{"id":55718,"date":"2026-07-01T09:32:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T09:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/dangerous-heatwave-to-hit-us-ahead-of-holiday-weekend\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T09:32:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T09:32:23","slug":"dangerous-heatwave-to-hit-us-ahead-of-holiday-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/dangerous-heatwave-to-hit-us-ahead-of-holiday-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Dangerous heatwave to hit US ahead of holiday weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The heatwave is forecast to hit a large area of the country, from the US east coast to central areas of the country. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The extreme temperatures caused by a heat dome, will peak in the Midwest and Mississippi Valley by Thursday, the NWS predicted. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It will shift east into the Ohio Valley and East Coast on Thursday and into the holiday weekend, according to the weather service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Temperatures ranging from 95F-105F (35C -40.6C) combined with high humidity will bring the heat index to 100F-115F (38C-46C). <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Daily temperature records are expected to be broken on Thursday and Friday, with some monthly and all-time records possible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Officials are warning people living in the affected areas to limit time outdoors, stay hydrated and ensure access to air conditioning or cooling centres.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani activated a heat emergency plan with hundreds of cooling centres set to open across the city on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Detroit, Michigan, where temperatures could reach 100F (38C), opened a dozen recreation centres with air conditioning for residents to cool down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With the intense weather, some World Cup matches could have heat indexes exceeding the threshold where global players&#8217; union Fifpro consider it too unsafe for play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The hottest weather will be in Texas, which will mostly hit fans travelling to and from the air-conditioned stadiums in Houston and Arlington. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This may also be the case for the England v DR Congo match on Wednesday in Atlanta, Georgia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Philadelphia, meanwhile, is moving parts of its Fifa World Cup Fan Festival into cooled tents on Thursday and Friday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cm2j8kd0dk4o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The heatwave is forecast to hit a large area of the country, from the US east coast to central areas of the country. The extreme temperatures caused by a heat dome, will peak in the Midwest and Mississippi Valley by Thursday, the NWS predicted. It will shift east into the Ohio Valley and East Coast [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55720,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55718\/revisions\/55720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}