Power use in Texas hit an all-time high, the state’s power authority said, and the blistering temperatures that prompted the usage surge will continue to scorch parts of the US -- putting nearly 90 million people under heat alerts.
Breaking news update, published at 10:57 a.m. ET] “I come to you with a heavy heart this morning. In the last eight days in our county, we’ve lost nine residents to this heat,” Webb County Medical Examiner Dr. Corinne Stern said at a commissioners court meeting Tuesday. [Previous story, published at 9:28 a.m.
Several daily high temperature records were broken or tied Tuesday in Texas, including at Houston Hobby Airport, Corpus Christi, Laredo and Del Rio. Del Rio hit 110 degrees, marking its 10th consecutive day of record highs. On Wednesday, 100-degree heat will spread northward into Oklahoma and Kansas, as well as eastward into Arkansas and Louisiana. Oklahoma City is expecting a record high of 106, the weather service said.
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