A child cools off in a water feature at a park in the Shaw neighbourhood during a heat wave in Washington, U.S., July 20, 2019. REUTERS/Eric Thayer
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A gargantuan heat wave hunkered down over the central and eastern United States on Saturday, sending residents to cooling centres and inflicting on Washington a heat index of 106 degrees F (41 C) with even steamier conditions in the forecast.
"It's pretty hot right now from the Plains states all the way through the Mississippi Valley to the East Coast," said Alex Lamers, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center.
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