Temperatures across interior Southern California will climb dramatically as a prolonged heat wave begins Wednesday and could persist into next week.

A weak disturbance will continue moving inland from the Gulf Coast and interact with a frontal boundary extending from West Texas across North Texas.

Austin is facing another day of triple-digit heat with a high of 100 degrees predicted for Sunday, marking the 14th time the city has reached that temperature this year.

A heat wave hitting the West, sending temperatures soaring past the century mark, is expected to persist into the weekend, with the most intense and prolonged heat expected in the Desert Southwest.

This summer has felt cooler, even with a dozen days with triple-digit temperatures so far. But does it compare to some of the coolest summers ever?

The faster our world heats up, the faster the divide between the cooled and the cooked will widen. Ultimately, it is symptomatic of the larger injustice of the climate crisis, which is that the people who have done the least to cause it are the ones who will suffer the most from its impacts.

Extreme heat will continue to bear down over Southern California through the weekend. "This is so important." "This is the sign of a bad HOA." Two homes on the North Carolina Outer Banks sit precariously in the high waves with their days seemingly numbered.