Tens of millions of Americans were under heat warnings early Friday as record temperatures scorched the Southwest a day prior.
June 7 Tens of millions of Americans were under heat warnings early Friday as record temperatures scorched the Southwest a day prior.
The National Weather Service early Friday said some 13 million people were under an excessive heat warning and another 8.5 million were under a heat advisory covering parts of southern California, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico.
Both excessive heat warnings and heat advisories are issued within 12 hours of the onset of extremely dangerous heat conditions.
The advisories come after several daily high temperature records were broken on Thursday.
In Phoenix, the temperature hit 113 degrees Fahrenheit, breaking the previous record set back in 2016 by two degrees. On Thursday, 11 people attending a rally for former President Donald Trump at a church in north Phoenix were hospitalized with heat-related symptoms.
