Las Vegas is sweltering in a long-lasting heat wave that has brought record-breaking seven days in a row of temperatures of 115 degrees or higher. This is part of an unusually hot summer in the United States.
“With a high of 115°F this afternoon, we not only broke the daily record high but also made it 7 days in a row,” the National Weather Service in Las Vegas wrote in a post-Friday. “Today is the seventh day in a row that our daily high temperatures have been broken or tied!”
During the city’s rough patch, July 7 was the hottest day on record in Las Vegas, with a high of 120 degrees. The city also had three days in a row with temperatures above 118 degrees, which, according to records from 1937, had never happened before.
In about 100 US towns, from Maine to California, this summer has been the hottest ever.
The National Weather Service says that hundreds of people die every year in the United States because of extreme heat from the weather. Heat is thought to have killed at least 37 people in the US in July, and that number is probably low.
A lot of people have died in the West, where towns are still setting new records for the hottest temperatures ever.
A lot of people in the United States are on heat alerts until the beginning of the week. Saturday, there were fears of too much heat in parts of California, Nevada, Arizona, and Utah.
The weather service said, “This long-lasting heat wave is still very dangerous and could kill if not taken seriously.” “Large parts of the West will see dozens of daily record high temperatures through Sunday.”
Heat can hurt anyone, but some people are more likely to get hurt than others. Children, the old, pregnant women, people with heart or blood pressure problems, people who work outside, and people who can’t get cool easily are more likely to get sick from the heat than other people.
For most of the West through Saturday, dangerously high temperatures that break records will continue to rise. In the Central Plains and Southeast, temperatures will also start to rise.
From Friday through Sunday, the heat will slowly start to go away in most of the West as it moves to the East.
The high heat in the West will start to subside by the end of this weekend, but it’s still pretty hot there in July, even when it’s not breaking records every day.
It will get even hotter in some parts of the Southeast and the Middle Mississippi Valley on Sunday and Monday.