Southwest heat wave at highest level risk as brutal heat peaks this weekend, endangering all-time

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Another relentless heat wave is expected to grip the West this weekend. The extreme conditions in the forecast have prompted the National Weather Service (NWS) to categorize much of California and Nevada in the highest heat risk level by Sunday.

Over 30 million people are under heat alerts across the western states as temperatures are forecast to soar well into the triple digits this weekend, threatening to break daily high-temperature records.

Nearly the entire state of California will be impacted by this heat wave, in addition to the major metro areas in the Southwest.

"Numerous daily high temperature records could be in jeopardy of being broken, particularly for California and Nevada. Highs could approach 115-120 degrees for the lower elevations of Arizona and eastern California this weekend," the Weather Prediction Center (WPC) said on Friday.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/southwest-heat-wave-at-highest-level-risk-as-brutal-heat-peaks-this-weekend-endangering-all-time-temperature-records/ar-AALYbV4

[marybourg]

1. It's very comfortable in my living room.

[FlyingPiggy]

2. Oh no! We were just there. It's horrible as people are not accustomed to this sort of weather.

And many in cooler areas do not have AC. We saw that first hand in the pacific NW w the recent heat dome. Stay inside, hydrate well, and stay cool CA and NV!

[bahboo]

3. this is a good time to live near the coast....

20 miles from here it will be over 100. Here in the 70's...

[KPN]

5. Shhhh!

[Jerry2144]

4. IT's currently 106

at 10:30 in NW Vegas, on it's way to 113. We're up in the heights so it is a little cooler by a couple degrees. A hospital friend says they had a patient admitted with second degree burns on her feet from walking barefoot outside. I've rigged up umbrellas and shade for my dogs for when they need to go outside and relieve themselves. That helps. Or we carry them out to the shade of our bushes.

[brush]

6. I'm in Centenial Hills so I'm with you. It's boiling outside.

It's gotten extremely hot a lot earlier than in other years.

[Jerry2144]

7. Probably around the corner

I am at centennial and 215. It’s now 111 outside. I am hoping that thunderboomer over Mount Charleston turns this way. But it looks like it is going north, not east.