Millions to spend Fourth of July under heat advisories

Kids play in the water to try and cool off in Alhambra, California.
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Heat advisories, warnings, and watches were in effect for 23 states east of the Rockies heading into the Fourth of July.

Nearly 80 million people were covered by the advisories and warnings on Tuesday, and it is expected to straddle 100 degrees again on Wednesday in many cities. The heat index, which measures what the temperature feels like with heat and humidity, reached 101 degrees in New York City, 102 degrees in Boston, 108 degrees in Washington, D.C., and 100 degrees in Oklahoma City on Tuesday.

A heat wave that is fueling wildfires on the West Coast is expected to push temperatures to 115 degrees in Phoenix on Thursday, and 101 degrees in Los Angeles on Friday. There are reports of at least eight heat-related deaths in Canada and the U.S. beginning last weekend, six of them in Montreal.

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Harold Maass, The Week US

Harold Maass is a contributing editor at The Week. He has been writing for The Week since the 2001 debut of the U.S. print edition and served as editor of TheWeek.com when it launched in 2008. Harold started his career as a newspaper reporter in South Florida and Haiti. He has previously worked for a variety of news outlets, including The Miami Herald, ABC News and Fox News, and for several years wrote a daily roundup of financial news for The Week and Yahoo Finance.