More than 265 million people are preparing for what will be the first major heat wave in the northeast of the country. The National Weather Service warned that, between Tuesday and Friday, much of the country will be affected by high temperatures that could pose a risk to residents of the states of Pennsylvania and Ohio:

Specifically, cities such as Philadelphia, Allentown and Reading could reach temperatures above 95ºF (equivalent to 32ºC) for the next five consecutive days. A streak that, the Weather Service in Mount Holly, New Jersey, stated, previously occurred in July 2022, July 2011 and August 1953:

High temperatures, CNN reports, will extend from the Great Lakes to the northeast, being especially intense this Wednesday and Thursday. Those two days, warns the National Meteorological System, will be the ones with the greatest heat, reaching dangerous levels in the areas of Chicago, St. Louis, Indianapolis, Detroit, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Boston, New York and Albany (NY):

New York activates the emergency plan in the face of the heat wave

These places are also not used to such high temperatures. For this reason, New York City activated an emergency plan for "dangerously high" heat. This was announced by the mayor of New York, Eric Adams, during a press conference this Monday:

This plan will include the opening of "cooling centers," spaces prepared for New Yorkers to take refuge from the heat during this week and where residents will be taught different mechanisms to combat high temperatures: