A brutal heat wave will continue to swelter from the Midwest to Northeast on Wednesday, set to break more record highs as millions take to the outdoors to mark the Juneteenth holiday.
Eleven cities either tied or hit record highs on Tuesday and the extreme heat triggered air quality alerts in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, New Hampshire and Ohio.
On Wednesday, 74 million people are under heat alerts, with the majority impacting Michigan to Maine, as temperatures 10 to 25 degrees above average soar into the upper 90s to low 100s.
Hartford, Connecticut; Cleveland, Ohio; Detroit, Michigan; and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; could set records for high temperatures.
Heat index readings are expected to “peak from 100 to 105 degrees in many locations,” the National Weather Service said.
Several parts of the Midwest, the interior Northeast and New England could reach temperatures of 95 degrees Fahrenheit or above Wednesday, with Bangor, Maine, set to hit 106 on the heat index, a measure of how hot it feels that factors in humidity.
