“This chaos is our reality right now.”
were without power, including two regions in the central part of the state with nearly county-wide electric outages.
The intense heat dome is expected to continue into the remainder of the week, and possibly into the Fourth of July holiday. According to the New York Times, this heat dome is the result of a high-pressure ridge in the atmosphere. NOAA’s weather prediction centerthat “there is really no end in sight for the excessive heat that has plagued particularly Texas/southeastern New Mexico in recent days.
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