Over 141 million people in the U.S. were under heat alerts overnight as a dangerous heat dome lingered over a major swath of the Midwest, South and Southwest.
Axios reports: "The strength of this heat dome appears to be beating the August 1936 one, which occurred in the midst of the notorious 'Dust Bowl.'"
https://flip.it/1AMFDr
#Heat #HeatWave #Weather #Climate #ClimateChange
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