Aaron one of those brutal summer heat waves is descending on the Midwest and the Great Lakes region again.

It seems like there's always a record setting heat wave somewhere in the US.

Yeah, 2024 is on track to be the hottest year on record beating out the current number one

2023. Wow, the climate's out here shattering records like Katie Lidecki.

With that in mind and with the air conditioner on full blast that makes me want to

ask.

Hot enough for you?

No, but close.

It's this in a world where extreme heat is becoming the norm.

Our cities literally and figuratively cooked.

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today is expected to be even hotter than

yesterday with the heat index well into the triple digits. Downtown commuters

shuffled down sizzling sidewalks yesterday, baseball fans arrived for the White Sox game with fluids in hand.

On the first day of the CPS school year, outdoor activities were moved indoors.

That was a clip from ABC7 Chicago discussing this week's heat wave in the windy city.

Max, I lived in Chicago for most of my 20s and I am sweating.

Just trying to imagine how like a treeless stretch of Milwaukee

Ave would feel in triple-digit temperatures I cannot imagine like breaking down

along the Dan Ryan. Oh, God.

Listen, I lived in Washington, D.C. for years, so in the summers it's just like, you don't

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