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(CNN) --
More than 85 million people are under excessive heat warnings or advisories for the next few days, from New Mexico to the Carolinas and from the Great Lakes to the Gulf Coast, the Center reported in recent hours. of Climate Prediction.
Cities with excessive heat advisories include St. Louis, Memphis and Minneapolis.
Chicago, Indianapolis, Nashville, Birmingham, Raleigh and Charlotte are under heat advisories.
"An early-season heat wave will continue this week, spreading from the Plains into the Midwest and Southeast," the Climate Prediction Center reported.
"To put this heat wave in perspective, there are entire summers in which an excessive heat warning has never been issued (3 of the last 10) for the Mid-South," tweeted the National Weather Service in Memphis.
"For years when an excessive heat warning was issued... the average date of the first warning... July 12."
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A "dangerous and deadly heat wave" is approaching the southwestern US, warns the National Weather Service
Well-above-normal temperatures are expected to break records in the first half of this week across much of the central US. Most of the record heat will be concentrated in the upper Mississippi Valley, western Los Angeles. Great Lakes, the Ohio Valley, and the southern Mid-Atlantic and Southeast on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Wind chill (how the temperature feels) is expected to easily reach 32 degrees Celsius.
Overnight low temperatures are also expected to be above normal, with over 21ºC and even 26ºC in some places.
These "warm lows will provide little relief from the heat overnight," the National Climate Center warned.
This heat wave is expected to persist to some extent through Thursday, with a pronounced cooling trend through the weekend.
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