• Dangerous Heat Building Middle to Late Next Week.

During the summer months, the National Weather Service in Las Vegas will be providing the attached Weekly HeatRisk Outlook for several locations across southern Nevada, southeastern California, and northwestern Arizona. This email will be sent each Thursday morning through the summer with the forecast HeatRisk through the next 7 days.

NWS HeatRisk is a color-numeric-based index that provides a forecast risk of heat-related impacts to occur over a 24-hour period. HeatRisk takes into consideration:

• How unusual the heat is for the time of the year.
• The duration of the heat, including both daytime and nighttime temperatures.

If those temperatures pose an elevated risk of heat-related impacts based on data from the CDC