The first major heat wave of the summer is firing up across the eastern half of the U.S. this week, with major cities along the Interstate 95 corridor like Washington, Philadelphia and New York City flirting with 100 degrees.
The expansive heat dome will have more than 190 million Americans in the East experiencing temperatures above 90 degrees, but it won’t just be the high temperatures that will make people feel miserable.
Humidity, too, will soar, with dew points rising into the 70s.
That will make cities like Chicago, Cleveland, Louisville in Kentucky, Nashville in Tennessee and Raleigh in North Carolina feel well above 100 degrees.
The heat has also been record-breaking in the Midwest.
Minneapolis, for example, hit 90 degrees on Saturday, and that broke its old record set in 1900.
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