The National Meteorological Service Forecast Center at College Park, Maryland, said Monday that 107.5 million people will be affected by a combination of heat warnings, overheating warnings and overheating monitoring through Wednesday. The heat wave, which hit several record high temperatures in the West, Southwest and Denver over the weekend, moved east to parts of the Gulf Coast and Midwest Monday and will extend to the Great Lakes and east to the Carolina. Said the Meteorological Service. St. Louis, Memphis, Minneapolis and Tulsa are among the many cities subject to extreme heat warnings, with temperatures expected to reach around 38 degrees Celsius, accompanied by high humidity that could cause conditions to touch them. 43 degrees Fahrenheit Celsius). In Jackson, Mississippi, residents withstood temperatures that reached 95 degrees Fahrenheit (35 degrees Celsius) on Monday to complete their work. Roger Britt, 67, went to a neighborhood garden looking for vegetables for dinner. Britt believes the weather in Jackson has been more unpredictable in recent years. “It was so cold last winter, so I know it will be a hot summer,” he said. Several municipalities announced plans to open refrigeration centers, including Chicago, where officials began alerting residents Monday to where they could find relief from the heat. The city plans to open six social service centers on Tuesday and Wednesday, and said in a press release that people could also cool off in the city’s 75 public libraries. The city has stepped up efforts to respond to heat waves after more than 700 people, many of them elderly, died in a heat wave in 1995. The effort also comes after three women died in an elderly shelter during of a short-wave heatwave last month, raising concerns about the city’s ability to respond to the wild heat. In North Carolina’s Mecklenburg County, which includes Charlotte, the local government opened cooling stations and the area’s transportation system offered free rides to some of the locations. And in South Carolina, polling workers are preparing for one of the hottest days of Tuesday’s election, with high forecasts reaching 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celsius) and humidity making it feel closer to 110 ( 43 degrees Celsius). . Pollsters are trying to find ways to protect people who have to stand out to vote. A saving grace may be that turnout in by-elections is often much lower than in presidential elections. Another is that the state has allowed early voting for the first time and more than 110,000 ballots have already been cast. In Minneapolis, 14 schools that are not fully air-conditioned will turn to distance education on Tuesday, as the city prepares for temperatures in the 1990s. Schools were scheduled to end on June 10, but a three-week teachers’ strike in April pushed the final day to June 24, to make up for lost class time. The extreme heat pushed the same schools into distance education for three days during the last week of classes last year.
