Parts Of South, Midwest Grapple With Dangerous Heat Wave

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August 12th, 2019

In Atlanta, Kai Frazier, a resident of Aiken, South Carolina, cools off Monday while playing in the Fountain of Rings in Centennial Olympic Park. More hot temperatures are in store for Tuesday, when heat and humidity will again make for dangerous heat indexes over a wide area of the U.S.

Andrea Smith / Associated Press

Updated at 7:15 a.m. Tuesday

Forecasters are warning about days of scorching, dangerous heat gripping a wide swath of the U.S. South and Midwest, where the heat index on Monday eclipsed 120 degrees in one town and climbed nearly that high in others.

With temperatures around 100 degrees at midday and “feels like” temperatures soaring even higher, parts of 13 states were under heat advisories, from Texas, Louisiana and Florida in the South to Missouri and Illinois in the Midwest, the National Weather Service reported.

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