Residents in the western U.S. are enduring a heat wave, with temperatures reaching dangerous levels across Washington, Oregon, Southern California, Nevada, and Arizona.

Several high school football teams across the West Coast delayed their season-opening games on Friday as a dangerous heat wave continued to grip the region. Schools from Northern California to Washington state pushed back kickoff times to protect players and fans from triple-digit temperatures that refused to relent into the evening hours.

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

Parts of the Bay Area were baking under triple-digit heat on Thursday, with at least seven cities notching new daily records, the National Weather Service said.

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.

Thunder and brief rain showers moved across parts of Los Angeles County on Saturday morning, surprising many as an extended heat wave continues through the weekend. The National Weather Service reported scattered,

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A recent heat wave is expected to increase fire behavior over the next few days as crews continue to battle the estimated 8,500-acre Bear Gulch Fire burning in Olympic National Forest and Olympic National Park, officials said Saturday.

Tonight’s sky will hide a rare surprise, but you’ll have to stay up pretty late to see it. A “Black Moon” will appear at around 2 a.m. EDT, which means it’s the third new moon in a season that has four. This only happens about every three years!