A massive high-pressure system known as a heat dome that has stalled over the U.S. Southwest was pushing temperatures in the region well above 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celsius) on Thursday (June 7), leaving millions of Americans to swelter in the coming days. - REUTERS
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00:00It's a dry heat, it pretty much feels like you're in an oven.
00:15Like if you set your oven to 120 degrees and then you just open it and stuck your head
00:19in it, that's Arizona.
00:20It's dry, it's minimal humidity, you know, it's really no escape in it.
00:24At first like you start to feel like kind of tired and then you're sweating and then
00:28eventually like you kind of start, I don't know, like feeling a little, sometimes queasy
00:32depending on the type of person, but usually you kind of just like start feeling sick and
00:36then eventually you're on the floor if you don't go and do something about it.
00:39It's really hot.
00:41Sometimes if you go outside you feel like you can't breathe, to me it's unbearable.