Relentless heat wave reaching maximum strength: Weather updates
A historic heat wave reached its maximum intensity across the southwestern United States and California on Sunday and established numerous records well above 100 degrees. Death Valley, Calif., infamous for its heat, hit 128, setting a new daily record but fell short of 130, which would have matched the highest temperature observed worldwide in the past 90 years.
Even as the heat is forecast to very slowly ease in the West during the workweek, it is expected to become more entrenched and expand over the south-central and southeastern United States, where tropical-like humidity is already producing dangerously high heat indexes.
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