A historically intense and long-duration heat wave has spent weeks baking the South and Southwest, bringing dangerous triple-digit temperatures to 70 million Americans. Phoenix, at the epicenter, just logged its hottest month on record — and the hottest month ever observed in a U.S. city.
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Phoenix just posted the hottest month ever observed in a U.S. city
The metro of over 5 million people registered an average temperature — through days and nights — of 102.7 degrees and reached at least 110 degrees 30 times
August 1, 2023 at 9:36 a.m. EDT