's homeless population during peak hours. , faces forecast highs of 103 degrees on Thursday and Friday and 101 degrees on Saturday, July 4, CBS News reported. That would exceed the capital's previous July 4 record of 100 degrees set in 1919.
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser urged residents and visitors to plan ahead, stay in the shade and limit time outdoors. Severe storms are shifting southward with a risk of storms to the I-95 corridor over the Fourth of July weekend, particularly in the Mid-Atlantic on Saturday.
In the West, destructive wildfires fueled by dry conditions and high winds are occurring in parts of Utah and southern Colorado under red flag warnings with wind gusts up to 45 mph and relative humidity as low as 7-12 percent. A boy participating in a pregame ceremony for Minnesota's St. Paul Saints on Tuesday started to faint on the field after being in the sun all day.
