Around the same time as the heat starts blasting Phoenix, the polar vortex — a system that usually keeps frigid air penned up near the North Pole — is forecast to send its chill deep into the Midwest and East, even bordering some of the Southeast, Maue said

Several daily high temperature records or even March records could be broken this week as an unusually early heatwave settles over the Southwest.

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Meteorologists are reaching for superlatives to describe an oncoming heat wave so intense and rare for this time of year that it could leave some locations shattering their all-time temperature records for April before that month has even begun.

A dangerous heat wave in Southern California is expected to send temperatures soaring this week — and meteorologists say the unusual early-season heat could break multiple records. According to the

The heat wave about to batter Southern California could be the “most extraordinary” in history, an expert has warned. “It’s hard to put into words just how extreme the heatwave coming to California and the Western U.

Meteorologists are not mincing words in their forecasts for record-high temperatures in California and the desert Southwest.