New Jersey Heat Dome Suspected in 19 Deaths as Storms Cut Power to 900,000
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Updated · PBS NewsHour · Jul 5
New Jersey Heat Dome Suspected in 19 Deaths as Storms Cut Power to 900,000
3 articles · Updated · PBS NewsHour · Jul 5
Summary
New Jersey officials said at least 19 people are suspected to have died from the multiday heat wave, with cases emerging as early as Thursday and many victims found in homes without air conditioning.
104 F at LaGuardia, 105 F in Newark and 106 F in Atlantic City underscored the heat dome's intensity, while warm overnight lows limited recovery and increased physical stress.
900,000 utility customers across the central, eastern and southern U.S. were without power early Sunday after severe storms toppled poles and trees onto power lines; Michigan and Pennsylvania were among the hardest hit.
430 downed-wire reports in New York and more thunderstorms forecast from Cleveland into Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York point to continued outage risks and possible flash flooding even as the worst heat eases.