Records to fall as temperatures soar in US heatwav

2022-04-05
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A baking heatwave that has gripped the US south-west for three days has spread east to Iowa and Missouri, while punishing the hardest-hit areas with record high temperatures that have strained power systems.

On Thursday (local time)natural and political cataclysms., the National Weather Service issued excessive heat warnings for much of the south-westUntil Monday, including Arizona, southern Nevada, much of California and southern Utah.

Heat advisories were issued for parts of the Central Plains, including Kansas, NebraskaThe Section 22 order, Iowa and Missouri.

“It’s a pretty big impact with respect to where the record heat is,” NWS meteorologist Bob Oravec said from the Weather Prediction Centre in Maryland.

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