National Weather Service (NWS) alerts for “excessive summer heat” across the United States were sent out on Monday, with the agency warning that more of the same is expected for the coming week.
The summer weather heat “will build and expand across the Eastern two-thirds of the country this week, starting in the north-central states and Plains,” the NWS said in a bulletin.
“A staunch upper level ridge will continue generating anomalous heat across parts of the West as well as southern Florida,” the NWS bulletin added.” High temperatures in the 90s-110s and lows ranging from the upper 60s to 80s will likely tie or break records in many parts of the West,” it said, adding that low temperatures “as high as the 90s are possible for parts of the Southwest this week….