Heat, Fourth of July
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The temperature reading in Central Park tied a record for July 2 set in 1966. Some 163 million people, from Missouri to Maine and south to Mississippi, live in areas that are likely to experience dangerous heat on Thursday,
Dangerously high temperatures in the Northeast have triggered a string of cancellations of 250th anniversary events.
An extreme heat wave across the United States has left nearly a million homes without power on Independence Day.
Scientists have said the conditions are the result of a climate that is “fundamentally different” from the time before fossil fuel use started rapidly warming the world.
President Donald Trump touted the crowds in Washington, D.C., who came to celebrate the United States’ 250th Independence Day on Saturday afternoon while wishing the nation a happy Fourth of July ahead of an address tonight.
Summer has barely started in the Northern Hemisphere, but already it’s offering an oppressive preview of life on a hotter planet.
A prolonged, dangerous heat wave will intensify across most of the central to eastern U.S. this week, the National Weather Service said.
