{"id":106994,"date":"2024-08-28T18:00:06","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T18:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/summer-scorcher-excessive-heat-headed-to-northeast\/"},"modified":"2024-08-28T18:00:06","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T18:00:06","slug":"summer-scorcher-excessive-heat-headed-to-northeast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/summer-scorcher-excessive-heat-headed-to-northeast\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer scorcher: Excessive heat headed to Northeast"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-08-28\/map1-abc-ml-240828_1724847124993_hpEmbed_16x9.jpg\" alt><figcaption>ABC News<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(NEW YORK) &#8212; The hottest weather of the season is spreading across the eastern half of the U.S. &#8212; with cities in the Northeast in the bull&#8217;s-eye on Wednesday &#8212; after baking the Midwest with extreme temperatures early in the week.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago&#8217;s actual temperature hit 99 degrees on Tuesday, breaking the city&#8217;s daily record of 97 degrees. The heat index &#8212; what temperature it feels like with humidity &#8212; soared to a scorching 115 degrees in Chicago on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, 55 million people from Missouri to New York City are on alert for heat.<\/p>\n<p>The heat index is forecast to soar to 105 degrees in Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.; 102 degrees in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Louisville, Kentucky; 104 in Richmond, Virginia; 103 in Nashville, Tennessee; and 96 in New York City and Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p>The scorching temperatures will end in the Northeast on Thursday, but will linger in the Ohio Valley and Tennessee Valley through Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Record highs are possible in Nashville, Tennessee; Cincinnati and Raleigh, North Carolina, by the end of the week.<\/p>\n<p>There are hundreds of deaths each year in the U.S. due to excessive heat, according to CDC WONDER, an online database, and scientists caution that the actual number of heat-related deaths is likely higher.<\/p>\n<p>Last year marked the most heat-related deaths in the U.S. on record, according to <em>JAMA<\/em>, a peer-reviewed medical journal published by the American Medical Association.<\/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; The hottest weather of the season is spreading across the eastern half of the U.S. &#8212; with cities in the Northeast in the bull&#8217;s-eye on Wednesday &#8212; after baking the Midwest with extreme temperatures early in the week. Chicago&#8217;s actual temperature hit 99 degrees on<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/summer-scorcher-excessive-heat-headed-to-northeast\/\">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\/106994"}],"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=106994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}