Meteorologist Ryan Maue reported about the warm weather prevailing all other the continental United States, in a tweet. Some meteorologists use the term ‘heat dome’ : a stationary mass of high-pressure air that is not getting dissipated as usual by the continental jet-stream.
Elsewhere on the planet, the hottest temperatures on record outside of Death Valley, California, have been recorded : 129 ºF (54ºC) in Kuwait and in Iraq.
