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Heat Continues as Record Early Wave Hits U.S. Southwest
The heat dome shattered over 479 weather stations' March records, with four locations reaching 112°F, driven by a stalled jet stream and human-caused climate change.
- Data from dozens of weather stations show over 170 locations from California to Pennsylvania tied or set new March records as four reporting stations in Arizona and California hit 112 degrees on Friday.
- Meteorologists say a stalled ridge of high pressure — a record-strength heat dome for March — parked over the West and trapped hot air, while the jet stream remained stuck westward, prolonging the warmth.
- Federal station data show a surge of record breaks across hundreds of sites, with the National Center for Environmental Information reporting at least 479 weather stations and another 1,472 daily records shattered.
- Meteorologists say the dome is moving east and will push high temperatures across the Plains, bringing 90s by Wednesday over the southern and central Plains and lasting until the middle of next week as April starts.
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Record-breaking heat dome spreads across the US: ‘Really bizarre’
After smashing March heat records in 14 states and the US as a whole, the gigantic heat dome that’s baked the Southwest is creeping eastward and may end up being one of the most expansive heat waves in American history, meteorologists and weather historians said.
After beating heat records in March in 14 states and across the U.S., the giant heat dome that has hit the south-west of the country is moving eastwards and could become one of the largest heat waves in U.S. history, according to weatherologists and climate historians. And it will not disappear in a while, perhaps not until mid-week, when April begins, said meteorologist Gregg Gallina of the National Weather Service Weather Center. “Basically, t…
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