Tens of millions of Americans were under heat warnings early Friday as record temperatures scorched the Southwest a day prior. The National Weather Service early Friday said some 13,000,000 people were under an excessive heat warning and another 8,500,000 were under a heat advisory covering parts of southern California, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico. In Phoenix, the temperature hit 113°F, breaking the previous record set back in 2016 by two degrees. |
