Associated PressThe Pacific Northwest's deadly heat wave was as bizarre as it sounds, but it fits in with a long-standing pattern of uneven summer heating across the United States. An analysis of decades worth of U.S. summer weather data from The Associated Press has shown that the West is being roasted by warmer summer days, while the East Coast is being swamped with hotter and stickier nights. The average state temperature trends for 1990-2020 show that America's summer heat is increasing in places like California, Nevada and New Mexico.
