Summer swelter: Persistent heat wave breaks records, spirits

Summer swelter: Persistent heat wave breaks records, spirits

(AP) — From the normally chilly Russian Arctic to the traditionally sweltering American South, big swaths of the Northern Hemisphere continued to sizzle with extreme heat as the start of summer more resembled the dog days of August with parts of China and Japan setting all-time heat records Friday.
In the United States, a heat dome of triple-digit temperatures in many places combined with high…

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