US schools sending students home for ‘heat days’. From the Northeast to the Midwest, extreme heat could bring temperatures as high as 105F (41C). Around 70 million in the US are living under heat alerts this week.

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1. Gabrielle Wessels was scrolling on Facebook on Wednesday when she came across a post from her children’s Orange County, New York, school district announcing early dismissals on Thursday and Friday because of extreme heat.

   “We have spent the day monitoring the temperatures in our buildings. We have determined that despite use of high powered fans to keep air flow going at all times, temperatures remain at an uncomfortable level,” the post from the Minisink Valley Central School District read.

   Students were dismissed early from middle and elementary schools.

   Gabrielle has two children who attend the district’s elementary school – Claire, 6, who is in kindergarten and Hunter, 11, who is in fifth grade.

   “I think that it’s necessary for them to let the kids out,” Ms Wessels told BBC News. “I don’t know how hot it gets in those classrooms and if someone is heat sensitive or prone to heat stroke, they definitely should be letting them out.”

2. I much prefer the snow days we used to have personally…..

   And aren’t schools out for summer vacation?