Heat dome that killed 61 in Mexico headed toward Southwest, bringing triple-digit temperatures

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   [More than 17 million people](https://weather.com/forecast/regional/video/dangerous-heat-dome-expands-over-the-west) risk exposure to dangerous temperatures thanks to a “heat dome” that has emerged in the western United States. Such a dome occurs when hot ocean air becomes trapped, forming something almost like a lid or cap that keeps temperatures broiling. Already this heat wave has been directly responsible for at least [61 deaths in Mexico](https://www.lemonde.fr/en/environment/article/2024/05/31/mexico-hit-with-relentless-deadly-heatwave_6673356_114.html), causing major power outages and [killing at least 150 monkeys](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/monkey-deaths-mexico-heat-dehydration/). Now it’s moving north.

2. air conditioning could’ve saves them. if only it wasn’t so demonized by the green crowd

3. White bulb heat domes coming soon.

4. I had never heard the term *heat dome* until it hit 108 F in my home of Seattle.  We’ve always had heat waves, but there have been a lot of historic ones lately.  Last summer we had heat domes covering entire continents. 

   There have been a lot more fires in the last several years vs when I was a kid.