Braxton Hicks, 7, of Livingston, Texas, holds his face to a portable fan to cool off during a Little League tournament in Ruston, La., last week. More very hot weather is expected this weekend in much of the central U.S.
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It’s been a hot summer with plenty of weather extremes — and it appears likely that the rest of August will bring more swelter.
The National Weather Service’s Weather Prediction Center is forecasting dangerous heat over the Central U.S. this weekend, heat that is expected to rise to “well-above normal to record-breaking temperatures” in areas from the central Gulf Coast and lower Mississippi Valley to the northern High Plains. Next week, the heat is expected to extend into the Central Plains and Texas.
“We’re looking at a prolonged period of excessive heat with the potential there for daily highs being broken this weekend all the way through next week,” Zack Taylor, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service, tells NPR.
For some locations, particularly in the Midwest, this could be the hottest period of the summer so far, says Taylor. Those areas include portions of Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska and the Dakotas, where there’s a potential to break several daily high records.
The latest from us and @NWSCPC regarding the dangerous heat wave which will expand across the Central and Southeast U.S. this weekend and next week. Numerous high temperature records will continue to fall through next week, with little overnight relief from the heat. pic.twitter.com/VwHpPVX1jT
— NWS Weather Prediction Center (@NWSWPC) August 18, 2023
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