Roughly 44 million people are under either heat warnings or advisories in the United States as the National Weather Service (NWS) identifies extreme heat as the “number one weather-related killer.”
Heat advisories are expanding the U.S. on Monday, including the Southeast, mid-South, “much” of the Great Plains, even including Southern California as well as Texas. The heat advisories are going as north as Aberdeen, South Dakota and south as North Florida.
Per the NWS:
An ongoing heat wave will continue today and Tuesday from much of the Great Plains to the lower Mississippi River Valley and into northern Florida. Dangerous heat is also expected in southern California and Puerto Rico. Scattered severe thunderstorms will be possible over parts of the Upper Midwest today with destructive wind gusts possible for parts of Minnesota into Wisconsin.
Temperatures are expected to…
