A searing heat wave has pushed temperatures to record highs in recent days in several cities in South and West Texas, prompting health advisories and pleas for energy conservation.
Readings in Laredo, Del Rio, San Angelo and Junction were the highest ever recorded, according to the National Weather Service.
Corpus Christi logged an unprecedented 125-degree heat index — a combined measurement of temperature and humidity — on Saturday, said Liz Sommerville, the service’s lead forecaster there.
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