https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/20/us-heatwave-record-high-temperatures

Heatwave leads to record daily highs in New York and Maine, as US south-west sees wildfires and excessive rainfall

The United States continues to suffer extreme weather as a heatwave baked millions across the upper midwest and north-east and a tropical storm soaked Texas and northern Mexico.

The National Weather Service said the heatwave was expected to peak in the eastern Great Lakes, New England, the Ohio Valley and mid-Atlantic over the coming weekend.

“Widespread daily record high temperatures are likely. Heavy to excessive rainfall will be associated with thunderstorms forecast to move across parts of the northern Plains and Upper Midwest,” it said in a weather advisory on Thursday.

A tropical cyclone building in the Gulf of Mexico named Alberto is forecast to bring heavy rain, flooding threats and gusty winds to south Texas but “gradually decrease” as it makes landfall in Mexico and dissipates.

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/20/us-heatwave-record-high-temperatures