{"id":106372,"date":"2024-07-12T18:04:14","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T18:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/life-threatening-heat-heading-to-east-coast-as-high-temperatures-continue-to-rage-in-the-west\/"},"modified":"2024-07-12T18:04:14","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T18:04:14","slug":"life-threatening-heat-heading-to-east-coast-as-high-temperatures-continue-to-rage-in-the-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/life-threatening-heat-heading-to-east-coast-as-high-temperatures-continue-to-rage-in-the-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Life-threatening heat heading to East Coast as high temperatures continue to rage in the West"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-07-12\/west-heatwave-abc-thg-240712_1720788122744_hpEmbed_16x9.jpg\" alt><figcaption>ABC News<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(NEW YORK) &#8212; Historic heat is still raging in the West, with life-threatening temperatures baking California to Colorado before the dangerous, triple-digit heat moves to the East Coast.<\/p>\n<p>Las Vegas hit its sixth day in a row of temperatures at or above 115 degrees as the city soared to a scorching 118 degrees on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Sacramento, California, reached 113 degrees and Salt Lake City hit 106 on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, temperatures are forecast to soar to 115 degrees in Las Vegas, 116 in Phoenix and 111 in Sacramento.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend, the worst of the heat will stretch from the Southwest into the Rockies and the Plains.<\/p>\n<p>A heat advisory is in effect in Denver, where temperatures over 100 degrees are possible Friday and into the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>An excessive heat watch has been issued as far east as Omaha, Nebraska, where the heat index &#8212; what temperature it feels like &#8212; could climb to 112 degrees.<\/p>\n<p>Part of that western heat dome will then move farther east, bringing a new heat wave to the East Coast from Sunday through Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>By Tuesday, the heat index is forecast to jump to 101 degrees in Atlanta and New York City; 105 degrees in Philadelphia; and 107 degrees in Raleigh, North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>Record highs are possible next week from Atlanta to Washington, D.C., to New Hampshire.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/extreme-heat-end-current-forecasts\/story?id=111843703\">Click here for what to know about staying safe in the heat.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC News (NEW YORK) &#8212; Historic heat is still raging in the West, with life-threatening temperatures baking California to Colorado before the dangerous, triple-digit heat moves to the East Coast. Las Vegas hit its sixth day in a row of temperatures at or above 115 degrees as the city soared<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/life-threatening-heat-heading-to-east-coast-as-high-temperatures-continue-to-rage-in-the-west\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106372"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}