Record-breaking heat wave sprawls across US

More than 25 major U.S. cities tied or broke maximum heat records on Saturday, June 11, 2022.

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Las Vegas, Nevada, hit 109 degrees Fahrenheit, a temperature not felt in Sin City since 1956. California’s Death Valley reached 122 degrees. Phoenix, Arizona, clocked in at 114 degrees, the hottest day there in more than a century.

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A landmark study on rising temperatures and children published in January 2022 found heat increased children’s risk of blood, immune, and nervous-system diseases.

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The rising health risks of summer-time heat has prompted some experts to give summer a new name: “danger season.”

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