Severe weather disrupted parts of the United States on Wednesday, with a tropical storm skirting Hawaii, thunderstorms knocking out power in Kentucky and Tennessee and a relentless heat wave stubbornly parked over the Southwest.
Poor air quality, which threatened to cause health issues for millions of Americans over the last few days, lifted in many places. But air heavily laced with smoke from hundreds of wildfires burning in Canada lingered in scattered locations.Some 80 million Americans remained under excessive heat warnings, watches and advisories on Wednesday as the prolonged and dangerous heat wave hung over a swath of the country stretching from Southern California to the Deep South.
Phoenix looks assured of notching its 20th straight day with temperatures of 110 degrees F or higher. On Tuesday the city broke the record with its 19th consecutive scorcher.was expected to bring oppressively hot temperatures and high humidity levels across the southern tier of the United States through the weekend and into next week.
On Tuesday during a rally in Austin, the state capital, family members and advocates called for state lawmakers to take action and install air conditioning in the more than two-thirds of the state's prisons that do not have cooling in living areas.Sisters Olivia, 10, and Evelyn Black, 12, play in Gateway Fountains at Discovery Green park to escape the hot weather in Houston, Texas, U.S., July 18, 2023.
Representatives of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, which runs the state's prison system, could not be reached immediately for comment.In the Hawaiian Islands, Tropical Storm Calvin lashed the Big Island on Wednesday with strong winds and heavy downpours as it slowly passed south of the Pacific archipelago. The storm was expected to dump as much as 8 inches of rain as it packed winds of up to 60 miles per hour on the Big Island.
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