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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Erum Salam

Heatwave expected to spread to 250m Americans in midwest and north-east

A young Black or Latino man wearing a grey bandana on his head, no shirt, but with a white shirt hanging from one shoulder, drinks from a bottle of water, in dappled shade in a parking lot, with tall palm trees behind him.
A man drinks a bottle of water during a heatwave in Tucson, Arizona, last year. Photograph: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images

The scorching heatwave that has swept the US south-east in recent weeks will soon spread to the country’s midwest and north-east regions, affecting nearly 250 million Americans.

Temperatures are stuck at 90F (32C) or above for at least the next week in much of the US, the National Weather Service (NWS) predicted. The NWS defines a heatwave as a period of temperatures exceeding 90F for two or more days, and this one could last until 26 June.

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