Dangerously Hot Weather Descends on 100 Million Americans Nearly a third of the U.S. population was under an extreme heat warning, with high temperatures breaking daily records in multiple cities on Wednesday. Heat indexes were expected to reach 110 degrees in some regions. Nearly a third of the U.S. population suffered through blistering conditions on Wednesday, with heat-related warnings and advisories in effect, mostly in the Midwest and Southeast, the National Weather Service said, adding that it may take weeks to see relief. More than 95 million people from Southern California to western Pennsylvania and as far south as Florida were under an excessive heat warning or heat advisory, meteorologists said. Residents in several states saw temperatures rise well into the 90s, and in some cases into the 100s, according to forecasters at the National Weather Service. They said hot temperatures were likely to persist across large sections of the country for several days. ... In Kansas, about 2,000 cattle died over the weekend from the heat and humidity, said Matthew Lara, a spokesman for the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. “There wasn’t a lot of wind to help cool them,” Mr. Lara said of the animals. “It was just too hot.”
Steamy conditions were also forecast across portions of southwest Indiana, southeast Missouri, western Kentucky and Southern Illinois, where an excessive heat warning was in place through Thursday evening. Heat indexes over the next two days will top out around 106 and 107 degrees. In southwest Michigan and northwest Ohio, heat indexes were expected to reach 110 degrees.
By 9 p.m. Eastern on Wednesday, 17 weather stations had already broken their high temperatures records for June 15, said Bryan Jackson, a forecaster with the National Weather Service, including those in Chicago (96 degrees), Atlanta (99), and Lansing, Mich., (95). In Macon, Ga., temperatures rose to 104, a four-degree increase from the previous record for the date, set in 2011, Mr. Jackson said. Nine additional cities tied their records for the day. “When you break record highs in June, it is pretty significant,” he added. “This is a particularly hot air mass that’s across the east-central U.S.”
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