The tremendous impact of extreme heat - a weather phenomenon that's killed more people in the US than any other - is revealed in new animated maps from that show how triple-digit weather spread and put 150 million people under warnings in July.Temperatures regularly topped 90 and 100 degrees, with Newark seeing a record-breaking five consecutive days of triple digit heat for the first time ever and states including and seeing spikes up to 115 degrees. Utah residents sweltered during a 16-day streak of temperatures over 100 degrees. Data from the and Prevention shows that extreme heat is the deadliest weather phenomenon in the country, killing more people each year than tornadoes, hurricanes or floods.
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