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13 Dead as Heat Wave Broils US

Heat 'dome' creates pressure cooker-like conditions

By Evann Gastaldo,  Newser Staff

Posted Jul 20, 2011 7:41 AM CDT

(Newser) – The heat wave currently plaguing the US has broken more than 1,000 heat records and claimed 13 lives, the BBC reports. Eighteen states from Montana to West Virginia are under a National Weather Service heat advisory, with temperatures reaching more than 90 degrees in...   Read full story »

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