The temperature in Phoenix beat a record of 10 years of 116 for the city, where approximately 4,000 households in the metropolitan area were without power - and cooling - after a monsoon brought gusts of wind that toppled power lines.
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio ordered thousands of bags of ice from outdoor county prisons, saying detainees could be as much as they want and for any use - including to sit.
Santa Barbara County provided cooling centers in libraries, senior centers and other community facilities in seven cities.
Temperatures have been should continue Sunday, remaining in the hundreds, with parts of the Southwest push above 110 degrees, according to Associated Press. The temperature of the human body is about 98 degrees.
The National Weather Service has issued notices of heat for the San Francisco Bay area and parts of Illinois and Missouri.
The view of the Bay area has warned the elderly, very young children and the infirm to avoid to spend too much time outside.
He said: "people who enter this deadline should be particularly careful drinking plenty of water and in seeking a cooler place for the day, if no air conditioning is available in your home".
The notice must be in effect from noon to 9 p.m. PT Sunday, with temperatures should range from the 1990s to 105.
Illinois and Missouri heat advisory was in effect until 7 pm CT. temperatures were expected to reach about 100 for the fourth straight day, the NWS said would be more chance of diseases related to the heat because of the cumulative effect.
In the Valley of death in 120
The Weather Channel has reported that temperatures may be up to 15 degrees above the average in some parts of the Southwest, with peaks during the day in the 1990s in central and Eastern Montana more than 120 degrees in the Valley of the death of California.
Temperatures were expected to range of 90 higher at more than 100 degrees of the lower Valley of the Mississippi River to the plains of the South, said the Weather Channel.
He warned the isolated thunderstorms will begin to develop mountains of Southern California, parts of Colorado, New-Mexico, Utah and Arizona, where a large forest fire has been burning days, threatening Los Alamos nuclear laboratory.
"Some of these storms may produce damaging wind gusts in Arizona." "Unfortunately, the lightning could ignite more fires," said Mark Ressler, lead to the weather channel meteorologist.
He also said thunderstorms have been planned on Montana and "could well severe with large hail and damaging wind gusts.".
Skiers in a bikini
Among the warnings and the fear that the heat could make people sick, skiers have donned shorts, bikini tops and Hawaiian shirts.
Ski resorts from California to Colorado opened for the weekend to take advantage of an unusual combination of persistent snow dense of the end of season storms in the Sierra Nevada and the Rocky Mountains and a high pressure system in the hot air from the East.
Resort operators were reporting large crowds, mild temperatures and a lot of bare skin.
I've seen swimwear, funny costumes such as Hawaiian skirts and pants in silver sequins. "Shorts are very standard today," said Rachael Woods, a spokesman for Alpine meadows in California, which offered the independence day skiing than any other time in its 50 year history. "People are coming on the slopes and wear flip-flops.".
The weather at the base of the mountain was in the top 50.
The Snowbirds and Summer Resort, Utah, ski 783 inches of snow this season broke the old record of 688 inches set in the winter of 1983-84.
At the time that the station closes for the season after the Monday holiday, it has been opened a record 202 days.
Colorado Arapahoe Basin ski resort has attracted more than 1,500 skiers and snowboarders Saturday - about half as many people as a regular season of weekend day, said spokeswoman Leigh Hierholzer.
The resort, located 70 kilometres west of Denver, last offered skiing July Fourth weekend in 1997, she said.
Weather conditions helped some of the skiers more adventurous in Arapahoe to try and "pond skimming", a mixture of snow skiing and water skiing in which someone picks up that much speed can you you enfonces and then attempts the coast on top of a Lake added.
Child tue storm
In Wisconsin, an 11 year old girl was killed and 39 others were injured when a violent storm swept through a rural county packed with holiday campers, toppling hundreds of trees and leaving several thousand utility customers without power.
The authorities said most of those injured in the County of Burnett were treated and released, but three were in a State criticism Saturday night.
High winds pole boats in the area and blew on the shore, while a hangar of the airport in neighbouring Douglas County collapsed on a single-engine aircraft.
The storm came in one of the worst moments of the year for rural Burnett County: has been long weekend, when the region of lakes and rivers attract tens of thousands of visitors, said Rhonda Reynolds, a Regional Director for the Wisconsin emergency management.
The population of the County is 17,000, she said, but the long end of week attracted approximately 80,000 visitors to the County 90 kilometres northeast of Minneapolis.
This section includes reports from the Associated Press and The Weather Channel.
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