News outlets report temperatures well above the 90s and inching towards triple digits that are twenty degrees higher than normal.

On a typical day at about this time of June, it would be in the relatively calm and cool mid-70s. Instead, however, area residents are enduring what feels like an unexpected blast of summer in the Arizona desert.

Make sure to take the weather situation under advisement if you’re supposed to travel to Boston or New England in the next day or so. The Weather Channel predicts the temperature will become more agreeable by Wednesday, provided that the forecasters have gotten the facts and figures right.

A video follows the jump that discusses the widespread impact of the current extreme weather, which has ranged from drains on electricity to air quality concerns to a drowning.

NOTE: If you require closed captions, you can enable that feature on the video players by clicking the CC symbol in the top right-hand corner.

Post from: The Boston Traveler