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The Nome Nugget
Nome, Nome County, Alaska
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A major heat wave struck central US on Tuesday, with temperatures exceeding 100 degrees from the Rockies to the Great Lakes, setting records on Monday and causing at least eight deaths. Power overloads and hospital issues reported in affected areas.
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The biggest heat wave so far this summer baked central sections of the nation Tuesday with little real relief in sight.
At least eight deaths were attributed to the heat.
The mercury zoomed to an unofficial oven-like 121 degrees in Pittsburgh, Kansas, Monday and plus 100-degree readings were common from the Rockies eastward to the Great Lakes.
In Kansas City, where the temperature reached 109, so many people turned on their air conditioners that power lines became overloaded.
Nurses at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Granite City, Ill., where the temperature in hospital rooms reached 105, had trouble with their clinical thermometers. One nurse cooled hers to 98 degrees in an air conditioned room, only to have it shoot to 105 again before she could get back to her patient.
These all-time high heat records were set Monday:
Columbia, Mo., 113; Springfield, Mo., 108; Rapid City, S.D. 109; Dallas, Tex., 110.3; Oklahoma City, 107; and Casper, Wyo 104.
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Central Sections Of The Nation
Event Date
Tuesday
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at least eight deaths attributed to the heat; all-time high temperature records set monday in columbia mo. 113, springfield mo. 108, rapid city s.d. 109, dallas tex. 110.3, oklahoma city 107, casper wyo 104; power lines overloaded in kansas city; hospital room temperatures reached 105 in granite city ill.
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The biggest heat wave so far this summer baked central sections of the nation Tuesday with little real relief in sight. The mercury zoomed to an unofficial oven-like 121 degrees in Pittsburgh Kansas Monday and plus 100-degree readings were common from the Rockies eastward to the Great Lakes. In Kansas City where the temperature reached 109 so many people turned on their air conditioners that power lines became overloaded. Nurses at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Granite City Ill. where the temperature in hospital rooms reached 105 had trouble with their clinical thermometers. One nurse cooled hers to 98 degrees in an air conditioned room only to have it shoot to 105 again before she could get back to her patient.