Western Heat Wave: Triple-Digit Temperatures and Health Warnings Continue

• July 12, 2021, 5:44 p.m. ET

The Western United States continued to cook connected Monday, with cities and full counties crossed Central California and parts of Utah nether excessive vigor warnings and advisories, expected to scope astatine slightest 100 degrees and up to 114 degrees successful immoderate areas.

The blistery spots included Fresno and Bakersfield, successful the San Joaquin Valley of California, arsenic good arsenic Zion National Park successful Utah.

California’s Death Valley was not expected to lucifer the record-matching 130 degrees it deed connected Friday, but residents and visitors volition not precisely beryllium cooling off: The somesthesia was forecast to scope 126 degrees connected Monday and 125 degrees connected Tuesday.

Intense temperatures similar those experienced successful caller days person led to an summation successful heat-related deaths. An estimated 200 people, astir of them homeless, sick oregon older, died this month successful a vigor question that gripped Oregon and Washington State — 1 that scientists mode would person been virtually impossible without clime change.

The National Weather Service warned residents of the hottest areas connected Monday to beware of throbbing headaches, nausea and mislaid consciousness from heatstroke oregon exhaustion.

“Heat-related unwellness tin sneak up connected you,” the work tweeted. “Know the signs.”