More than 125 million Americans are on alert for sweltering coast-to-coast temperatures, as heat alerts are in place from Southern California to the intermountain West and northern Plains, upper Midwest and across to the Northeast.
Daily record highs may be broken in Rapid City, Fargo and Grand Forks in the northern Plains on Tuesday.
In the Northeast, record daily highs could be broken at Plattsburgh and Syracuse, New York. Other parts of New England may get within a degree or two of a daily record today.
Those daily record highs would follow several broken on Monday, including in Bismarck, North Dakota, with 105 degrees; International Falls, Minnesota, at 97; and Hibbing, Minnesota, at 93. Rapid City, South Dakota, and Dickinson, North Dakota, tied records with 102 and 103, respectively.
100 million Americans expected to be under dangerous heat this week
In addition to the heat, shifting winds are expected to blow smoke from more than 800 wildfires burning in Canada down into the upper Midwest and Northeast on Wednesday, creating dangerous air quality for millions of people…