That’s 10–20° hotter than normal for August.The heat builds midweek, peaks Thursday and Friday, and sticks around through the weekend. With dry air, fire risk also climbs across valleys and mountains.

State firefighting resources have been deployed in Los Angeles County ahead of a heat wave expected to increase fire damage across Southern California through the weekend.

Access to air-conditioned spaces is a key public health strategy amid worsening heat, but there are questions about how effective cooling centers are.

Across the inland valleys and in the mountains, meanwhile, the temperatures are likely to climb into the mid-90s to around 100 degrees or a little higher, according to meteorologists.

FOX 26's Jonathan Mejia was one of the few reporters who joined local and federal law enforcement as they tracked down fugitives in and around Conroe.

The fires have ravaged small, sparsely populated towns in the country's northwest, forcing locals in many cases to act as firefighters. About 2,382 square miles have burned across Spain and Portugal.

Triple-digit temperatures are expected to scorch parts of San Luis Obispo County this week, according to the latest forecast from the National Weather Service. The “kind of long duration heat wave” is set to last through Sunday and could result in record-setting temperatures, said Kristan Lund, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service.

Las Vegas faces extreme heat with advisories in effect, and potential monsoonal moisture bringing thunderstorms later in the week.