Dangerous Heat Dome to Bring Record Temperatures to Much of the U.S.
Forecasters warn that dangerously hot and humid weather will blanket nearly 200 million people this weekend and next week as a phenomenon known as a heat dome traps the sweltering air.
'There will be three, four, maybe five days in a row of a persistent heat dome with hot, humid, sunny conditions over a good portion of the Eastern U.S.,' said Bryan Jackson, meteorologist at the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Md.
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