STORY: :: Detroit braces for what could be its

worst heat wave in a decade

:: Temperatures are set to soar into the

mid to upper 90s Fahrenheit for five days

:: June 17, 2024

:: Detroit, Michigan

“I welcome the heat. It hasn’t impacted my daily routine in a negative way, gives me opportunity to get out and do some things in the yard and around the house. Also visit this lovely park.”

“I’m enjoying it, I like the heat. I just wish I had a pool to enjoy the heat more, but we decided to come to Belle Isle, where it’s nice and cool.”

“Well, I start thinking about like climate change, it’s a little concerning. But I can’t really think about that and get existential, I mean, I just I try to just tell myself it’s getting hot. I just live with it.”

:: The National Weather Service has issued

an excessive heat warning for Metro Detroit

The National Weather Service has issued an excessive heat warning for the Metro Detroit area, effective from Monday afternoon through Friday (June 21) evening. The intense heat may persist into the weekend as a relentless ‘heat dome’ envelops eastern United States.