High Temperatures in Southwest and Midwest, Snow in Rockies

High Temperatures in Southwest and Midwest, Snow in Rockies
A boy cools off at a fountain outside Wrigley Field before a baseball game between the Chicago Cubs and St. Louis Cardinals as hot weather descends upon the Chicago area on June 16, 2024. Nam Y. Huh/AP Photo
The Associated Press
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PHOENIX—Extreme heat spread across Arizona, New Mexico and parts of Texas, Colorado, and Kansas on Sunday. There was unseasonable cold in the Pacific Northwest, snow headed to the northern Rocky Mountains and heavy rainfall forecast from the northern Plains to the Upper Midwest.

The National Weather Service estimated that more than 63 million people were under heat advisories on Sunday, stretching from the Southwest northward up through Denver and into Chicago.