12:28 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nUS authorities have warned of a potentially deadly heatwave passing over the middle of the country.<\/p>\n
In swathes of the Mid-west the heat index – how the weather feels – was due to top 38C (100F), officials said.<\/p>\n
The heat and humidity made the air in Newton in the US state of Iowa feel 52C (126F), weathers reports said.<\/p>\n
The US National Weather Service warned of “the most significant heat wave the region has experienced in at least the last five years.”<\/p>\n
The “heat dome” of high air pressure, high temperatures and high humidity was expected to expand from the central mid-western core of the US outward, reaching the eastern US states by mid-week.<\/p>\n
“The combination of hot temperatures and high humidity will combine to create a dangerous situation in which heat illnesses are likely,” the National Weather Service warned.<\/p>\n
Afflicted states included Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and South and North Dakota.<\/p>\n
Authorities warned residents under the heat dome to drink plenty of fluids, stay in air conditioned spaces, out of the sun and to check on relatives and neighbours.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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