{"id":107493,"date":"2024-10-13T00:03:51","date_gmt":"2024-10-13T00:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/dangerous-record-breaking-heat-hits-the-west\/"},"modified":"2024-10-13T00:03:51","modified_gmt":"2024-10-13T00:03:51","slug":"dangerous-record-breaking-heat-hits-the-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/dangerous-record-breaking-heat-hits-the-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Dangerous, record-breaking heat hits the West"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-10-12\/Getty_101224_ExtremeHeatSign.jpg\" alt><figcaption>David McNew\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(NEW YORK) &#8212; Dangerous, record-breaking heat is ongoing in the West, with the temperature in Phoenix reaching the triple digits every day for the last three weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Phoenix climbed over a scorching 110 degrees on 80 days in 2024 &#8212; shattering the record set last year with 55 days of temperatures over 110 degrees.<\/p>\n<p>The heat spreads across the Southwest and the South this weekend, with temperatures soaring to the 90s in cities including Las Vegas, Austin, Dallas and Little Rock, Arkansas.<\/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>Meanwhile, as Florida cleans up from the devastation left by Hurricane Milton, lingering river flood warnings are ongoing for parts of Florida and Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>Choppy seas are also keeping the rip current risk high for many beaches in Georgia and Florida&#8217;s east coast.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David McNew\/Getty Images (NEW YORK) &#8212; Dangerous, record-breaking heat is ongoing in the West, with the temperature in Phoenix reaching the triple digits every day for the last three weeks. Phoenix climbed over a scorching 110 degrees on 80 days in 2024 &#8212; shattering the record set last year with<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/dangerous-record-breaking-heat-hits-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\/107493"}],"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=107493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}