Hot take: Worcester hits 90
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Record-high temperatures have caused chaos on airlines this year with passengers vomiting, passing out, or being hospitalized due to extreme heat.
The calendar may say that it's meteorological fall, but Mother Nature has said otherwise in recent days, with a surge of extreme heat across much of the northern United States. Now, AccuWeather meteorologists say that rounds of thunderstorms, some severe, will ease the heat, bringing fall-like conditions. Much of the central Plains has been sweltering under prolonged heat for weeks, and the first days of September have been no exception. On Sunday, temperatures in Minneapolis surged to 98 degree
Labor Day weekend is finally here, and it's stacking up to be a sunny one. Higher temperatures are in store for the region through next week, too.
If global warming reaches or exceeds two degrees Celsius by 2100, it will lead to the deaths of roughly one billion, mainly poorer humans, over the next century, a study warned.