July 2026 Is Likely America's Hottest Month Ever: New Dome Hits West

Fuente: International Business Times

People jump on water-soaked pavement around an open fire hydrant at sunset in the Hamilton Heights neighborhood of the Manhattan borough of New York City on July 2, 2026, during a heatwave. Blistering temperatures and humidity gripped swaths of the United States on July 1. "Heat dome" conditions -- in which high-pressure systems trap warm air like the lid on a pot -- persisted over the Midwest and South and were moving east, with some 46 million people under heat alerts.