Excessive heat The forecasts said that the Central United States has many ripe this week.
More than 130 million Americans in at least 20 states are under heat alert on Thursday. Parts of midwests, including corn belt, have felt high temperatures for several days.
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The temperature on Thursday is estimated to be more than 10 to 15 degrees above the average of this time of the year, such as temperatures above the expected 100 degrees in many areas.
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Some parts of the Mississippi Valley will feel more than 90 degrees and the temperature of more than 100 degrees for at least a few days, even the heat dome runs in parts of the northeast.
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What is a heat dome?
A High dome It occurs when atmospheric science professor William Gallas is trapped in an area due to a continuous high pressure system at Iowa State University.
Heat domes can live from days to weeks and spread in many states.
Corn adds to sweat humidity
With excessive heat in the corn belt, a region, including the plains and parts of the Central Mississippi Valley, is known as an event Sweat Experts said that humidity has been made worse.
“The lower part of the leaves is holes,” Iowa State Climateologist Justin Glynson told Lana Zak, the national correspondent of CBS News. “And this is the place where oxygen has been released, but also water vapor.”
This process can connect up to 10 degrees temperature such as temperatures, as glyceon said, as only 1 acre may release 4,000 gallons of water in 4,000 gallons of water per day per day. Iowa has about 13 million acres of corn.
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