140 Million Americans Under Heat Alerts, Death Valley Reaches 128 Fahrenheit

Some 140 million Americans were under some form of federal heat warning on Monday as a multi-day-long heat wave inundated much of the United States, particularly the West Coast. A daily tracker provided by the National Weather Service (NWS) on July 8 showed excessive heat warnings, heat advisories, and excessive heat watches across California, Nevada, Oregon, Washington state, Arizona, Utah, and Idaho on July 8. Alerts were also issued in several states across the southern U.S. as well as in mid-Atlantic and Northeast states. On Sunday, an excessive heat warning was in effect for about 36 million people, or about 10 percent of the U.S. population, NWS meteorologist Bryan Jackson said. Dozens of locales in the West and Pacific Northwest tied or broke previous heat records....