A punishing heat wave will bring hot temperatures to eastern US and linger for several days, underscoring how climate change heats things up.

The soupy, smothering extreme heat that has scorched parts of the Northern Hemisphere this summer takes a hard toll on our bodies. It can make you feel nauseous, woozy and dehydrated. It can have pernicious health effects on multiple organs. But there’s another, less well-known, impact of extreme heat: It makes you age faster.

Aside from an isolated shower or storm mainly South of I-88, most in the Stateline should stay dry this evening. Temperatures will gradually fall to the low 70s, meeting the dew point under a calm wind.

For people under the sweltering influence of a heat dome, the weather pattern can be excruciatingly tedious to endure, Jackson told Scientific American. “Heat domes are generally slow to form and slow to dissipate,” he said.

Sunday’s card was rescheduled to Friday and an additional race day was set for Friday, Aug. 8 at the Henderson, Ky. track

"Preventing heatstroke in dogs requires several proactive measures," Dr. Rebecca Tremble, a veterinarian, told Newsweek.

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