High temperatures impact 54million Americans living in the South’s Sun Belt, bringing heat stroke and other related illnesses to states already struggling with record COVID-19 surges

Heat is expected to move from the Desert Southwest and Southern Plains and into the Midwest and East into the next week
The NWS issued excessive heat warnings from southern and western Arizona into southern Nevada and southeast California
Parts of New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas and Mississippi also received excessive heat warnings
The heat warnings come as Florida, California, Texas and other states set records for coronavirus surges
On Saturday, Disney World in Orlando, Florida, reopened two of its four parks — Magic Kingdom and Animal Kingdom — after four months of closure
That same day, Florida reported its third-highest daily increase in cases, with 10,360 new infections, as well as 95 deaths
As many as 122 daily heat records are expected to be tied or broken in the upcoming week across the country
Some 54 million people are expected to have temperatures reach 100 degrees or more

Sun Belt states already struggling with rising COVID-19 infections and deaths are having to suffer through an extensive heat wave through the weekend and into the early days of the week.

As states like Florida, California and Texas set records on Thursday for the surge in coronavirus, Americans living in the states and others nearby grappled with whether they risked being out in the heat. As of Friday, 10,000 Texans were hospitalized with the disease.

According to the Weather Channel, searing heat will move from the Desert Southwest and Southern Plains and into the Midwest and East into the next week. …..more here

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High temperatures impact 54million Americans living in the South’s Sun Belt, bringing heat stroke and other related illnesses to states already struggling with record COVID-19 surges

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