This Is the Hottest City in America Today

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This Is the Hottest City in America Today

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Temperatures across the world have set records this year. As the summer starts in the northern hemisphere, that will continue in such places as the United States, Canada, Europe, India and the Middle East. In parts of the United States, temperatures already have been over 100 degrees Fahrenheit several days in a row. And there are two more months of summer before Labor Day.
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Friday’s high temperature will be well above 100 degrees in Phoenix. The number at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport is expected to be just below 110 degrees, though it is still fairly early in the day.
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Phoenix had its first 100-degree day this year on May 7. On June 8, the city posted its first 110-degree day of the year. The city often goes for weeks without the daily high dropping below 100.

Other cities with extremely high temperatures are in a part of the country where these highs are “normal.” That includes Las Vegas, Tucson and parts of Texas.
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The anxiety about weather this summer is because 100-degree temperatures already have been posted as far north as Minneapolis. The term “heat dome” has become part of the American vocabulary. The National Ocean Service defines this as when “the scorching heat is ensnared in what is called a heat dome. This happens when strong, high-pressure atmospheric conditions combine with influences from La Niña, creating vast areas of sweltering heat that gets trapped under the high-pressure ‘dome’.”
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Phoenix may set an all-time high this summer. That means it will have to top the 122-degree record from June 26, 1990. It would be foolish to bet against it.

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About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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