Las Vegas is under an 'extreme' HeatRisk warning until Saturday.
Several cities were scorched by daily heat records on Thursday amid 'extreme' heat in the southwestern United States.According to the National Weather Service , Las Vegas temperatures topped out at 111 degrees at 3:35 p.m. PDT, breaking the city's previous record of 110 degrees set exactly 14 years ago, on June 6, 2010. Records were also set in Kingman, Arizona, which endured a high of 105 degrees Thursday.
'An extreme HeatRisk is a 'level of rare and/or long-duration extreme heat with little to no overnight relief,' read the NWS announcement. Similar to the major level, an extreme risk also 'affects anyone without effective cooling and/or adequate hydration' and has the chance of impacting health systems and heat-sensitive industries.An excessive-heat warning was also extended until the end of Saturday for parts of Nye and Clark counties in Nevada by the NWS Thursday morning.
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