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Nearly 100 million under life-threatening heat dome alerts from Chicago to New Orleans

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Nearly 100 million under life-threatening heat dome alerts from Chicago to New Orleans

More than 97 million people are under life-threatening heat alerts from the South to the East Coast as a large ridge of high pressure builds over the central U.S. this week, commonly referred to as a heat dome. The FOX Forecast Center said nearly 200 million people will be feeling the heat by the end of the week as … Read more

Relentless heat dome puts 108 million from Minneapolis to New Orleans under alerts

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Relentless heat dome puts 108 million from Minneapolis to New Orleans under alerts

A third of the country is facing another blast of late summer heat just as the season begins to wind down.  Nearly 109 million Americans across the central U.S. from the Plains to the Midwest, and the Gulf Coast and Southeast are now under heat alerts that will last through at least Wednesday, but with no relief … Read more