Newsweek - The federal National Weather Service has issued heat warnings, advisories and watches urging people in parts of 30 states to "stay out of the sun" due to soaring temperatures this weekend.
The NWS warns that "heat related illnesses increase significantly during extreme heat and high humidity events" and is urging people in impacted areas to "drink plenty of fluids, stay in an air-conditioned room, stay out of the sun, and check up on relatives and neighbors."
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a federal agency, between 2004 and 2018 an average of 702 heat-related deaths were recorded in the United States each year.
NWS extreme heat warnings have been issued for a swath of the Midwest including southern and central Minnesota, north-western Wisconsin, western Iowa, eastern Nebraska and south-eastern South Dakota.
These warnings also apply to parts of the U.S. East Coast including Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey out into Pennsylvania, as well as some counties on both sides of the Ohio/West Virginia border.
A small number of counties in south-western Illinois and eastern Missouri are also covered by extreme heat warnings.
Overall extreme heat warnings apply to parts of Wisconsin, Illinois, West Virginia, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota, Pennsylvania, New Mexico, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Minnesota.
The NWS warns of "dangerously hot conditions" with temperatures of up to 110 degrees in some areas. In some areas the warnings extend into Monday.
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