The Planet’s Strongest Heat Dome Will Soon Tower over the Rockies and Plains

It has been the summer of the heat dome.

Europe was hit by record-breaking heat events in May and June. Then, a slow-moving heat dome sizzled the northeastern U.S. in early July, toppling records. After that, another sprawling heat dome spiked temperatures to 115 degrees in Montana, breaking yet more records.

And now, another heat dome — predicted to strengthen Saturday into the most powerful one on the planet at that time — is threatening to break more records across the Plains and Rockies.

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