Kentucky Heat Wave

• Temperatures topped 100 degrees across Kentucky on Thursday as the state sizzled from a record-busting heat wave that compounded the misery of a worsening drought thats wilting crops and boosting the risk of wildfires.
(AP - msnbc.com)
• LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky will bake under a heat wave so intense its stopping the horses from running at Churchill Downs. And combined with dry conditions, its silencing fireworks in some areas.
(Huffington Post)
• heat promises to stretch from western Kentucky to the Carolinas where the Weather Channel projects all-time record highs will be threatened. For Washington, D.C.
(Washington Post)
• Temperatures topped 100 degrees across much of Kentucky on Thursday as the state sizzled from a heat wave that compounded the misery of a worsening drought thats wilting crops and boosting the risk of wildfires.
(msnbc.com)
• LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Temperatures topped 100 degrees across Kentucky on Thursday as the state sizzled from a record-busting heat wave that compoun LOUISVILLE, Ky.
(Huffington Post)
• Frankfort and the rest of Kentucky will bake under a heat wave so intense it's stopping the horses from running at Churchill Downs. And combined with dry conditions, it's silencing fireworks in some places.
(The State-Journal)
• LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The heat wave that forecasters say will bake Kentucky is expected to be so intense it's stopping the horses from running at Churchill Downs. And combined with dry conditions, it's silencing fireworks in some areas.
(Evansville Courier-Press)
• LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - The combination of extreme heat and drought is raising anxiety levels about water supplies in Kentucky as demand grows to keep lawns green and gardens producing. The state says no water systems are experiencing water supply shortages.
(Wave 3)
• With the current heat wave blanketing most parts of the country, temperatures in vehicles can easily top 140 degrees. The result is usually hyperthermia.
(Examiner)
• LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Temperatures topped 100 degrees across much of Kentucky on Thursday as the state sizzled from a heat wave that compounded the misery of a worsening drought thats wilting crops and boosting the risk of wildfires.
(Greenfield Daily Reporter)