Texas heat wave spreading to South, through July 4th holiday

And inside. And everywhere, all at once. A heat dome that’s scorching Texas and overburdening its power grid is expected to spill over to other parts of the U.S. in the coming week, across much of the South but will largely spare the Northeast. “Going forward, that heat is going to expand ... north to Kansas City and the entire state of Oklahoma, into the Mississippi Valley ... to the far western Florida Panhandle and parts of western Alabama” even as it remains over Texas, said National Weather Service lead...