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Published on 24 July, 2011
ന്യൂയോര്‍ക്കില്‍ കടുത്ത ചൂട്‌
The temperature climbed to 104 in New York City — 2 degrees shy of the city’s record — and 108 in Newark, the highest temperature ever recorded there, as a heat wave around the region intensified on Friday afternoon.

It was 2:10 p.m. when the temperature in Central Park reached 104 degrees, soaring past the local record for July 22, set at 101 degrees in 1957, and getting close to 106, the city record, which was last reached in 1936. (The last time it was 104 was in July 1977.) The record temperature in Newark had been 105 degrees, set in 2001.

On Friday, according to the National Weather Service, it felt like 112 degrees in New York City.

To those out in the streets, it felt more like being licked by a big, swampy monster.

A punishing wave of heat and humidity continued its hold over a large part of the country on Saturday, raising the toll of heat-related deaths even as forecasters promised that relief, in the form of cooler air from Canada, would arrive Sunday.

From the Midwest to the Eastern Seaboard, it was as if the earth had broken its orbit and veered closer to the sun, with millions of Americans stepping outside on Saturday into temperatures that steadily climbed toward triple digits.

That, combined with the unrelenting humidity, pushed the heat index on Saturday afternoon toward a staggering 120 degrees in Washington and 105 to 115 degrees in New York, Philadelphia and other cities in the Northeast.

The National Weather Service said the mid-Atlantic could experience record high temperatures, including in Washington, where the thermometer hit 105 degrees at Dulles International Airport on Friday, the highest reading ever there.

In Central Park the mercury rose to 100 degrees on Saturday afternoon, breaking the previous record of 99 degrees set in 1991, and at Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington it hit 102 degrees, breaking the previous daily record set in 1991, said Christopher Vaccaro, a spokesman for the weather service.

It was enough to make the high temperatures forecast for Sunday in some parts of the country — 90 in New York, 95 in Washington and 90 in Chicago — sound almost pleasant.

Across the Midwest and the Plains, the authorities urged people to take precautions and tried to cope with a growing death toll. The National Weather Service had noted at least 33 heat-related deaths nationwide, and several cities and states were reporting new numbers throughout Saturday. Officials in Chicago said they had confirmed at least six heat-related deaths, Missouri authorities reported more than a dozen and health officials in Tennessee said they had confirmed at least four.

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