Millions of Americans – particularly those in the highly populated Interstate 95 corridor are under heat-related advisories or alerts as the squelching heat is expected to hit record-breaking temperatures in some areas.
A relentless heat wave that baked more of the United States this past week is expected to continue and expand this weekend. In some places, the humidity will bring the heat index values as high as the mid-100s.Forecasters with the National Weather Service said Saturday they expect the high temperatures to be in the mid-to-upper 90s from the central and southern Plains to the East Coast.
In Idaho, officials said two people in their 60s have died of heat-related causes — the state's first heat-related deaths of the year. Health officials did not release additional information about the victims Friday, including where they died.This month's sizzling daytime temperatures were 35 times more likely and 2.5 degrees F hotter because of the warming from the burning of coal, oil and natural gas — in other words, human-caused climate change.
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