More than 165 million people in the United States were under some form of heat advisory or warning as soaring temperatures are expected for much of the East Coast, South, and Midwest starting Monday and lasting until the middle of this week.
A tracker run by the federal government shows that roughly 168 million people are under heat alerts across the United States as of Monday afternoon.
“Extreme heat warnings” were issued for sections of Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota, Missouri, Kansas, Tennessee, Illinois, Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Ohio, West Virginia, and Kentucky.
Cities under those warnings include St. Louis, Missouri; Memphis, Tennessee; Raleigh, North Carolina; Sioux Falls, South Dakota; and Des Moines, Iowa, among others….