Over 180 million people are under heat alerts Friday as dangerously hot conditions peak in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast, persist in the Desert Southwest, and tighten their grip over the south central states.
from northeast North Carolina, through Virginia Beach, Richmond, Washington, Philadelphia and into north central New Jersey.
All the locations under warnings are anticipating heat indexes, a measure of how hot it feels factoring in humidity, of around 110 degrees or higher Friday afternoon. Air temperatures in these areas are forecast to approach or surpass 100 degrees.Heat advisories surround the heat warning zones and cover most of the central states, Mid-Atlantic and Northeast, including Chicago, Cleveland, Nashville and Little Rock, among others.
On the heels of a sultry night, a slew of record warm minimum temperatures are also slated to fall. Some locations in the Midwest and Central Plains failed to drop below 80 degrees by Friday morning, including St. Louis, which dipped to 85 degrees to mark the second warmest low on record there if it holds.
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