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The last holiday weekend of the summer will bring scorching temperatures to a large portion of the U.S. The last holiday weekend of the summer will bring scorching temperatures to a large portion of the U.S. Regions from the Great Plains to the Great Lakes and the Northeast will experience record heat starting Sunday and will last for the next several days. Beach goers crowd Montrose Beach along Lake Michigan, Aug. 23, 2023, in Chicago. Kiichiro Sato/AP, FILE The Northeast will see its first true heat wave of the year, with high temperatures in the 90s from Sunday through Thursday. This will be a significant change for metropolitan areas like New York City, which has only experienced stretches in the 90s for three consecutive days this year, none of which have occurred in the past month. Washington, D.C., is expected to reach near-record temperatures in the coming days and could reach up to 100 degrees on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. The highest temperature the nation's capital...

Ocean temperatures reached record-breaking highs for the month of May, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced. Scientists have gathered further evidence that ocean waters are continuing to warm along with the rest of the planet. Ocean temperatures reached record-breaking highs for the month of May, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced during its monthly climate call on Thursday. Ice chunks drifting in the Bothnia Gulf near the shore at the beginning of the spring, May 3, 2023. Olivier Morin/AFP via Getty Images Four main factors are contributing to such historic warming of global sea surface temperatures: human-induced climate change, a developing El Nino event, effects from the 2022 Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano eruption and a new shipping emissions policy aimed at reducing air pollution, said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles. Some regions are experiencing temperatures up to 7 degrees hig...