This July 27, the United States National Weather Service (NWS) reported on a heat wave classified as “dangerous”, which will persist in different areas of the country during this and next week.
In its most recent newsletter, the NWS stated that the heat wave will affect from the Great Plains to parts of the Mississippi Valley and the southeastern United States.
Maximum temperatures are expected to reach between 35 and 38 degrees Celsius, and in the areas of the desert southwest these records could reach between 46 and 49 degrees.
During the night, the temperature would reach 21 degrees, a figure that would break records in the United States for being so high.
“Forecasters indicated that much of the central and southern Great Plains, the Mississippi Valley and the Southeast will experience significant to extreme heat risk levels on Monday,” the NWS states.
The authorities point out that, between the high temperatures and humidity, temperatures of between 40 and 46 degrees Celsius could be recorded.
This Monday it is expected that the Areas of the central and southern Great Plains, the Mississippi Valley and the southeastern United States will experience heat levels so high that they will be classified as “extreme and dangerous.”
Starting July 28, the NWS says heat risk levels will be dangerous only in the Southern Rocky Mountains.
“Areas to the north will experience some relief from the heat as an embedded short wave brings thunderstorm chances across the central Great Plains and a cold front moves into the Midwest,” the NWS states.
Also read: Why some areas of the US experience extreme cold and other high temperatures